The class ring of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, USA. Of gold alloy, it bears a relief representation of the school's mascot, the beaver, chosen because it is an engineering animal.
I saw more than one brass rat at the Stanford Hillel. Evidently a lot of Jewish MIT graduates end up doing work at Stanford.
by Leslie Doppler May 23, 2010
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