- Name, job title, and location. Scott Tyson, Senior Software Developer. I’m based in Lauinger Library.
- What do you do—in 10 words or less? I develop and maintain software applications for the Library.
- Where are you from? I grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, a few miles north of campus.
- Do you have any hobbies? I enjoy listening to music, cooking, and cross-country skiing in the winter.
- What are you reading/watching/playing/listening to/learning right now? I’m reading Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, listening to Thievery Corporation, and playing chess.
- If you had to live in a different time period, which would you pick and why? I’d like to live during the Renaissance around great inventors and artists like Leonardo da Vinci.
- What is your favorite thing about Georgetown? My favorite thing about Georgetown is the kind people. I also love our stunning views of the Potomac.
- Is there anything from the past that you wish would come back into fashion? I’d like to see eighteenth-century letter writing come back. Using ink and quill for long-form correspondence sounds impractical but fun.
- What's your strategy for enjoying summer? Be one with H2O! In the summer, I hydrate almost excessively and swim whenever possible.
- If you didn’t work in your current field, what would you be doing? I’d be a farmer so that I could spend plenty of time outdoors in the countryside.