T-Shirt Day

I think it wasn't too long ago that people found this out: a great way to promote an event or to bring people together is to make a t-shirt out of it and sell it for cheap. If you do too much of that, I guess we'd get into what I'd like to call the "been there, done that, got the t-shirt" phenomenon. However, while you're still in college (like me), the prospect of getting some new and clever t-shirts for cheap is very encouraging. I mean, if you get enough of these cheap shirts, that could delay laundry by at least another week, right? I think so.

With that in mind, I've positioned myself to make today and Friday an official T-shirt gathering period. Gina and I picked up our free Nonsmoking Hokie shirts from the Health Center this afternoon, and I'm poised to grab one of the last, coveted "ISE: Imagine Me As Your Boss" tees. I already bought the Orange Effect 2004 shirt for $5, and I got a free "IR Hires Hokies" from the Ingersoll-Rand booth at Engineering Expo. One other that I know about is the College of Engineering's annual shirt design. This would be my first t-shirt buying experience with the college, but since the shirts are usually just goofy enough so that only engineers would get the jokes, I think I'll hop on board with them this year. To tell the truth, the only shirts I've passed up on are the ones where you have to sign your soul away with a credit card application before you can get it. No thanks.

Cheap t-shirts with no strings attached are a great thing. So grab a drink of your choice and raise it to the cheap logo shirt, for without them, our washers and dryers and other assorted laundry equipment would be working overtime.