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Frederick K.K. Du Puy...
...past four years Rick Du Puy has spent the first Saturday of December participating in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Du Puy knows he has no chance of winning. He knows he is one of only a handful of humanities concentrators spending six hours in the Science Center trying to solve 12 proofs. But, as he says, “Emotionally I miss math a lot. The exam is like my Peter Pan. I don’t do well but it’s a fun thing to do. It keeps math alive for me. You emerge...
...humor is only part of Du Puy’s very un-Harvard attitude. “Freshman year I thought I would be so interesting,” says Du Puy, who describes himself as shy but unconventional. “But in retrospect, I haven’t been.” This comes from a classics and music concentrator who worked on his class’ first-year musical, has performed in several shows, rings the Lowell House bells, tried out for X-Rated “on a whim” and ended up being...
...Rick Du Puy: People find this hard to believe, but it was actually comfort. Your knees can become topically cold, but its not as if your knees are as important as your shoulders or your neck. If your shoulders or your neck are warm, you are warm. If your knees are cold, you can live with that. You can put up with that for short periods of time, and it college in the winter youre mostly just walking between buildings anyway. When Im indoors, I always find pants are too warm...
...occasionally meet people nowadays who say, I remember you, youre the boy who wears shorts. My roommate (Scott A. Rechler 03) says its how he explains who his roommate isDo you know Rick Du Puy? No. Do you know the guy who wears shorts all the time...