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Steel Bridge: The Legacy Continues
Welcome to the new Steel Bridge blog! This is Emily Moberg reporting, a junior here in the department. I’m majoring in Environmental Engineering and hope to someday work in conservation ecology. You...
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Starting the Spring Semester
Today we had our first steel bridge meeting of the spring semester; we started off the evening with some tasty pizza (yeah, I know you're jealous) and then the seniors surprised Gina with a birthday...
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Solving Problems in the Midst of Snowmageddon
While many parts of the country have been ravaged by the "blizzard of 2010," the Steel Bridge team, is deep in the depths of MIT, planning our bridge.The room is a flurry of discussion, as the Jimmies,...
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For all of you holding your breaths, it's okay, you can stop! The MIT Steel Bridge Team has started the construction of our bridge!Last week cutting commenced (and I was working with Tina and Pierre to...
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Coming Together
Sorry for the sparse blog posts recently! I’ll try to fill in some more details than usual to make up for all of my shorter posts (and I got some pictures, to make up for the times I promised them and...
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Down to the Wire
Had you been in the basement of Building 1 a few nights ago, you would have seen a bunch of MIT students running around with drills, bolts, nuts, brooms, and some sign-posts. Yes, this was the MIT...
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Practice, Practice, Practice
If you have tried to get out of the parking lot by Building 1 recently, you may have had trouble. In need of more space to practice, we have started practicing our construction sequence there, at least...
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Regional Winners!
The MIT Steel Bridge Team took home five First-Place Prizes: 1st Overall, 1st in Efficiency, 1st in Stiffness, 1st in Aesthetics, and 1st in the Paper Competition.The team is estatic and really excited...
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The Road to Nationals
I realize I have been somewhat remiss in writing blog posts recently, so I apologize to any diligent followers who were worried that my lack of posting indicated a lack of progress … au...
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Bridge-less Summer?
This summer, I have learned that steel is not the only material out of which one can build bridges.As an environmental engineer, my summer has been slightly less bridge-filled than my school terms....
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