2/24/2022 0 Comments Mit brass rat natural finishThe other thing that I had always really liked is the contrast between day and night on the Cambridge and Boston skylines. Also, we modified the sailboats on the river to spell ’11. I think the really cool thing, though, is that we spelled out “2011” on the Green Building lights (the Green Building has turned into a convenient location for hacks, due to the symmetrical alignment of the building lights and the easy visibility from Boston). We emphasized Ashdown House (to commemorate the establishment of Phoenix Group, the first group that will move into the new Ashdown), Student Center (to emphasize the various student groups present on campus), and Stata Center (for the unique architecture? =p). The two sides of the bezel are inscribed with the Cambridge and Boston skylines, respectively, and usually there’s small tweaks to the basic design (2010 added the Hood Blimp, fireworks over Fenway, crew and sailboats on the Charles River). …and is scheduled to complete December 2010, before we graduate. (which caused great inconvenience passing between Stata and the Bio Building (I ate lunch on the lawn next to the Bio building during Freshman Orientation, when the food trucks were still close to the Bio building instead all the way at Kendall! Sadly, the lawn is nonexistent now, due to construction.)) The Building began construction during our time here at MIT… The biggest addition to the Map this year (2010’s was pretty standard and 2009’s had Building 6 blocked off due to construction) is Building 76 a new building in construction between the Stata Center and the Biology Building. The first presentation is the Hacker’s Map, the engraving of the MIT Map on the inside of the ring. For more information on this matter, please visit Snively’s extensive coverage on this matter. Presenting: Ringcomm! An interesting thing to note is that we have 13 people on the Committee, rather than the 12 from last year, the Class of 2010. On Friday night, I peered out at the sea of faces and realized what a magical job it is to be the Admission Officer of MIT – to be able to hand out the Golden Ticket of MIT to every. Someone (it turns out to be the esteemed Matt McGann) once said, you really only see your complete class in three occasions: 1) Frosh Orientation Picture, 2) Ring Premiere, and 3) Graduation (maybe 4) Ring Delivery). (after a line that stretched all the way across the main courtyard in front of Kresge Auditorium, being scrutinized by the door “security guards” (in reality members of the Class of 2012) that we are in fact, members of 2011, and obtaining a raffle ticket (more on that later!) with our student ID) The myriad blog entries regarding Ring Premiere in the past – please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing), and I am proud to present this year’s Ring Premiere to you in words, pictures, and video! :)Įven from the morning of February 6, 2009, you know that something’s up in the air. Upon realizing the monumental task that’s upon me, I took to myself to study all the assigned reading (ie. Wow, way to be clueless about this whole blogging-thingy, Chris Su. I remember reading Melis’s ring premiere entry as a prefrosh and wanting one like Sam wants Ina Garten.) (I kind of do feel like this is sort of a blogging rite of passage, actually. The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to MIT Admissions’ own, relatively young tradition: blogging Ring Premiere! And so, after three beautiful years of Ring Premiere blog entries, I’m proud to be blogging the debut of this year’s Brass Rat to the rest of the world. So I must admit, I didn’t know that blogging the Ring Premiere has become, and I here quote, from JKim. Look at the application that Snively used to determine which sophomore blogger will get to blog Ring Premiere! Blogging the Ring Premiere is a big deal.
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