Initially she planned to focus on product/industrial design, but she shifted to machine design after taking 2.72 (Elements of Mechanical Design), in which teams of students are challenged to build a desktop lathe over the course of a semester. “It was so exciting to learn how engineering at MIT is not just technical but so creative,” she says. Gazdus was drawn to MIT by project classes such as 2.00B (Toy Design) and 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing).
Now a senior double-majoring in creative writing and mechanical engineering, Gazdus sees her childhood play as a harbinger of her interests now: “That definitely paved the way.” Then, everything changed when she realized she could create more permanent stories by writing them down. She also loved telling stories, and would create videos with her friends featuring LEGO minifigures. Finding those scraps and putting them together became more rewarding than the actual sets.” “I had a special container of those because they were always Star Wars robot arms or odd shapes, and I would build little robots and other contraptions out of them. “My favorite part of LEGOs were the extra pieces that you got in the sets that you didn’t actually use,” says Gazdus. As a kid growing up in the Red Bank area of New Jersey, she would sell bracelets on the beach to fund her LEGO purchases. She started off simple, making things with cardboard and clay.
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