Stacks you are one cruel man, I like it.

Personally, I tried the whole freeroll route being a poor student and I think its very frustrating, slow, luck based and teaches you bad things about poker play in general.

As others have said, pony up 50$ and pop it on stars, or Full Tilt for the take 2 promotion, make sure beforehand you get a rakeback deal. (very important)

Its really worth just making a deposit.