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My name is Will Jack. I am a member of the class of 2017 at MIT and I love engineering and physics. I made this blog to share my adventures into these fields.

Please feel free to contact me via email at [email protected]

A Summer at PPPL

I’ve got a job. My first job. And it is freaking awesome. Well, it’s kind of a job. Technically it’s a paid internship, but I guess there’s really not that much of a difference. Anyway, I’m being paid to research at the Princeton Plasma Physics

A Pen and a Confession

Alright, I need to confess to a terrible habit of mine: I lose pens like it is my job. While I have been making strides in keeping track of my pens it is still a problem, so I figured what might help would be having a pen that I have some sort of personal

My Talk in Berlin

Here’s a video of the talk I gave in Berlin about the fusion reactors I’ve built: [youtube]dS_l9HED3yQ[/youtube]

Time for Some Hacking

I have been pretty down recently because rather than building awesome things, I’ve been writing tons of college and scholarship applications. But, that all paid off just a few days ago when I found out that I had been accepted to MIT!I have been feeling

Fusor Update and Science Fairs

Sorry I haven't written for a while, but the science fair and school have completely consumed my life. This is just a quick update on the fusor. I am currently upgrading my vacuum system and and adding in a diffusion pump, which is a type of high

Another Belated Update

I’m not going to lie, I totally forgot to update this blog over the summer, but in the future I’m going to try to keep it a bit more current. Anyway, a lot of things have happened since I last posted! I am working on building a new reactor, IEC fu

Recently I competed in a series of local and regional science fairs, and I have been selected as a grand prize winner to head to the Intel International Science Fair in Pittsburgh! I will have the reactor there, so if anybody wants to come see it and chat