MIT students use a combination of the department's Course number and a number assigned to the class to identify their subjects the course which many universities would designate as "Physics 101" is, at MIT, "8.01." For brevity, course number designations are pronounced without the decimal point and by replacing "oh" for zero (unless zero is the last number). Students majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), the most popular department, collectively identify themselves as "Course VI" or "Course 6." Majors are numbered in the approximate order of when the department was founded for example, Civil and Environmental Engineering is Course I, while Nuclear Science & Engineering is Course XXII. MIT students often refer to both their majors and classes using numbers alone. The ring is traditionally made of gold, the beaver is the largest North American rodent, hence "gold beaver" has informally become "Brass Rat" in student lingo. "Brass Rat" refers to the MIT class ring, which prominently features the school mascot beaver on the top surface.
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