When you walk along Harvard Bridge, you'll stumble upon this strange graffitti on the ground. What in the world is a smoot? An ancient unit of measurement? It turns out to be a 1958 unit of length in the form of freshman Oliver Smoot, who was rolled head over heels over the entire length of the bridge. There are markings on the ground indicating every 10 smoots and the bridge measured 364.4 smoots plus an ear. This famous MIT prank has been preserved through the years as a testament to MIT's innovation and leadership in technological discoveries... Stories like that make me wonder what I missed in my university education but let's not go down that path... 
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