#brass rat

[asamiontop]

A lot of fanart depicts Lena wearing rings. (I love it, it’s so gay.)

But she went to MIT and I haven’t encountered any images of her wearing a Brass Rat…

Putting this out there into the void bc I think those hands would wear one well.

[watkinschow]

Sketch card with a story: While at Awesome Con in DC, met a lovely young woman who is headed to MIT this week. She requested a stormtrooper circa Episode III in school colors (Blood on Concrete). Added a brass rat and set him in Killian Court. Best of luck, Eleni!

Copic and Prismacolor markers.

[manorbagofsand]

i buy an mit class ring, the brass rat, as a sophomore in college. before i know i won't graduate on time, before i change my name. i get my old name, my old expected year, engraved on the brass rat. it now feels laughably wrong, like i can write them off as typographical error. i buy the ring among a string of post-break up decisions I have a hard time justifying in hindsight. i do not actually plan to wear it; i choose to have it shipped to me. i take my friend high on painkillers after dental surgery to pick up hers though. i wear a black sportcoat, a silver clip-on bow-tie, and corduroy casual rust-colored pants. there used to be a few pictures of me at the event, all ring-less. it's stainless steel, ring size 7, bezel size medium, featuring what looks like a beaver holding a baseball bat. seven years after buying it, four years after actually graduating i start to wear it. when people ask to see it i introduce it as 'shockingly ugly' before they are put in the uncomfortable situation of trying to find something nice to say about its appearance. almost every time i put my brass rat on, i hear in my head my friend saying "i just want to get fingered by someone wearing a brass rat" when someone inevitably comments on how comically large of a bezel it is, I think about how I have put all four fingers of my right hand in my own asshole, brass rat and all. i think, it's not that big, though i know past-me would disagree it is too big for my finger now, spinning around freely. i weigh nearly forty pounds less than i did when i got it, despite being significantly more muscular. but i have my mothers knuckles and i doubt i could get a smaller ring over the swollen joint above it. i want to suck it off someone's finger and swallow it, let it slide down my open throat. i take it off when i have sex.

and no one ever sucks my fingers. there is a post about me on the “humans of mit” facebook page in 2014, shortly before i nearly get removed from school in a depressive low, a year before i remove myself, around the time i receive my brass rat. i am nearly unrecognizable compared to my current self, but the caption is eerie, 

"i don't want to do p-sets, i just want to build things" i am a bicycle mechanic. i get paid $20.60/hr. my daily work outfit is slightly tattered black jeans. a black t shirt, usually a band shirt, often cut to be sleeveless, a utility shirt with my name over the left breast pocket, the same greasy flatbrim hat I've been wearing for six years. my job has no educational requirements. i start wearing the brass rat to work. no one recognises it, which comforts me. it's a sort of a voyeur experiment. it feels risqué because i know i will be mortified when someone does recognise it.

it reminds me i can work hard and hate something, and it only minimally impacts my life later. literally just a sticker for my hard work. over the years i turn down two engineering jobs that offered me 2-3x what i make now. this is a privilege. to have no student debts, but a prestigious degree. to know my parents would pick me up if i need. to not need them to. my long-term housemates have the same degree, the same economic safety.

the ring is a reminder to me that hiding my privilege does not make it go away. mostly i wear it because it is a good fidget toy. i take a video of me jacking off with it. it's a neutral artifact in my arousal. 

i take a selfie, cactus-print shirt open to reveal a leather chest harness. i wear my same stupid hat, pouting at the camera. brass rat on the hand holding my phone. i think of how much a fuckboy i look like, how much college me would hate me now, and how i don't think i care

[imatmit]

My resized brass rat finally arrived!! I never knew close up pictures of hands could look so alien...

[alyda]

MIT Brass Rat 2018 shirt design entry, December 2015

[randomweirdsworld]

FYSA: MIT BRASS RATS

(for your situational awareness) about MIT CLASS RINGS: most students DO NOT get them, or if they do, they don't wear them. The alumni who DO are what we call the "yuppie LARPers" and are total douchebags. So Hollywood, before you give ppl like Tony Stark or Erin Gilbert a Brass Rat to make them look smart or wtf ever, HOW ABOUT YOU TALK TO SOMEBODY WHO WENT TO MIT IN THE STEM FIELDS AND WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS THIS SHIT?!?!?!? ALSO: MIT DOES NOT DO CLASS RANKINGS AND NOBODY THERE GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT SAT OR ACT SCORES BECAUSE SO MANY GOT PERFECT SCORES. it aint no thang. /rant that is all

[spazmonkeydb]

Brass Rat: Tony Stark 1989 by sharoncarter

My friend and I started writing an 80s Tony/Steve AU. Then this happened

How Soon Is Now by The Smiths || Major Tom by Peter Schilling || Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley || Obsession by Animotion || Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood || Bad by Michael Jackson || When I Will Be Famous by Bros || Crazy For You by Madonna || Toy Soldiers by Martika || Method of Modern Love by Hall & Oates || Let’s Dance by David Bowie || Sunglasses At Night by Corey Hart || Would I Lie To You by Eurythmics || Never Surrender by Corey Hart || More To Lose by Seona Dancing

[tosanelysucceed]

Apr 25, 2014 — Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the beautiful State Room in Boston to receive their glorious Brass Rats! Michael C. '16 explained in his post about Ring Premiere what the design of our ring looks like, but as of last night we now have our own beautiful rings to show to the world on our beautiful 2016 hands! ...