MIT Maker Portfolio (Class of 2027)

Submitted early action (admitted) for the 2022-2023 application cycle.
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[@icgz711]

Wow it’s crazy how you can know all of this as a high schooler. I just graduated with a degree in ME and this was all stuff I learned in college. Awesome job, you’ll have an awesome career

[@Hoppitot]

Bro I was too busy thinking of new keywords to get different juicy videos to ever even CONSIDERING doing anything like this lmao

[@ictogon]

Wow it's crazy how i would have loved doing this in high school but i don't have rich parents

[@Hoppitot]

@@ictogon Reroll?

[@ictogon]

@@Hoppitot hmmmm nah it could be a LOT worse tbh

[@basicguy99]

His school had a mathematics and computer science track and allowed him to intern with an AI/Robotics company because the school has a history of teaching and graduating STEM. Nothing like the schools we had to attend lol.

[@huniyuzu]

Congratulations on your acceptance!! I got deferred from MIT early, but seeing your projects and result makes me happy for you. You really deserve it :D

[@seanboerhout]

Thank you for the kind words! I wish you luck on your college applications - I saw your art, and it's super cool!! (I come NO where close D:). Good Luck on RD - I hope you get in!

[@huniyuzu]

@@seanboerhout Thanks so much!

[@BlakeTedKord]

@@seanboerhout Do u plan on doing more robotics and coding tutorials and practicals for this channel? Or just sharing your accomplishments?

[@max00101]

This is absurd... Not to make this sound wrong, the work you've done is amazing. But at this rate the only thing you'll gain from the degree at MIT is the certificate. No wonder these universities rank so high, when all there students are vastly overqualified.

[@Rctdcttecededtef]

Prestige?

[@gickygackers]

Spoken like a true under-acheiever

[@jinwoo78]

Cry harder buddy because you weren't strong enough to make your dreams a reality. Wake up. Shitting on people trying to reach their dreams is just making you look bad.

[@Rctdcttecededtef]

@@jinwoo78 nice attitude

[@jinwoo78]

@@Rctdcttecededtef I try.

[@ItsMauiBruh]

I almost done with two engineering degrees and somehow you have accomplished more than I have. Good Job

[@Prince_Sharming]

SAME. 2 MSE degrees here and I couldn't do half this shit.

[@theviolenceenjoyer]

Thats the difference between teaching yourself and being taught by an institution. Youve been scammed.

[@Prince_Sharming]

@@theviolenceenjoyer Look, the only scam here is the cost of university. If anything, it should be free or much less expensive, as it is in the rest of the world. An ABET accredited degree that's the foot in the door for 99% of engineering roles? A chance to grow your professional network and do co-ops/internships and secure a role right out the door? Opportunities for higher education? Yeah, you need school for that. You've made a pretty shallow assessment, there. It's not just learning. It's the everything else that makes it happen. Pricewise, yes, it's a scam. But that's a bigger issue.

[@KB-gy5gg]

@@Prince_Sharming im starting Bsc EE this mid year with absolutely fuckall knowledge in electronics, seeing these sorts of comment makes me feel at ease, thank you (and yes I should prob stop watching these sorts of video before i feel descouraged to major this field)

[@Prince_Sharming]

@@KB-gy5gg Well first off, best of luck to you in EE. It's a beautiful field; I've always felt that my EE friends were wizards. That being said, I would try to not take something like this video as dis-encouragement, but instead as encouragement. There's nothing holding you back from doing something like this or even better.

[@codygilleland]

Hi Sean, Your maker portfolio is incredible. I spent 12 years at MIT and hope you enjoy your time there. Make sure you leave time aside to work on your own projects and the self-education you are clearly already doing.

[@kenbobcorn]

This is what happens when you come from a great family, great neighborhood, great schools, etc. Its clear you had a fruitful upbringing and only a select few have the motivation and drive to learn what you did at such an early age. You have a quite a bright future ahead of you, I can tell you that.

[@shmevanriceballz2857]

@@wungus-bongoit’s true tho. The privileged always have more to work with

[@Ljosi]

Don't forget genetics/IQ

[@christophcrs8472]

@@anon_148 People love excuses. Congrats to Sean the knowledge he gathered as a highschooler is just insane

[@dobkayaker]

@@anon_148 It's clear from their uploads that they're not. Notice how generalising about the character of people based on their skin colour lead you to a provably wrong conclusion. They really oughta have a word for this kind of thing so you can avoid it in future.

[@kenbobcorn]

@@wungus-bongo Yea, I think you misunderstood what I said totally. I really don't think I know more than anyone else, but I can say with certainty he has the motivation to do great things and he will be successful at whatever he does end up doing.

