TIPwiki

By Megan Valentine


When you get home from TIP do you find yourself reminiscing about friends and inside jokes you made while there? Well, if you do then a good place for you to visit might be TIPWiki.
TIPWiki is a website, made to resemble the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, where TIPsters, old and young, can freely post information about TIP and their experiences.
TIPWiki was created by past TIPster, Jason “Timmy” LaRue, from the Davidson and Duke East campuses. It is currently being run by Anthony Chivetta, another TIPster from Duke East, who took over for Timmy after his computer kept crashing not only causing his computer to be down but the site as well.
Although Anthony runs the site anyone can contribute to its content, so long as it follows TIPWiki’s standards and policies. On the site you can find basically anything and everything you ever wanted to know about TIP and all of its campuses by reading the 647 articles that have been posted to it.

When you search for UGA on TIPwiki you will find a short summary about its history with the TIP program. Also on the page is a list of traditions and a list of the “original fourth years” from both term 1 and 2. The traditions listed on the page range from the staff vs. student ultimate Frisbee game to some that are specifically term 1 traditions, such as The Ninjas, a group of fourth year boys who are known for “appearing when you least expect it”.

You can also view information about each campus’s official TIP songs and past RCs, dating all the way back to 2001. One of the more popular pages amongst TIPsters who have been to TIPWiki is the relationTIP page. It lists every relationTIP from all the campuses since 2003, it even has a list of relationTIPs from UGA Term 2 2010.

TIPWiki is the perfect place for TIPsters to visit if they just can’t get enough of TIP. It’s a great place to keep track of inside jokes, traditions, and all the little things about each year of TIP.

If you would like to see the site, add your own jokes and information, and even design the official TIPWiki logo, then go to http://www.tipwiki.net/

Megan Valentine, 16, is a junior at Reagan High School in Winston Salem, N.C.