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 You can also participate in SIPB activities like hackathons,
 [cluedumps](http://cluedumps.mit.edu/), and [IAP
-classes](http://sipb.mit.edu/iap). Our [[calendar]] contains the many of our
+classes](http://sipb.mit.edu/iap). Our [[calendar]] contains many of our
 events.
 
 ### "Furthering the Goals of SIPB"
 
-"Furthering the Goals of SIPB", or FTGOSing, usually means working on some SIPB
-[[projects]].
+"Furthering the Goals of SIPB", or FTGOSing, usually means **working on some SIPB
+[[projects]]**.
 
 Our technical [[projects]] can generally absorb arbitrary amounts of attention. If
 you are already familiar with the relevant skills, you may be able to find the
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ progress to the SIPB.  The most successful SIPB projects have often been things
 that the people involved really wanted to do, and found resources or
 collaborators to do them through SIPB.
 
-#### One route
+### A possible route
 
-One possible way to get involved is:
+There are many possible ways to get involved in SIPB, but one route is:
 
 1. Take a look at the [[Projects]] page, and identify a project that looks
 interesting.
@@ -65,9 +65,11 @@ ticket is best to start with and how to implement it.
 5. Code your thing, and talk to somebody involved in the project to get it
 committed.
 
-You probably can't do all of that on your own. Feel free to talk to people
-around SIPB about each of those steps, and somebody will probably be happy to
-help you through them.
+If you follow something like this process and get some contributions into some
+SIPB project, you're probably doing fine at FTGOS. You probably can't do all of
+that on your own, though. That's fine, since you also need to get socially
+integrated. Feel free to talk to people around SIPB about each of those steps,
+and somebody will probably be happy to help you through them.
 
 ## The office