[@tirthpatel2300]

This is literally the knowledge that I gained from college as an EE major that just graduated last May. It's incredible how much you've accomplished on your own and honestly this is enough to land you a job as a junior engineer anywhere lmao. Hope to see you work in Boston Dynamics with me if I get accepted but ik you def will haha

[@soelinhtet4103]

hey how was it? did u see him there? genuinely curious

[@Lorium.]

I am a master's student (final year) of electrical engineering. I have never done and never will do such a things. What a waste...

[@tormodhag6824]

@@Lorium. i wanna do these things but dont have the resources to. I live where the maker scene is generally dead and there is no public places that offer the use of the more expensive gear. I did consider asking my dad since he is a investor into a EV charger company where he might know someone through that that can set me up. I did get a tour of Rolls Royce norway dep. by a relative that is a manager there, great work they do with electric duct fans

[@tormodhag6824]

@@Lorium. i do want to work as an engineer for Kongsberg defense&aerospace as they will need more employees in the years to come and to me it seems so interesting to work there

[@ayushtripathi2958]

@@Lorium. how is this a waste ?

[@nash1127]

This randomly popped up on my recommendations. Congratulations dude, this is an achievement and you earned it. You're really good at explaining a complicated process. Good luck on your future endeavors!

[@Onkruid]

This is awesome. I don't understand a thing, but I can experience your passion through your work. Lovely to see how you are so motivated to grow and I thank the KZbin algorithm for showing me this, it gave me a big confidence boost!

[@ethanzentner9320]

This is sick. I'll be joining you at MIT next year and I just love seeing all these portfolios.

[@Vtoq]

Wow dude you’re super talented. I’m close to graduating with a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering and I still fell stupid af. I blame my lack of hands-on participation as I never got the chance to work the type of stuff shown in the video. Anyways I’m proud of you and you for a bright future ahead of you.

[@bluez6812]

0:17 light mode in vscode is crazy

[@camilotorres9835]

looking forward to your career bro. Really impressive stuff

[@chiditochukwudaniel713]

Bro, you're good. These are the skills I'm trying my best to improve 🥺

[@tanerpaker]

Congrats bro you have accumulated college level skills before even starting!

[@Supercheeseman3]

Super dope man you explain this breadth of ECE in a very well construed manner at a young age super nice to see. I made a drone this year in a makerspace internship at my university and the design / engineering process is super rewarding and gratifying but super difficult and time consuming

[@jummansheikh739]

Hey sean CONGRATS on your acceptance, I would love to see more about the rasberry pi drone you built, Im a biologist and chemist and never really had a interest growing up in robotics and coding but you def have sparked something in me, would love to see more abotu that drone man !

[@420Ayan]

Congrats on your acceptance man! This popped up in my recommended and I’m glad I clicked on this haha, quite impressive stuff you’ve got going on here! Was wondering if you’d be willing to share your stats, however I understand if you wouldn’t like to. Anyways congrats again and best of luck on your future endeavors :)

[@davidchuong714]

This is really impressive. I’m about to graduate college with an EE degree and the only part of this robot that I could build is probably the PCBs and some of the lower level sensor code. The fact that you were able to build the entire robot shows me that you will go very far in life. By the way, did you end up getting accepted?

[@seanboerhout]

Thanks for the kind words! I'm sure you could do most of it though... I probably just have a more time as a high schooler. Yeah, I was accepted.

[@yousifalex]

Congratulations on your admittance and your journey at MIT. I don't know you but I'm happy for you!

[@payloh_3328]

As a senior college engineering student who has never accomplished close to this I am astonished, bravo. Glad to see in the comments im not the only one phew

[@ink2740]

The algorithm carried me here. Congrats on your acceptance man, wish you the best in your future.

[@tudorpop3000]

I'm awed by this damn I'm in highschool in a computer science profile but I don't know where I could start learning things like these!

[@honestabe_9207]

I’m a college electrical engineering student, and while I wills say the embedded code stuff and PCB is familiar, but other than that I myself could not do all of that… Major props and CONGRATS on your “admittance” into MIT!!!

[@Uvuv6969]

This is where i want to get to. i already know programming really well, 3D modeling fairly well, and some pcb design, but i need to learn electronics and i need to learn more math theory stuff. Hope i can one day get here and then go further

[@VinOnline]

I never did this in high school, I never would've even dreamed of being able to do something like this a few years later in the present day. This is just so impressive and mind-boggling. I'm kinda glad I got rejected from MIT because I don't think I could stay somewhere where everyone around me is at this god-level of wizardry. Congrats though!

