Harvard Bridge Smoots

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 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

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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.
0:13.8	No, that's okay.
0:15.7	This is Kami.
0:16.8	My name is Camille Mojica, but everyone just calls me Kami.
0:20.8	I am currently an intern working for Stitcher, but I am an audio producer and audio engineer.
0:29.4	Many recently started working with us on the OutSubs here at Podcast, and I wanted to
0:33.7	talk 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?
0:44.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:45.4	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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