About Me
I am Lleyton Elliott, a Junior at MIT studying Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Control, Instrumentation, and Robotics (Course 2-A). I attempted to take this class as a sophomore last year, and am very thankful to have made it this year - I feel that I can jumpstart my fabrication knowledge and learn things that will help me for the rest of my career and life, and have a great time along the way!
In addition to my classes, I am an undergraduate researcher in MIT's Accelerated Materials Lab for Sustainability (AMLS), working on an autonomous, closed-loop materials discovery system to aid in solar cell research. I am on the course staff of the MIT class 2.004 Dynamics and Control II as a Lab Assistant, helping students to complete lab assignments and working on improving the lab-based content of the class. I am also on MIT's Committee on Curricula alongside other undergraduate and faculty representatives, and on the MIT MechE Student Advisory Board. Finally, I work with the MIT Office of the First Year as an Orientation Captain, helping plan and run the first-year orientation week every year. I am very thankful to be involved on campus in a number of ways, making a positive impact in the MIT community and beyond!
In my free time, you can find me singing with the MIT Logarhythms, MIT's oldest a cappella group, of which I am currently the Director, or hanging out with the brothers of my fraternity, Zeta Psi. I was also a member of the MIT Men's Heavyweight Crew Team for two years before stepping away for health reasons. I'm quite thankful to have these communities where I can have fun in a non-academic setting and balance my life as a student with everything else I love!
Me, Attempting to Learn to Make Almost Anything
I tried to take this class one year ago in my sophomore fall and unfortunately didn't make it, so I'm stoked to be a part of it this semester. Throughout this class, I'm attempting to marry anecdotal recounts of my projects each week with robust engineering documentation; I want to make it interesting to read while also replicable by anyone who wants to do something I did themselves. I hope you enjoy my musings as you read through my assignments page!
Also, I settled on consistent formatting a few weeks in as I learned HTML and CSS for the first time this semester, but some of the old pages remain as they were when I first formatted them. The reason is twofold: I lacked the bandwidth to go back and update them all during the final sprint week, but I also think it's really cool to look back and see how even my ability to write a webpage has improved. Cheers!