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вЂMassachvsetts Institvte of TechnologyвЂ™ is held onto the Dome by screws that symbolize how students feel about the rigorous academics they endure. On the top of the Dome is our class number, 141, in binary. The Dome, in all its grandeur, is where we first congregated for our class picture and is where we will come together once again to graduate. Its head-on view is inspired by the original 1930s class ring. вЂњThe focus of the Class Shank is the Great Dome. Next, the class shank was revealed: (from the official Brass Rat website) The first designs were that of the skylines (on the sides of the ring) and hackerвЂ™s map (on the inside.) The ceremony began with some speeches and a history of the Brass Rat.

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Admittedly, this line partially formed because the first 300 in line got a free Ring Premiere t-shirt and shot glass (for apple juice, of course, MIT would never promote drinking.) At 7:00 PM, we were finally allowed inside.

There was a huge line of people waiting (and shivering) outside of KresgeвЂ™s doors. Ring Premiere was tonight, in Kresge Auditorium. Though some aspects of the ring always appear by tradition, the Ring Committee works in secrecy and shares their design at the Ring Premiere. The beaver is noted for his engineering and mechanical skills and habits of industry. The beaver not only typifies the Tech, but his habits are peculiarly our own. HornadayвЂ™s book on the animals of North America and instantly chose the beaver. But neither of these were American animals. He is wise, patient, strong, hard working, and like all those who graduate from Tech, has a good tough hide.

вЂњWe first thought of the kangaroo which, like Tech, goes forward by leaps and bounds. Brigham Allen proposed the beaver as the official mascot: This has been an MIT tradition since 1929, which was also when Class President C. Just kidding! (вЂll be here all week, bah dam ching!) But, in all seriousness, the Ring Committee really played a prank on us this year.ДЄctually, the Brass Rat is one of the most recognized rings in the world (and no animals were harmed in the manufacturing process.) Every year, a group of sophomores, formally known as the Ring Committee, are chosen to redesign the ring and add little details that recall memories from the sophomore classвЂ™ first two years at the вЂTute. To draw attention to this ever-growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be brass plated in the MIT Lab for Metallurgy. Brass Rat? ThatвЂ™s right, MIT has really dreadful rodent problem.

As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling of 2008 Brass Rat.