Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 21 hours ago
Read more about Neal Carlson SM '65, EAA '65, PhD '69 on Slice of MIT: bit.ly/458btlR
Neal Carlson SM ’65, EAA ’65, PhD ’69 has always liked to fix things, so when his church needed someone to repair bicycles for its annual auction, he volunteered. “Being reasonably mechanical, I thought, ‘That’s something I can do,’” Carlson says. “It turned out it’s been a very rewarding process.”
For the past five years, Carlson has been refurbishing bikes for an event his church holds every summer in Dennis, Massachusetts. All the bike sale proceeds go to community charities. “My favorite part of repairing bikes is figuring out what’s wrong and then the feeling of satisfaction when I can fix it,” he says. “That’s rewarding, to take a bike that’s almost unrideable and turn it back into a bike that somebody can really enjoy.”
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Read more about Neal Carlson SM '65, EAA '65, PhD '69 on Slice of MIT: bit.ly/458btlR
Neal Carlson SM ’65, EAA ’65, PhD ’69 has always liked to fix things, so when his church needed someone to repair bicycles for its annual auction, he volunteered. “Being reasonably mechanical, I thought, ‘That’s something I can do,’” Carlson says. “It turned out it’s been a very rewarding process.”
For the past five years, Carlson has been refurbishing bikes for an event his church holds every summer in Dennis, Massachusetts. All the bike sale proceeds go to community charities. “My favorite part of repairing bikes is figuring out what’s wrong and then the feeling of satisfaction when I can fix it,” he says. “That’s rewarding, to take a bike that’s almost unrideable and turn it back into a bike that somebody can really enjoy.”
#massachusettsinstituteoftechnology #alumni #bicycles #bikerepair
![[AD] MITERS Alums Build Own Hackerspace](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7PWtYBGfPhk/mqdefault.jpg "[AD] MITERS Alums Build Own Hackerspace
Read more about the MITERS-West hackerspace on Slice of MIT: https://bit.ly/3YFNXgf
View the video without audio description: https://youtu.be/zkfRTSrjJ08
If you can’t stay at MIT forever, why not bring MIT with you?
Peter Krogen SM ’14, PhD ’16 and Ethan Perrin ’20 were so inspired by their experience in the MIT Electronics Research Society, better known as MITERS , that a couple years ago they decided to re-create it on the West Coast, where they live now.
#massachusettsinstituteoftechnology #alumni #hackerspace #making #audiodescription
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