#  Stuart Schechter 

Senior Common Room

 

 

 



   ![Stuart headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-11/Schechter%20Face.jpeg?itok=Zwqax_Ae) 

 



 

 email <stuartschechter@g.harvard.edu> 

 



 

You know you're a misfit when you’re considered odd within institutions (Harvard) research fields (computer security), and communities (ethical non-monogamy) that attract fellow misfits. For example, I'm a scientist insofar as I conduct scientific experiments, but I am deeply uncomfortable with the time and effort scientists enthusiastically dedicate to ranking our peers and promoting ourselves, often thinly veiled as reviewing others’ work and advocating for our own. I thus try to engage with academic science, technology, business, and entrepreneurship in ways that limit my complicity in practices that conflict with my moral compass. I love engaging with undergraduates and others not yet indoctrinated to believe the rules of the “adult” world are sensible and immutable. My experience in house life includes nine years as a Resident Tutor in Leverett. Outside my work/campus life, I am the primary parent of two daughters (born 2006 &amp; 2009), I rock climb, and bike.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Area
    
     [Senior Common Room (SCR)](/area/senior-common-room-scr)
- ## Role
    
     [Senior Common Room](/role/senior-common-room)