the engineer's song

(In sff.net, we got to talking about MIT things like smoots and the Engineers' Song -- "We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the engineers," etc.)

Not only are there still smoots, Susan, they were preserved when the bridge was rejuvenated a few years back. I believe they cut the sidewalk up in sections with the painted numbers intact, and replaced them.

The smoot is a unit of measurement that goes back to 1958, named after an Oliver Smoot, an inebriated undergraduate who allowed himself to b...