Amazon prime for college students.

Not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I just learned about it.

If you're a college student with a valid .edu email address, Amazon offers free Amazon Prime membership for 6 months and 1/2 off for the rest of your college time (up to 4 years I think.)

This gives you free 2 day shipping on a lot of items.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/student/signup/info

Another college perk is Microsoft academic alliance. After talking with our help desk (Penn State) I realized we participate in the academic alliance. This allows free Windows products. (Win 7,8 and office among others)

Just a FYI.

 

wow that is cool totally doing this thanks! The microsoft thing is called microsft dreamworks/dreamspark you get a key valid for 1 year every year you attend school

 

Amazon used to offer one year of Prime, when I was in my freshman year, but it's still nice.

MSDNAA perks depend per institution, based on what the university pays for, I suppose. At UCLA, the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences offers MSDNAA to those taking classes in the college, but Office is not included in UCLA's MSDNAA downloads.

 

we get up to office 2007 which i own. It comes with all OSes i think except one or two not surre been a couple months since i looked at it

 

I'm downloading win 7 64bit with sp1 now. I'll use it on my laptop.

Then I'll download office

 

Do you have to have Amazon Prime for the Microsoft Academic Alliance?

 

No. Amazon prime is for any college student. AA depends on your school. Contact your help desk to see if they participate.

 

its called dream spark and ti should be in your in schools online section. blackboard or something along those lines. Look into info where you sign in with your student account

 

I have both, and both are pretty awesome. The Student Prime thing is 6 months, and renewing the Prime membership is roughly $70/year (not sure if it's half off regular price). Or..... you can just take a class at a different institution, thus getting another .edu address, and sign up for another 6 months free Prime that way, like I did

You don't have to go to Blackboard, et. al. to register for Dreamspark. You should be able to search for your school on the Dreamspark website (if it's not on their list, your school isn't part of AA).

 

I found my school on it. There's nothing on it now (that I could use), but probably stuff I'll use later on in school.