Lee Bissett
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Lee P. Bissett - TA, Instructor, and Academic Coordinator. Lee began his TIP career at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, as a mid-term hire. As fate would have it, it was the best mid-term hire that the main office ever made. He returned the next year as an instructor at ASU. Following a half-serious conversation with former academic big-boss Angela Teachey, Lee's classes were transferred to the center for summer studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS, where his TA was Ryan Scarrow. The following summer, 2006, with former Academic Coordinator Brett Cooper stepping down for a summer to get married, Lee stepped up and assumed academic control as the AC.
Rumors circulated that Lee would be an OSC someday; however, these rumors have been denied by Mr. Bissett himself. Perhaps returning to Boone, NC will entice him to step up once again, and assume total TIP dominance.
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[edit] Education
Lee graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelors in economics in 2004. He went on to the University of Maryland to receive his Masters degree in economics in 2006. Lee claims that his area of expertise international finance, but it is under general consensus that he’s just a major economics bad-ass.
[edit] Hair
Known for extreme antics and the motto “anything for the kids,” Lee offered his hair up as a prize both sessions of TIP at Kansas, 2006. Both terms selected that Lee’s hair be turned purple; however, Lee, weary of purple hair, opted to dye it royal blue. With the help of chief trouble maker Sarah Cash, and Medical Science instructor Julie Gaston, Lee’s hair turned a strawberry-blonde laden purple in the first term, and bright royal blue the second term.
[edit] The TA Curse
Both years of Lee’s instructor tenure, he had fun-loving TA’s. At the end of term in Boone, he was approached by a man who informed him, “I made out with your TA last night.” Thinking it odd, Lee accepted that his female TA had a fun last night of TIP, and moved on. The following year at [[|University of Kansas|Kansas]], however, a female RC continued the tradition informing him that she had made out with TA Ryan Scarrow the previous night. There is currently a 70-page waiting list to be Lee’s next TA.
[edit] Thoreau Leanings
Lee often expresses his desires to go and “live in the woods” and only do TIP in the summers in order to procure the money necessary to buy that which he cannot produce as a sustinance farmer. Admittedly, Walden is one of his favorite books.
