Apart from the whole expanding horizons, better career prospects business one of the advantages of student-hood is, in theory, all the free things you get.
Except the NUS card that you get free is pretty much only accepted as discount at Dorothy Perkins and the odd branch of other shops where the staff are nice enough to ignore the rules. Because what you need is the NUS Extra card. Which isn't free. Its 11£. Which seems an awful lot to me if you don't regularly eat 25£ worth of Domino's pizza, fit in anything they sell at Miss Selfridge and are far too geeky to think spending 30£ on a haircut reasonable. So the only reason this scruffy haired gal who hasn't fit in anything they sell at Miss Selfridge since she was about 12 is getting one is because it comes free with the bank account. Which is a reasonable perk of student-hood.
There's plenty you can shop around and some let you have it even before university (I'm with Lloyd'sTSB and they let you start it in Access year). And they have freebies! So with mine I got some MP3s and a speaker, the Extra card and, to the great amusement of those that know me best, a YHA membership. The freebies probably aren't the best thing to look for an account on, but they can be useful (probably more useful if I could actually see myself holidaying in a barn, but hey ho).
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