Stir the Pot, Fighting Irish
A Day in the Life Through the Decades
Issues
Nostalgic for a Life I Never Lived
Being 18 today means living in a world where everything is technically at our fingertips, but actual physical connection feels surprisingly out of reach. Born in 2008, I missed the early 2000s entirely, yet my generation is completely obsessed with Y2K aesthetics — baggy jeans, digital cameras, wired…
The Fall and Rise of the Digital Camera
1975: Steven Sasson, engineer at Eastman Kodak, builds the first digital camera.
It weighs eight pounds and was far too heavy for commercial use.
…Guest Essay: What Murals Don't Say
Most Notre Dame students have walked through the Main Building. Many have passed murals, plaques and portraits without stopping to ask what stories they tell, or what stories they leave out.
Or at least, I remember doing exactly that. At first, these images felt familiar. They reflected the…
TBT: Scholastic in History
Notre Dame’s oldest publication has certainly seen its share of historical events. One of my favorite lines from the Dec. 12, 1941 edition of Scholastic is the opening of Ray Donovan’s “Introducing,” which discusses the state of the men’s basketball team: “Defense is the keynote throughout the United…
“Comely Coeds”: How Student Media Covered Notre Dame’s First Undergraduate Women
Fifty years after the first coeducational class graduated, the campus papers of the time show a campus far more focused on a failed merger than on the women about to arrive.
AI at Notre Dame
What do we owe our own work?
Data Centers Everywhere
Growing up in Northern Virginia meant reaping the benefits of proximity to our nation’s capital. From field trips to the Smithsonian museums, walks across the National Mall and many hours spent on the Metro (objectively the best public transportation system on the East Coast), I was spoiled from an…
What ChatGPT Can and Can't Handle
Yeah, This Is Going to Chat:
1. Petition to bring back Taco Bell
I plan to unleash a small army of my AI bots onto the emails of StuGov, SUB, the LaFun Building Manager and Father Bob. My bots will petition these higher powers for a gift to the student population:…
Is AI Good for Humanity?
What are the odds that AI kills the whole of humanity? Apparently greater than 10%, at least according to a top researcher at Anthropic. Who could have predicted we would reach this point? If someone went back in time to four years ago, around the time ChatGPT became available to the public, and told…
A Big Burden
As I was preparing for college, I decided to invest in a new MacBook Air and an iPad paired with the latest Apple Pencil, following the recommendations of many of my friends. They all recommended it as the best way to take notes, study and organize everything I would need for my courses. I quickly…
A Better Prompt
The Answer to AI Might Be a Better Assignment
AI’s Next Target: Up and Coming Musicians
There is a little island in the Caribbean known as the Dominican Republic. Poverty is the way of life for many of the citizens there due to ongoing corruption with police officers and government officials. The Dominican Republic has long been known for producing breakthrough artists that are recognized…
The Power of Real
I knew that AI was bad. I didn’t know how ugly it was.
Over the summer, I had the privilege of studying with the CNN Academy Summer Institute and Simulation in their Storytelling in the Age of AI program. Long-winded name aside, it was an amazing opportunity to learn about the ethical applications…
AI at ND
How the University's Policy on AI Use is Evolving
TBT: From Keypunch to Claude
“It used to take students four or five classes to analyze the total form of a sonnet. Now, once the sonnet is key punched and fed into the computer, its form can be analyzed in only two minutes,” marvelled Dr. Edward Kline, former Director of Graduate Studies in English at Notre Dame.
It was…
From Dome to Dome
How alum Michael Boland leverages Catholic social teaching and policy to shape AI guardrails through his company, Dome Compass.
I Asked ChatGPT to Make Me a Perfect 4.0 Student
I would consider myself to be a mostly responsible student. I go to class, do my assignments on time and Google Calendar is my best friend. So when I asked ChatGPT to make me the “perfect” Notre Dame student, I wasn’t looking to completely change my schedule, but instead to optimize it.
ChatGPT’s…
Catapult Technology
What are those sports bras every athlete is wearing over their clothes?
Fighting Irish: Is AI a Good Substitute for Human Relationships?
Some users of AI have found an unexpected utility ... emotional support. Do you agree with Reese's "yae" or Ariel's "nay" argument?