The Scoop
Room & Bored? — Inside Harvard’s Twelve Housing Lotteries
While Housing Day is governed by a centralized algorithm, Houses’ upperclassman lotteries are far from standardized.
From Coop to Campus
During Cas Li’s sophomore year, they began selling eggs from their family’s backyard chicken coop in Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Currierwire email list.
Peggy Yin portrait
Peggy Y. Yin ’25 is part of a team that designed the AI chat platform Future You, which she describes as "a tool that allows people to explore different possibilities of their future."
Seeing Your Future Self with Future You AI
How much can an AI chatbot tell you about your future based on the choices you make?
Parsing the Past of Our Present in History 10
The new gateway course, which aims to expose students to different ways of doing, practicing, and talking about history, was advertised on Canvas under the headline: “Not your high school history class!”
Could Strangers Become a Thing of the Past?
Media outlets have framed Caine A. Ardayfio ’25-26 and AnhPhu D. Nguyen ’25-26 as architects of a terrifying doxxing device. But the pair argue that their new facial recognition glasses are a “public awareness campaign.”
Caine Ardayfio portrait
I-XRAY leverages the recording function in the smart glasses to feed video footage directly to users’ phones via an Instagram livestream. An algorithm written by Ardayfio and Nguyen then detects faces in the footage and prompts face search engines to scour the internet for matching images.
Third Floor Biolabs
The third floor of Bio Labs has had a long history of hosting Nobel Prize winners, though some professors contest using the awards as a metric for the floor's success.
AI glasses vertical portrait
Ardayfio and Nguyen argue that their “awareness campaign” has taught people how easily others can access their personal information on the internet, challenging people’s assumptions of how they should act and whom they should trust in public.
AI Glasses Cover Photo
Caine A. Ardayfio '25-'26 and AnhPhu D. Nguyen '25-'26 met in a makerspace their freshman year. Now, the pair have created a pair of AI sunglasses that can provide wearers with information about strangers.
Rich Losick portrait
Molecular and Cellular Biology professor Richard M. Losick views the Bio Labs as a "Nobel incubator."
Is the Bio Lab a “Nobel Incubator?”
To Molecular and Cellular Biology professor Richard M. Losick, an intense culture focused on scientific excellence had resulted in the Bio Labs becoming a “Nobel incubator." But colleagues of his disagree.
House or Home? Recent Grads’ Strategies of Stickin’ Around
No more than four rooms in the dorms or in faculty deans’ residences of each house are earmarked every year for these people who love Harvard so much that they stay, simultaneously building community and operating in the shadows.
Quincy house aides photo
In Quincy, house aides bake in bulk for the faculty deans’ famous open houses, cook for events such as “Feast and Film,” and organize Quincy’s Junior Family Weekend.
