Only one, but always different: The MIT Brass Rat

Each year, the MIT class ring, affectionately nicknamed the Brass Rat, is redesigned by a committee of 12 students from the second-year class. The committee is responsible for designing, premiering, selling, and delivering the ring to its class. Since its introduction in 1929, the Brass Rat has become a symbol of MIT, as well as one of the most recognizable rings worldwide. (Learn more about the ring: mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/...)
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[@lilella2562]

Every time I learn something new about MIT and the community and students, I want to attend even more.

[@calebalbiston8625]

Same! I'm the exact same!

[@alfredomeza3456]

Same

[@i2harry]

Feeling too old for this, so sad

[@fernandosalinas505]

Could you guys attend? Every time I start to see that goal further and further :(

[@elizabethr4107]

It's honestly the best. It will change yr life for the better. The benefits never end.

[@jan-hendriklange2161]

This is really a great tradition.

[@nathallama]

I literally learned about the brass rat yesterday! This is so cool, but the poor ring committee must have been so stressed about the details to make a great ring lol. Props to them and MIT for giving the experience!

[@nicholasn.2883]

They say if you can get 6 people together with this ring on, then you get the buff “Rat Pack x5”

[@elizabethr4107]

They sent me a giant paperweight sized one for my class reunion last year w exactly the same design as my class ring. It was such a nice touch

[@MenandroJose]

I love MIT i hope someday i will study here i'm at present learning scratch coding since i was 7yrs old

[@geoffreyhewitt182]

my cousin did research and taught their for 40 years and recently retired ; she is a brilliant person but her best quality is being humble her name is Nancy Hopkins

[@maggiejordan2638]

dream school

[@rahulranjan9013]

I only Imagine Tony Stark wearing it.

[@elizabethr4107]

It's in the film

[@gergc4871]

One of the few universities that isn't absolute garbage. We're proud of you grads.

[@elizabethr4107]

🥰🥰🥰 tysm

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

Reminds of the WWE hall of fame rings, superbowl rings. You need to create something like a symbol or coat arms to build a culture around.

[@yuuvraajjain779]

Can't wait to once wear and design MIT brass rat

[@luxurywatches3751]

I knew about the ring from Avengers Endgame. Look closely, you'll see Tony Stark wears it as well.

[@anjana8002]

OMG!!!!This is sooooo precious! ❤❤❤

[@tahiyatchy]

Bro the way that I’m not even kidding when I say I started tearing up 🙈

[@sam17577]

this is such a cute tradition 🥺🥺🥺

[@kollinw1352]

My man nico lookin fly

[@THEFINETECH]

Just let Johnny Dang handle it

[@andrewminty3250]

..that is cool..never knew about MIT.

[@physicsman3788]

I would like to get one

[@hansad.k6273]

Even tony stark has one, damn. just saw it in the first movie 2009.

[@pshdxt]

Avoid bad language

[@Isotope1213]

do grad students receive a ring?

[@AbhishekKumar51379]

Great👍

[@amezingweeder2939]

Does masters and phd student also get this at the end of their degree?

[@ozymandias5829]

Yes, its the grad rat, when you get your diplome your can ad MS or PHD on the ring

[@ShitWrangler]

I just bought Sam Bankman-Fried MIT rat ring for $30,000 CAD while he's on the lam

[@nomomon]

3:43 is that the 2021 ring in a 2019 video? -.-

[@elizabethr4107]

The rings are made 3 years before we graduate

[@jan-hendriklange2161]

Hello from South Africa.

[@anhdung_nguyen]

Is this ring for graduate students?

[@merrinvarkey4625]

Wow

[@mensaswede4028]

It's amazing what you can do when money is virtually infinite.

[@SagarKumar-nq3py]

How to contact with M.I.T

[@geoffrygifari4179]

my god it's the freemasons

[@ng3069]

Geoffry Gifari Don’t be ridiculous!

[@rsilvers129]

So sad that mine flew off my finger at the dump and searching did not locate it. I wish that I had a 3D model of it so I could resin-print a symbolic representation of it.

[@raguaviva]

you don't really need it, is what you can do what matters

[@raguaviva]

​@@ButterfatFarms not all feelings lead to a good path

[@elizabethr4107]

They can remake it for u. They keep all old designs.

[@sang84119]

Is that available on Thingiverse?

[@zeydalynn8634]

i doubt it, but you could make it in autocad with enough effort

[@l0uise317]

"It is with rattles that we lead men" Napoleon.

[@user-by8py4sk8p]

Best gift for someone

[@crazymemes4080]

Yeah

[@freemanguess8634]

Yeah the ai is getting good

[@ayermish]

Cough, cough. The skylines were added to the rings relatively recently. The "turning the ring around" tradition came from the idea that when you're an undergrad, when the beaver does what bears do in the woods, it lands on you, but when you graduate, well, it doesn't anymore (that's about as nicely as I can put it). Also, the ring committee used to have 9 members, a Tolkien joke. Traditions change and evolve over time, of course.

[@rsilvers129]

They know, of course, but it is not supposed to be said. Those who know are supposed to keep it a secret. Maybe delete this.

[@Mamolax3]

Yes, the saying was that before graduation the beaver s--ts on you, and after graduation it s--ts on everyone else. I don't know exactly when they added the Boston and Cambridge skylines to the Brass Rat (or the Silver Squirrel, if you ordered a silver version), but they weren't on the rings of those of us who attended MIT in the 1970s.

[@nonelvis]

@@Mamolax3 The skyline was first added by the class of 1990. (My roomie was on ring committee for that class.)

[@elizabethr4107]

It's been there since 1990. That's far from recent.

