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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Harvard Bridge Smoots (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

How an MIT fraternity pledge instituted a new, unique unit of measurement. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:  https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/harvard-bridge-smoot-measurements

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:01.0

Hi.

0:02.0

How are you?

0:03.0

I know it looks like I accidentally made the meeting like 12 hours long.

0:10.6

It's definitely not going to take more than like 15 minutes.

0:13.7

No, that's okay.

0:15.7

This is Kami.

0:16.8

My name is Camille Mojica, but everyone just calls me Kami.

0:20.7

I am currently an intern working for Stitcher, but I am an audio producer and audio engineer.

0:29.3

Kami recently started working with us on the OutSubsira podcast, and I wanted to talk

0:34.0

to her today because of this.

0:37.0

So I went to Boston University from 2017 to 2020.

0:42.0

Are you familiar with the Harvard Bridge?

0:44.3

Yeah, yeah.

0:45.3

I had friends that attended Harvard, and I would also have events like on the Harvard side

0:51.0

of the bridge, or would just go there to hang out around that campus because it's like

0:56.4

hog warts.

0:57.4

And I wanted to be like a Harvard student, even though I wasn't one.

1:02.7

When you went over the Harvard Bridge, do you have any memories or anything about the

1:07.8

Harvard Bridge that is unusual?

1:09.9

Yes.

1:10.9

So, the first time I went over the Harvard Bridge, I was with one of my friends who attended

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