“I love engineering because I can use materials to create something entirely new that wasn’t there before. I guess I got my start building sets for the Middlesex theater”
Gage Coffin '09
There are an infinite number of paths you might take to discover the things you're most passionate about in life, and you'd be surprised at how those things are connected. To get an idea of how people find their promise here at Middlesex, click on one of the topics below.
When Gage was a freshman at Middlesex, he loved to throw rocks. To know Gage is to understand that the activity was far from remedial. You see, Gage didn’t simply hurl rocks with his arm –he fired them from a large catapult that he designed and built himself. The catapult was a product of his particular aptitude in math and physics, and soon Gage would launch himself down an academic track that would lead to the mechanical engineering department at Stanford University.
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