The Michael Rait student work consists of assignments that Rait completed as a student in the Parsons School of Design Environmental Design Department between 1975 and 1979. Projects in the portfolio include floor plans, elevations, perspectives, and renderings of office buildings, furniture, and restaurant, office, and residential interiors.

Created with felt-tip pens, this series of sketches made on a long roll of paper was known as a SCAN, or Speculative Calculative Assimilation Network drawing. This type of exercise was frequently used at Parsons in the late 1960s. The top left corner of the roll reads, "Six Basic Blocks & Directions."