User:AndrewTutt

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[edit] Who I Am

I am Andrew Tutt a BME major in the class of 2009 at Duke University. You can email me at tutt.andrew@gmail.com. I have Adminstrative and Bureaucratic privileges on the Duke University Wiki at http://www.duiki.com which I am more than happy to share with anyone who feels they'd like to put in a few minutes here and there each week.

[edit] About Me

Well, I do many things on campus, having been blessed with a remarkable breadth of interests and lack of social skills.

Let's see, I graduated from Davis Senior High School in 2005. I currently plan a Biomedical Engineering & Economics double-major (With a double-secret Math major attached).

In addition to working with Duke University Improv, I started Wired 2 Achieve, a computer refurbishment initiative which has collected hundreds of computers donated them to organizations ranging from Read Seed in Durham to a group of students headed for Ecuador to build a computer lab. I also created the Duke Journal of Public Affairs, a journal of undergraduate scholarship in the social sciences, which released its first issue in April 2006 and is still going strong. I also sparked interest in a Duke Conversations Society, and thanks to the remarkable work of the people who helped refine the idea, we have had several incredible events over the past year.

I once undertook independent study research of the NPR1 protein pathway in Arabidopsis in the lab of Dr. Xinnian Dong, and continued that research as a recipient of the Howard Hughes Research fellowship in the summer of 2005. I used to coordinate all the physics demonstrations for the Techtronics program, putting on something like 40 in my freshman year, though now I am a full-fledged fellow (yay.). I also serve as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Young Investigators (and still do to this day).

In my spare time, I work in the Library behind the Circulation Desk, and now enjoy the benefits of working as a Supervisor there, which means I get a key and can read whenever I want. (double yay.) I enjoy web design, and developed the the Innoworks website, as well as that of Duke University Improv (and quite a few others). I still (2006) really want to earn a D. Phil (problably in English) from Oxford after graduation, so that I might root my political leanings in deeper philosophies, but the path to get there may be longer than I once thought.

[edit] Books read in the summer of '05

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you thought...

  1. Beloved
  2. American Pastoral
  3. Confederacy of Dunces
  4. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West (great book.)
  5. Letters to a Young Contrarian
  6. Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads (lol)

[edit] Sophomore Year

Sophomore year at Duke was marked by a few notable endeavors, mostly continuing and strengthening projects from Freshman year. I did however run for DSG President which is always an interesting story.

In May of 2007 I spoke at an event that brought Duke closer to home for many alumni called "A Duke Conversation" along with Seyward Darby, President Brodhead and Erwin Chemerinsky. We had a lot of fun.

[edit] Goals for Duiki

Anyway, I have only a couple goals, which people can feel free to comment on and disagree with.

  • Make Duiki Unique - Here, it's pretty simple. If you can already find the info easily somewhere else, why use Duiki at all? If it's especially useful, hard to find, or well known, I think it belongs, and especially if its personal, insightful or not often shared through official sources ;)
  • Make Duiki Worthwhile - This is the only other goal, and it's pretty obvious. I don't even care if we make it successfully or often visited. If it's worthwhile, it's worth it.

[edit] Short-Term Focus

I will be focusing most of my energies on backend issues, like implementation, etc. I will try to avoid doing too much administering if I can. My principle focus will be on the front page, particularly in emulating and improving the Dukepass Website.

  • So my short term focus has expanded to making Duiki more functional if you are not here to use it as an encyclopedic reference, but instead as, say, a homepage. The <rss> tags are WONDERFUL. --DuikiSysop 11:25, 19 July 2006 (MDT)
    • So, I have actually turned now toward making the frontpage MORE like a reference/guide, which I think is a more reasonable expectation of our niche.

[edit] Photo Pages

These are pages of photos I have taken for the wiki.