<p>I was looking up T-Pass rates and it said that in order to be elligible for a discount, you have to be a registered student with a busar account… What the heck is that an how do you get one? </p>
<p>Thanks and sorry if this is a dumb question…</p>
<p>I believe you’ll still be getting a t pass embedded in your MIT ID card. In which case you should be getting the student discount without having to do anything but have your ID.</p>
<p>And I believe the term you are looking for is bursar: [Bursar</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursar]Bursar”>Bursar - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>A Bursar account is basically the account you get tuition charged to and you pay off. You’ll get one as part of being a student, there’s no special magic there :)</p>
<p>Ok, yay! I feel better now :D</p>
<p>They phased out charliecards embedded in student IDs 
- I had one last year but my replacement this year lacked one and they told me the experiment had ended. In neither case was it paid for, I had to fill it on my own; if you ordered a student monthly pass it came on a <em>separate</em> charliecard that would conflict with a student id with an embedded charliecard. It’s definitely half-baked IMHO :/</p>
<p>Anyways, summary - you pick up the pass monthly or quarterly, it comes on a separate charliecard. At least, that’s what I’ve most recently observed to be the procedure.</p>
<p>Incidentally, although MIT offers T passes at a 50% discount, it’s probably not worth getting a monthly pass unless you plan to take the T at least three or four times a week. </p>
<p>If you’re living on campus and taking the T only on weekends, a monthly pass is almost certainly not worth the $30 a month.</p>
<p>The per-ride student discount for the T only applies if you’re in high school or younger, by the way. MIT just subsidizes T passes for current students.</p>