[@prawnstars3160]

Man, this is call to action for me, as someone who's struggling with motivation to study. Turns out I've been comparing things the wrong way. YT and Social Media being useful once in a while

[@jamumadaki5484]

This is impressive. Keep building useful solutions Sean, the world needs more people like you.

[@surreal9558]

I guess we now know who's going to be the future #1 in Mechanics and Robotics. Ready yourselves for this guys future company boys

[@photonganglol2413]

A year late but like so many other commenters have pointed out, you're way ahead of the game. I'm a biomedical engineering graduate student at a tier 1 research institute and this would blow many of our design projects out of the water.

[@CollinKeegan]

Anything inverse kinematics really is just so freaking cool to watch

[@charliepound6687]

yes

[@shinobi5189]

I don't know why I got this recommended but now I see that I am very dumb and lack a stupid amount of knowledge. Congrats on getting accepted and good luck.

[@jzzsxm]

Loved reading this portfolio, glad you got accepted, you earned it.

[@alienkishorekumar]

All you have to do it train it in a reinforcement learning gym, and you are good to go. No need to join MIT.

[@agarengames3101]

I already graduated but I watch videos like these to get ideas for fun projects to do. These are so impressive.

[@ai_is_a_great_place]

You probably didn't expect this to explode, but the ai thought you were worthy! Well done on the robotics!

[@MrLeoLian]

I was half-way through until I realized that you are applying to MIT...dude you are amazing! I majored in ME but can't build shit

[@peters972]

Seems like you’ve got a pretty clear head for this stuff. Looking forward to seeing your contributions to technology in the future! Think outside the box, sure, but think about linking disciplines that are barely connected by anyone yet and I’m sure you’ll have a hit.

[@themilanchauhan]

Bro this is insanely cool!

[@Alixdkari]

I don't know why was this video recommended to me, I'm not interested in robotics but I'm terribly happy for you, looks like you love what you're doing and you're also good at it! Great job man.

[@BengalTiger12]

Although I’m not nearly as intelligent as you, I aspire to be as motivated in my work as you are. Good stuff dude

[@AtaiKydyrov]

my man just described most wholsome inventions in last 20 seconds what a legend

[@Fernandez218]

It's depressing knowing there are people this smart out there -- and at the same time this young. I'd wish you good luck in life but you probably won't need it. I promise you I'm not one of the dislikes on this video.

[@Joshua-sn5rv]

I'm speechless. Lol. Congrats tho! You'd def enjoy your time in MIT!

[@marquisdehoto1638]

When I watch those videos, I ask myself what they can learn in uni. It seems like there is no point in paying so much money. It inspires me to keep learning :)

[@taiko8196]

Absolutely insane. Wishing you the best.

[@ParadoxMHFU]

man you are killing it. good freaking job.

[@dillonmrose]

Go forward and do amazing things. Never stop learning.

[@onefortyfour3]

Bro I think you are qualified for the workforce 💀💀

[@azaleacolburn]

Holy shit that's incredible!

[@nollix]

This guy is incredibly skilled and smart. It just makes me wonder what the point of going to uni is when you already know all of this in the first place.

[@amentco8445]

There really isn't any. Especially with the drive and opportunities presented to him. Uni is a setback at that point which makes me sad people fall for it.

[@cryora]

The maker space has made these types of projects very accessible. There are still technologies that are difficult or expensive to get into, and that's where a university can help. For example, semiconductor fabrication requires a dedicated lab, and not something you can make at home. If you want to sell a product, you don't want to sell something that lots of other people can make. And your marketability is limited if all you know is maker space stuff and not any industry grade or cutting edge technologies.

[@halthewise3995]

Nice video, and cool projects! The datasheet for the AS5600 seems to imply that the hysteresis can be disabled over I2C using the HYST bits in the CONF register, or that you could directly read the RAW_ANGLE register over I2C instead of using the analog/PWM output. If you already tried that, disregard me.

[@lemonke2289]

Feels bad 3 years into my CS degree knowing I'll never be as smart as this kid :(

[@wiilli4471]

wealthy* if you had access to 3D printer and CAD and shit from before college you'd be the same. The drone he has is literally over $1k. This whole video is nothing but a flex of wealth lmao. Dude obviously is in a rich ass house and had a wonderful schooling where all this was spoonfed to him. This is scientific fact. Go and read the many many research papers that show wealth, not inherent intellect is the number one contributor to knowledge gained and success in life.

[@ojack4260]

The world needs more and more talented Engineers liek you, who work technically to create better products, the ones that others can't do even they are rich.

[@gilian2587]

Color me impressed. Wishing you well for the future, young engineer.

