Meet the Graduate Assistants: Isaac Wink

We’re excited to introduce you to another wonderful iSchool Help Desk Graduate Assistant today, this time a familiar face in the Meet the Help Desk GAs series! We quizzed Isaac Wink on his go-to board game, favourite campus hang-out spot, and his job (!) plans after graduation.

Isaac

Isaac Wink, a glasses-wearing, brown-haired, bearded man wearing a plaid shirt.

Isaac is an Illinois native from Burban and a second-year graduate student in his last semester at the iSchool. As an MSLIS student, he was interested in pursuing academic librarianship, digital humanities, and lowering barriers to technology. After graduation, Isaac will be working as a Research Data Librarian at the University of Kentucky. He’s very excited for it!

  • What is your favorite part about working at the Help Desk?
    • Getting to meet professors, staff and what’s going on, events, free food!
  • What is your favorite board/video game?
    • Twilight Struggle
  • If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
    • Live in a bunch of house types, loft, cabin, tiny apartments in NYC etc.
An apartment complex, a cabin, and a group of high rise buildings.
  • Where’s your favorite spot to hang out on campus/CU?
    • The Blind Pig
  • What would your superhero superpower be?
    • Invisibility
  • What technology are you *really* most interested in for teaching/learning? Zoom is not an acceptable answer. 😀
    • Google Colab
  • If you were an animal, what would you be?
    • A duck.
A duck with a sprout on its head, sitting on a lily pad.
  • Who would (or would you want to) play you in a movie about your life?
    • Oscar Isaac.

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