this is Chang at the fair and right now
I have with me Carter and Megan would
you care to tell everyone about
yourselves yeah sure so my name is
Carter I'm a sophomore in lever house
I'm from Orange County California and
I'm studying computer science do you
surf
I do not serve I body surf but I'm just
too big to surf I guess
and I'm a you know I'm a free spirit
living in Canada studying to be a
scientist I'm from suburbs of Chicago
sorry suburbs of Chicago okay I don't
know what people do that for fun so I
can't make a joke there but let's take a
look at all your projects so what we
have here is Harvard marketplace
essentially and our goal essentially is
so every one of like the Harvard
community could sell any like use books
or like have senior sales at the end of
the year I'll put in really just a
centralized location to sell or buy any
items it's all login right now
right when you log in there it shows an
index of all the posted items starting
from the most recent if you want you can
search by category so if Megan's looking
for clothes she can click on clothes and
then filter and all items that are this
and their clothes will show up if she
wants to do like a more advanced search
she can go to search and type in the
Xbox and Apple come Xbox 360 and if you
want to buy an item you click on view
more
oh yeah there we go and when you click
on View more you'll get a short
description of what the Xbox is like or
whatever this was a turtleneck and the
sellers contact information so you can
email them and then do do the
transaction independently if you want to
post an item then you go to the cell up
in the top navigation bar and just enter
the information
it's like a trading post it and it
appears on the index at the most recent
post and like let's say that she doesn't
want to sell her sweater anymore or they
got bought and she goes to your items
and just lets delete and it's removed
from the database looks like it's
everything we need for a surviving
marketplace what inspired you to yeah so
at least the semester is seeing a lot of
seniors at least like changing or like
trying to like sell out clear out their
closet I'm sending out these like large
PowerPoint slides of a bunch of clothing
they have all those kind of chaotic so
we thought that having a more
centralized location so that they can
really reach everybody within the
Harvard community it'll be a lot more
efficient
do you have any ideas of how to get
people to use this I guess clubbing
social media yeah I was thinking some
kind of viral marketing campaign you
know we get David to list some of the
stuff in his office I'm sure people have
to buy so maybe this interview is gonna
go viral
and everyone sign up well we can make a
DVD you two can autograph it and put it
on there anything more generally do you
two know what I'm you're concentrating
yeah yeah so right now Priscilla but
anything in this phone booth so going
into this year I was gonna do a PI math
but after taking cs50 I decided to
switch to computer science Wow
so what's effective on convincing one of
you to take your time but yeah but
seriously you know cs50 is a pretty
broad poor it's pretty useful so no
matter what customization going to
hopefully the skills are useful great
well thanks for talking to me
back to you too