The MIT Cheer

[alexxkay]

This came up in conversation recently, and some of my readers may not have had the joy of seeing it yet:

I’m a beaver,
You’re a beaver,
We are beavers all!
And when we get together,
We do the beaver call!

E to the u du dx,
E to the x dx!
Cosine secant tangent sine,
3.14159,
Integral, radical, mu, dv!
Slipstick, slide rule, M-I-T!

Go tech!

Comments

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Interesting. We used to sing the first verse by itself at summer camp, in Minnesota. I always thought it was a weird but amusing little song and it never occurred to me it was a school's cheer song. I wonder how that made its way from MIT to our camp.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Some young people use camp counselor jobs to help support traveling far from their origins to see the world. One of my camp counselors was (or at least claimed to be) a minor Danish prince!

Alternately, it might have started as a camp song and made its way to MIT, who adopted it because of the whole "beaver mascot" thing.