Faculty and Staff Profile: Pat Irwin

Emma Cooney, Managing Editor

Pat Irwin

Basic Info:

What are you teaching/working on at Prep?

The same thing I’ve been doing for the last two years, which is AP Computer Science

Where did you grow up?

Bellevue, WA

What College or University did you attend?

Purdue

More About You:

What was you first job?

Paperboy for the Seattle Times

Best book you read this summer?

“The Emperor of All Maladies”

What was the highlight of your summer?

Being invited to the Caribbean Islands by a friend

Where did you go to high school?

Seattle Prep

What was the most popular song during your senior year of high school?

Any Beatles song

What career did you want to pursue in high school?

Computer Science

Random:

What is your favorite movie?

“Yankee Doodle Dandy”

What is your favorite TV show?

Any science or math show

If you could arrest a person for something that annoys you (but isn’t necessarily a law) what would it be?

Lying Politicians

What is a skill you wish you had?

Dancing, coordinating colors in clothing

Finish the sentence…

I’d love to go back to… high school.

I always forget to… I rarely forget anything.

If I weren’t at Prep, I’d be… I am only here during zero period as it is.