Jason English
Put Your Hands Together for Will Treece!
by Jason English - June 16, 2010 - 2:55 PM

I’m very excited to introduce the newest member of the mental_floss team, Swarthmore’s Will Treece! Will’s going to be helping us out this summer. Here’s his bio:

Will Treece grew up in Tokyo, lives in Detroit, and is currently a History major at Swarthmore College. Highlights of his life include playing in the Japanese National Scrabble Championship, his North Korea-themed 18th birthday party, and lip-syncing a rap about Poe’s “The Raven” in front of his entire high school. He’ll be providing mental_floss with tasty historical tidbits this summer, and he really likes maps.

Will’s in charge of a new daily feature for us called The Number of the Day, which begins tomorrow. (Yes, we stole the idea from Sesame Street.) He’ll also be working on articles and quizzes. Make him feel welcome!

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Comments (19)

  1. Welcome, Will. I use this site for personal happiness and to trick my students who think history, science and other academic pursuits are boring. :) I look forward to your contributions!

    posted by Helenann on 6-16-2010 at 3:02 pm

  2. hi will!

    posted by nicole on 6-16-2010 at 3:02 pm

  3. “he really likes maps”

    Welcome. You’re my new BFF!

    posted by Dayna on 6-16-2010 at 3:23 pm

  4. “and he really likes maps.”

    Sounds like we’ll get along just fine…

    Welcome aboard, Will.

    posted by SpaceMonkeyX on 6-16-2010 at 3:26 pm

  5. Welcome Will!!

    You had me at the rap about “The Raven”. Looking forward to your tidbits on history!

    posted by Meg on 6-16-2010 at 3:31 pm

  6. Hurrah! A history major!! Welcome, Will!

    posted by Hummer on 6-16-2010 at 3:43 pm

  7. That’s funny…in high school my friends and I made a music video to a song we wrote about Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”. Welcome, Will!

    posted by Nicole on 6-16-2010 at 3:56 pm

  8. I don’t mean to haze the new guy… but lip sync-ing a rap? Seriously? Why not just wear a sign reading “I have no obvious talents”?

    Now get me some coffee, rookie!

    Just kidding… welcome aboard.

    posted by TBV on 6-16-2010 at 3:58 pm

  9. Welcome Will. I can’t wait to see your contributions and hope you’re enjoying your time here in Delaware County.

    posted by Jess on 6-16-2010 at 4:59 pm

  10. willkommen bienvenue welcome!!!!!!

    posted by David K. Israel on 6-16-2010 at 5:36 pm

  11. Welcome aboard, Will!

    posted by Miss Cellania on 6-16-2010 at 6:58 pm

  12. Ahhh…fresh meat. Welcome!

    posted by Chris on 6-16-2010 at 8:23 pm

  13. north goes to the top.

    posted by dirk alan on 6-16-2010 at 8:57 pm

  14. Welcome Will. You are so lucky.

    Looking forward to your contributions.

    Have fun.

    posted by Sue on 6-16-2010 at 10:46 pm

  15. Haaaaaai will :)
    I <33 history so I can't wait to see what you'll find for my knowledge-hungry brain :D

    posted by cassy on 6-16-2010 at 11:24 pm

  16. Welcome! I hope you have lots of awesome maps to show =)

    posted by Christina on 6-17-2010 at 8:04 am

  17. Mental_floss always has room for Scrabble Geniuses! I look forward to your first contribution to the already copious amount of Awesome that is M_F.

    Benvenuti, Will! Speriamo che trovi bene gli amici di Mental_Floss perche ti troviamo gia davvero benissimo!

    posted by Kate on 6-17-2010 at 8:49 am

  18. YAY for history nerds! SCORE

    posted by tessa on 6-17-2010 at 12:24 pm

  19. “he really likes maps”

    I’m not the only one???

    posted by Wayne on 6-17-2010 at 1:50 pm

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