[@AlexandrBorschchev]

The definition of hard work! (and smarts too ;D) Well done! 👍

[@ericjoshua_]

Wow, this is really impressive. Great job!

[@ivprojects8143]

Cool projects! Congrats on your acceptance.

[@highnet8717]

your code implementation looks great, keep it up!

[@CrypticBTR]

This is amazing amazing work. Great job! Seems like you'll have a fascinating career!

[@wazazaby]

Absolutely incredible stuff, GG's !

[@awsaffida9348]

This guy is winning

[@Liteskinxo]

Wow this guy is gonna go very far in life

[@gustavandersson6746]

Wow! Very nice job. I hope you do great things in life!

[@basicguy99]

I wish my high school had a real computer science course when I went, they taught Word and Powerpoint and had no connections for internships anywhere.

[@satioOeinas]

Amazing work and congrats! Can you give some pointers on how you learned all this? person projects, school clubs or something else?

[@marcoblackwell8477]

Would love to know also

[@blj9793]

Congrats on your acceptance! VSCode light theme though...

[@supreme.rizzer]

you are an inspiration!

[@georgekerwood9100]

Impressive stuff! Best of luck in your future :)

[@lau4893]

My god, leave some talent for the rest of us XD

[@Moreoverover]

Trust me when I say this is sheer hard work and perspicacity, all of these projects already have foundational knowledge to build off of so no cognitive R&D is required only mostly a step by step process of learning skills in a linear predictable fashion. I'm not discrediting anything, this display very good planning skills and a high learning rate which is crucial for engineering.

[@lau4893]

@@Moreoverover Yeah I know it's mostly hard work, I'm an engineering graduate myself and I have no doubt I could do most of what he's done in this video if I worked on it enough, but still you've got to admit that he's really talented!

[@theendurance]

@@lau4893 talent isnt a real thing, its just upbringing + hard work. people act like people come out of the womb with "talent"

[@dtreezy]

@@theendurance Static intelligence is heavily influenced by genetics. If that is what is considered "talent" then yes, some people come out of the womb with more than others.

[@reddittales5976]

what the fuck, this is some next level stuff, congrats man

[@bbokser]

We will watch your career with great interest!

[@karthurh]

Admission officer would be like: Rejected due to too much knowledge, you don't need college

[@Squash101]

ye bro this jus got reccomended to me you def are gonna make it bro

[@Squash101]

Also is that miramar lake in the vid lmaoo

[@maksymfigat]

Congratulations! Great job!

[@paulchen355]

unequal talent, unequal resource. Great work, btw. I am just venting

[@sacklnwza0078]

i love yt algo to bring me here you did a good job so far

[@p4160]

Very cool work dude! Inspiriing.

[@prabhuorion9202]

Wow at this age you are so productive

[@jaymondal7775]

finally someone who uses vs code light theme.

[@whatisiswhatable]

Clicked this thinking it would be a parody but just realized I’m getting old and 2027 isn’t that far away

[@mohitkumar-nt3sp]

well let's agree " Mit portfolios are very inspirational".

[@bellshoe2894]

damn... and im over here struggling with making ReactJS components

[@abelarrouj1988]

Fantastic work and great presentation!

[@ivantarnyagin]

I don't know how old you are, but this is all impressive as shit

[@ya2863]

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn son, thats all i have, DAMMNNN, Keep the hard work bro

[@ExopMan]

i can't imagine a life outside this project work and the learning required (+ other HS work)

[@yosemitebandit]

So awesome, congrats!

[@daiman3673]

Awesome portfolio!! Keep going!

[@JayLim-bn9fh]

Dude made something after highschool that even engineering graduates from NUST Pak won't be able to do.

[@sanskarshrivastava5193]

you are an inspiration dude , keet the good work up and best of luck

[@kenvischi1047]

Congratulations, impressive!

[@YjnovR]

I listened like I could correct you on something even tough I didn't understand a thing

[@brimmed]

what was your experience before making in the summer of covid? that's pretty impressive to do all that in the span of like 2 years. my senior design class we made a spider bot that can walk and shoot a grapple. that took all damn semester and didn't do half the stuff you described lol. luckily i work for a utility and don't need to know anything about that stuff now

[@syedahmed6568]

This project is so influential

[@bugraoral3031]

Congratulations!

[@Nonsense116]

Absolutely insane. No wonder I didn't go to an Ivy-leage.

[@twintek1099]

With guys like this applying... I stand no chance xD Where does one have the time and resources to become an Engineer... before learning how to become an Engineer... Wild.

[@samatarMohamed]

Keep going and doing what you love and learning. Don't waste your time on bullshit and distractions!

[@alexchomp]

Congrats on your acceptance!