MIT Coop

Typical…

Pretty good selection, lots of brands… Not huge but a good size.

Great place for tourists to find anything Cambridge/​Boston to take home to Middle America. Decent book store. Kinda pricey. But somewhere to kill time on my lunch break.

The «coop» sells candy, and honestly, for workers in the area… this is pretty much all we care about.
How much is their candy? A little bit above average pricing. Also known as, convenient rip-​off.
After I picked up my $ 2 snicker bar the customer in line ahead of me wanted socks. I think they cost him about $ 20 dollars.
And oh, the books… not much to be desired. Maybe if you need an MIT keychain you could succeed at purchasing something worth while.

This is THE place to get MIT merchandise. The lineup of sweatshirts is overwhelming.

Of course being an out of towner, i wanted 2 bring home some gifts!
We ended up here 4 MIT merchandise. It was a friday morning.
I was already expecting high priced tees and souviners. you’re typical student store.
I bought 3 shirts, having a sale on buy one get another one ½ off.. .shirts range from $ 20 and up.. .
Selection was small.. .but found a cute shirts!
As I was checking out the cashier was funny and friendly.

Good selection, but overpriced.

Everything at the MIT Coop is overpriced, especially the notebooks. I would recommend going to University Stationery on Mass Ave instead, especially for students who can take advantage of the student discount. The Coop has a fairly good selection of books and MIT merchandise, but it’s not great. They don’t pay much for used books as well, so you’re better off selling your books to other students directly than through the Coop.

Another example of private schools privatizing their services to big corporations. Do not let the trendy, «Coop» title fool you… this is indeed a Barnes & Noble Bookstore. For MIT (and Harvard) contracting their business to a giant corporate entity — minus two stars.
Now, in terms of cleverness and satisfying wit… I’d give a five star review. Shirts with nifty mathematical and scientific equations… most referring to MIT. The MIT shirt bearing the formulas for M, I, and T in a row is awfully cool… as well as the kids’ «cutie [pi]» onesies.
IHTFP means «I hate this f’n place»… jsyk.
jsyk means «just so you know»… fyi
fyi means «for your information»… anyway…
Prices on clothing are the same as most college bookstores. The book selection is majorly toned down compared to the big B&N stores.
The MIT Coop — as long as you know you’re actually shopping at a big retailer, it’s quite a fun experience.

Great for MIT stuff of course and useful in a pinch for some random school supply needs.

The MIT Coop may be providing a valuable service by offering a place for me to go and let my rage dissipate during the workday.
They have a surprising array of tasty morsels, including up-​and-​coming specialty items (read: vegan, gluten-​free, otherwise weird, but tasty and interesting) I wouldn’t necessarily expect to find there. They also have travel packs of cereal. And a fairly admirable selection of chocolate (with the blemish of an entire Godiva section).
Most members of the staff are friendly and helpful and might warn you if some mints you’re considering buying taste oddly of anise.
The book section is small, but OK. Barnes-​and-​Noble-​y.

everything is ridiculously over-​priced, but there’s just something energizing about hitting up the coop on reg day with several hundred of your fellow classmates to get your textbooks… it’s just a ritual! a ritual that you don’t get when you buy your books on bigwords or any of those other textbook sites (i hardly remember what they were). also, the coop’s sales are a good place to pick up the necessary mit sweatshirts for every other third cousin once removed who ‘needs’ one :).

The only reason this location gets 4 stars is that it now carries architectural supplies. They have chipboard, corrogated cardboard, ink erasers, drafting tools, etc. Not the best prices but definitely the best location for MIT kids.