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{{outdated}}[[Category:Guides]]Here's the beginning of a list of stuff that your parents or some rich alum someone else already paid for(alphabetized).

* StaplersComputer classes: OCC[http://oit.williams.edu/oit/workshops/signup/ OIT] has classes from time to time. You can request particular classes. == Paper and Ink ==* Textbooks/other books! Every beginning of semester, especially the fall, underneath Stetson; anyone visiting gets a check out the free books table in the [[1914 Library]]. Even students not on financial aid can get free staplerbooks this way (although only students on financial aid can formally borrow from the 1914 Library). What's that? Your prof says you need the latest edition of this particular translation of Plato, even though it's gone through millenia of perfectly competent translations? Baloney. Hit the 1914.* PencilsVictoria's Secret (and other) catalogs: OCCMail trailer next to Lehman* CandyThe Wall Street Journal: Dean's OfficeHopkins, OCCthe mail trailer

* The Wall Street JournalOld course packets: Hopkins* Paper towels and liquid soap: a bathroom Easy to find at the end of the semester near recycling bins - you can often score the readings for that class you wanted to take but didn't have time. If you look hard enough around Stetson (new this year!below the level b/level d stairwell is a good bet), you can often find a few random packets. == Food == * Printing[[Paresky Center]]: Computer labs in SchowIf there is ever any food lying around on the tables right by the entrance to the building, Sawyerit's free! Take it, Jesup, Bronfman, Clarkeat it all, it's there because people didn't want it to go to waste.:* Super Stressbusters on Mondays of finals week each semester.:* Grab n' Go will always put their leftover desserts on the table downstairs next to the Paresky Auditorium* Candy: [[Dean'62 CTDs office]], Stetson, Goodrich[[registrar]], and numerous other places[[Office of Career Counseling|OCC]]. * Color printingCoffee: Between 3:25 PM and 3: Jesup30 PM (or when they run out), coffee is free at the [[Eco Cafe]].* CondomsBerries and vegetables: formerly when in Baxter basement - does anyone know where Peer Health is now?season in the [[Forest Garden]], between [[Stetson]] and [[Center for Environmental Studies|CES]].* Victoria's Secret ([[Physics]] [[common room]]: After colloquia but before students show up to work on [[problem set|problem sets]]. <del>Tuesday and other) catalogs</del> Friday at 3: Mail trailer next 30. Also has hot chocolate packets and hot water, but leave some change every so often to Lehmankeep the golden goose laying.* BindingMonday at 10: not actually free00, Computer Science Snacks, costs which you can really make a dollar dinner out of if you try. * Wednesday 6:30 PM, [[JRC]]: Dinner discussion (or two at Office Services movie)* Wednesday 9-10 PM, BioSnacks in the biology building lobby, hosted by the [[Biology Majors Advisory Committee]] (BMAC)!* Friday, 7 PM, JRC: [[Shabbat]] dinner* Cookies, soda, and juice following [[Math]] [[colloquia]] in Stetson[[Bronfman]] 106* ScanningDinner: First Monday of the month, DVD burningMath-Stats dinner at the dining hall, free even without a meal plan if you walk in with a professor ==Software== See [http://www.fsf.org The Free Software Foundation] or [http://www.opensource.org The Open Source Initiative] for the why. [http://www.opensourcemac.org Open Source Mac] maintains a list of superb free software and open source software for Macs. [http://www.sourceforge.net SourceForge.net] provides all of the open source PC software you can think of. [[How to migrate to Linux|Linux]] is not only free as in speech and free as in beer, video copying it's free as in takes-up-all-your-free-time. ==Miscellaneous== * Condoms: the health center and editingPeer Health in upper Paresky* Light Bulbs - B&G, just ask your custodian, and they'll supply incandescent replacement bulbs.* Log Cabin - free for any other multimedia needsWilliams Outing Club members to reserve for one night.* Massages - ACE Stressbusters: Wednesday night, from 7-9pm, come at 6: Jesup 45pm to sign up, hot chocolate, coffee, tea and as soon as the Goodrich coffee bar gets their stuff together, cookies, will also be provided for free.* Media Studioequipment (Cameras, external hard drives, camcorders and more) for rental: There's an equipment rental room on the second floor of Sawyer that will give you pretty much everything. We provide * Movies (VHS and DVD) and music CDs can be borrowed for free from the equipment Williamstown Public Library located across the street from the Williamstown Inn. Bring your student ID and get a library card.* Paper towels and some technical support; liquid soap: a bathroom near you* Cross-country skis, sleds, snowshoes, sleeping bags, etc., can be borrowed for free from the WOC Equipment Room if you have to do the work a Williams Outing Club membership card. You can join for $10--equipment borrowing is unlimited. The equipment room is located downstairs in [[Paresky]].* Squash rackets and provide media basketballs (like DVDs, tapes, and photo paperprobably other equipment) yourselfcan be borrowed from the Equipment Room in Lasell/Chandler.