Halfway to Hell
By ET
MIT is located in Cambridge, which is separated from Boston by the Charles River. There are a few bridges connecting them. The Longfellow bridge is the nearest to my apartment. Then there is a Harvard bridge. Why is it called “Harvard” bridge right in front of “MIT” main building? I was told that when the bridge was built, the City of Cambridge asked MIT to donate some money for the construction and obtain the right to name the bridge. MIT refused, not because of the money but because of the ugly design of the bridge — after all, MIT did not need yet another ugly architecture associated with its name. (MIT did not keep this promise when we built the Stata center :-p)
In the middle of this bridge, there is a sign:”halfway to hell”. I concur this after spending these years here. I can’t help feeling the joy of graduating. The joy, though, would never be experienced without going through MIT. So my feeling is really mixed. I did not check the other sidewalk leading to Boston, maybe they should put a sign:”halfway to life”
July 4th, 2006 at 3:23 am
I agree there is nothing like the feeling of having put in your time somewhere then moving on and remebering the days of past, you have alot fo great things ahead of you no doubt and I wish you the best on all your ventures, just remeber this “not many can say they graduated from MIT”
June 27th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Just remember a chinese saying “Xian zhi si di er hou sheng”
To access to the real life, we all need to experience “the way to the hell”. hehe :))