Facts #2 - Mascot: The Beaver

"Of all the animals of the world, the beaver is noted for his
engineering and mechanical skill and habits of industry.
His habits are nocturnal, he does his best work in the dark."

By Mr. Hornaday

TIM, MIT's Mascot.

In 1914  a group of alumni presented the beaver to MIT's President, Richard Maclaurin, they choose  the beaver because he was (and is) an American animal and he is a nature engineer.

The mascot appears in the brass rat (I'll talk about it in a future post), and It's called TIM and normally appears at important events.

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Facts #1 - The Great Droid

There are lots of cool things to see and enjoy in MIT, I'm going to tell you a little bit more about the Hacks & Traditions of MIT.
So what was the great droid?

The Great Droid

In 1999 two days before the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, the Great Dome of MIT was transformed into R2-D2.
It was one of the Hack in MIT, I'll write about some more in the future.

Image and the rest of the history in MIT's website.