Just when you thought the academic year didn’t run long enough, Leap Day today gives us all a bonus spot on the calendar. But it’s not all bad. We here at the ol’ Free Press dreamed up some other bonuses that only come around once in a blue moon.

Late Nite added new salad and seafood options this week and slashed prices for everything from fried cheese to pizza pockets. As an added bonus, the e. coli is still free.

House Speaker Sal DiMasi got one more day this year to accomplish his broad agenda — plus an extra day on the links with lobbyists.

CGS continues preparing the class of ’08 for two more years of college. The bonus prize this week is a fresh pack of scratch-and-sniff stickers.

BU posted a $1.1 billion endowment last year — in other words, there’s a fat bonus for the next leader the trustees decide to pay not to work.

Double bonus: President Brown adds $200 to the endowment every time he passes Go.

Today is the date when women can traditionally ask men to marry them. Bonus for BU’s female population: none.

Hundreds of revelers rocked out to their iPods in a massive Silent Dance Party. Any socially normal interaction is a bonus for Helen Keller.

The Education Resource Center has a Leap Day bonus – extra tutors!

JuicyCampus.com posts salacious tidbits detailing which sorority is the most promiscuous and which frat is the lamest. The Free Press benefits from this new, lowered standard of accuracy and ethics.