Jack Lindsay

Jack Lindsay is currently a fourth year student at Hampshire College. He builds things.

Philosophy
As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody was always hatching a plot to kill him. There were people who cared for him and people who didn't, and those who didn't hated him and were out to get him. They hated him because he was Assyrian. But they couldn't touch him, he told Clevinger, because he had a sound mind in a pure body and was as strong as an ox. They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. He was miracle ingredient Z-247. He was --

"Crazy!" Clevinger interrupted, shrieking. "That's what you are! Crazy!"

"--immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman."

"Superman?" Clevinger cried. "Superman?"

"Supraman," Yossarian corrected.

Academics
Jack Lindsay came to Hampshire College to study cognitive science, but has since left that field of foolishness and tom-flappery to focus on engineering. He is primarily concerned with building things, large and small.

In his first year he built a wind turbine from plastic and old parts during JanTerm. The construction had a four foot wingspan and reached speeds of 500 RPM in 10 mph winds. This discovery nearly destroyed the turbine and a friend's car with it.

In his second year he designed and built a photobioreactor, a functioning model of a solar powered home, and a bicycle. The photobioreactor supported the exponential growth of algae in a closed environment. The solar powered home maintained living temperature for three hours after sunset during winter without electrical or gas inputs. The bicycle is still under construction. He proceeded to retrofit a cream separator to run off human power.

In his fifth semester he chose to take five classes at UMASS and produced one semester's worth of nothing. He does not recommend UMASS, though he does recommend any class there taught by Justin Fermann (Chemistry).

His sixth semester was spent at Smith College writing computer programs, row-reducing matrices, and calculating strain on recumbent tricycles under braking. Them biddies crazy.



Prototype Electric Vehicle
Division three project designed and constructed between September 2010 and April 2011. The prototype was built using brushless dc hub motors and lithium iron phosphate battery packs. It had a combined power of 6kW (~10.5hp) and functional regenerative brakes in tandem with friction brakes. The project had a top speed of 34 mph, an acceleration of 2.1g and a range of 21 miles. The total cost was estimated at $3800.

Special thanks to Team Lindsay, responsible for design and construction from February through April.

Recommendations:

Omar Dahi

Jim Callahan (Smith, Mathematics)

Justin Fermann (UMASS, as mentioned previously)

The Lemelson Center

Re-Rad

Dominque Thiebaut (Smith, Compsci)

RedScare Ultimate Frisbee

Not taking shit

Dis-recommendations:

Cultural Anthropology classes

Rayane Moreira

Anyone toting an "Active Anti-racism" message

taking shit

Post-modern thought

Linear Algebra

Being different

Community Involvement
Some men are born mediocre, Some men achieve mediocrity, And some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.