[@AveMaria1917]

MIT souls in purgatory, pray for me. Ora pro nobis ✨️

[@iharshgarg]

even tony stark wore it in movie

[@crazymemes4080]

I want to join mit

[@dimitar4y]

don't bother, it's a scam. a loosely helpful-to-you scam.

[@crazymemes4080]

@Basara yeah. i want to join MIT coz their ppls are very creative and innovative. btw from which country you are from? my friend

[@crazymemes4080]

@@dimitar4y ohk. btw u r from which country ? my friend :) facebook.com/amarnymous

[@crazymemes4080]

@Basara ok btw wt do u do?

[@theEVILonionRAT]

@@dimitar4y how?

[@mixermrtaco1132]

hey MIT, when im a sophomore please don't put me on this commission

[@tylerbarker4763]

alright 2seconds into this video, i can tell you guys need onyx or onyex in those rings, its avery important part to metals.. if there truly made of brass, your going to want some rubber or plastic material on them, alomst like stick on stuff . Brass is made to be in your pocket, on your finger its a little much, if your gonna go with brass you want something kinda heavy, aluiminum is better often, there many different combinations... but let me tell you this... Honestly, onxys, gold metal and silver... thats like a processor,, MIT you know how you guys do machine learning, maybe lace up a computer you use or the pentium thingy in it that makes it "think" so to speak, a onxy ring with gold an silver, an your choosing of emblem or whatever shape on it. This what you do, you buy a metal ring a "platform" put on you finger or thumb for awhile, look at or play with, decide or feel what you want on it...how you want it made.. Remeber this ring can do whatever you want it to, you building it, 200bucks you can get a pretty cool on made, shit ive yet to seen a chick with one, its kinda a all dude thing only in the past. But anyways, if your wonder why you see some people with a big ass ring that black in it or gold or you notice it. ( might be a lawyer, or attorney or something else maybe a grandfather)... " if your Wondering or notice it to remeber it, that means its working" it worked on you, its on you so to speak. top secret? hint hint Tin can be pretty cool, you gotta put it together with right thing TGB the way i mean it

[@ayermish]

"brass rat" is a joking term. They're traditionally made of gold, although some are made today of jewelry-grade stainless steel and other metals.

[@tylerbarker4763]

@@ayermish Yea well i work for the sisters now so go tons of hot chick and Purdue TGB the way i mean it

[@elizabethr4107]

Mine is 18k yellow gold. They r not actually brass.

[@Josh-lf8qi]

Just to be clear, all students get this?

[@elizabethr4107]

Yes

[@ajeetkumar-ky5ek]

21st century and 21st viewer

[@edgarstepanyan2586]

PLEASE ANSWER TO MY QUESTIONS. Hi, I am Edgar Stepanyan. I have several question about MIT (for starting my learning for quiz of MIT I have several question) ahead thank you. About me I was born in 1998. I have already gotten my studying in Politecnical University of Armenia in underaduation in an unit of mashinmaking. I learn excelent and i am getting ready to come to MIT as a satudnet Questions I do not have so much money for learning there in that form. I mostly would like to learn full free (will be a bit worse while I will start to have a job near MIT for peymant for studying). I would like to know whot exame I mast hand, whot result I must have in appraisal and where I must hand that the exame for free learning (for example I prafer in Armenia where there are two international centers for such exams). Now my goul is to be a student in graduation of MIT but full free and not to have leak of time on undergraduation. And whether there is an restriction about age of a student (what is a years old I must have). IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR MY PLEASE ANSWER TO MY QUESTIONS.

[@olivernagl7341]

Inform yourself on the official MIT website, there is everything explained, from financing the whole thing to what test you need to take etc..

[@Calmh_Yourtitties_Down]

Contact them through thier website, that's the easiest way to get your answers, than through thier YT channel where many leave comments, which makes it more likely to drown your comment.

[@mrwhotheheck5092]

😒

[@gujju_spider]

I am only imagine it when tony wearing it in iron man 2

[@thekat5998]

It is the first time that I am the 26th viewer

[@hasnaebenkhaldoun4872]

Cool ❤️🖤❤️ 😿

[@raguaviva]

I think they should make it bigger and with a huge red gem on it. Not that crap.

[@greenwendal5056]

K

[@arthambhardwaj]

Why doesn't it takes simple guys?

[@SR-kd4wi]

Can we not have a stupid ring?

[@SeeNyuOG]

What a neat way to create elitarism

[@raguaviva]

MIT the cult! The next step is to do some weird rituals.

[@theEVILonionRAT]

Actually that sounds very cool. I would do rituals at MIT if I had to.

[@KOTYAR1]

So you give young ppl freedom to design their rings, and, judging from what you showed, they made the blandest designs imaginable? And you they wear these cringe-ass jackets, to make them full of themselves? I'm just salty, bc bald piece of work in charge of my country decided what I can't have one of these anymore. Jackets are still cringe though

[@IstanaAnginWorldwide]

Sounds super elitist but sure, whatever.

[@deeRay7292]

Children of rich people, being rich... gee

[@Mainline100]

MIT barely puts any weight into legacy and has a need-blind application. Students are there based on their own merits.

[@theEVILonionRAT]

@@Mainline100 yea. MIT is probably one of the only schools that still do that. Anymore, schools like Harvard focus too much on diversity (which is not necessarily a bad thing, but not good when merit is completely forgotten about) and legacy.

[@dimitar4y]

MIT needs to do what everyone expects it to do, and also handle employment. If they're all so pro-talent, they should be putting the talent to good use themselves, creating products, having a research and manufacturing facility on-site. Evolve into a skyscraper MIT, maybe even dig down-ward and make a bunker to preserve everything important. But do they do that? No. Because they just care about selling worthless educations and overhype it. :T

[@msid9870]

Dude what the fuck

[@Mainline100]

Do you have any idea what you’re talking about?