Flyby’s Official 2025 Housing Day Video Ranking

With a stellar suite of Housing Day videos this year, we know that you’re all confused as to which were the best. (You definitely haven’t entirely forgotten about them and moved on with your life, like a normal person.) We had a spare two hours on our hands — not really, but we had to do something to procrastinate on studying for our midterms — so we were nice enough to rank them for you. Now you can stop trying to have opinions and just let us tell you how to feel.

S Tier

Pfoho

Expecting a pflop? None were found here — this year, Pfoho was the one to beat. The story of putting Pfoho back on the map led to seamless transitions between songs and a storyline that we eagerly followed. We enjoyed the self-awareness regarding Passio GO!’s pfunctionality (or lack thereof) and the cute little graphics, but we still have one lingering question: What was your dress code in the bell tower suite scene? Besides being on the longer side, we thought this was all around pfhenomenal. Bravo, polar bears.

A Tier

Currier

Currier, you were so, so close to a threepeat (or should we say treepeat?), but to be honest the bar wasn’t raised this year. Your song choices were wonderful, though a little hard for our writers to pick up on (apparently sticky is about sticks, not sticky floors); you showcased your community (shoutout Lauren Scruggs ’25); and you even showed off vocals that had us all stunned. Your close-up shots, though? Those stunned us in a not-so-great way. But all in all, this type of feelgood performance was expected of you. So good job, Currier, you land in A tier.

Kirkland

Even though the subtitles started late into the video — and y’all were quiet during those news reporter scenes — Kirk outdid themselves with not only a cohesive theme throughout the entire video but also one that speaks true to the vibe of the house. This video had us wanting to be River West Princesses with rodent subjects (which is a sentence that we never thought we would say — ever). You might want to invest in a new boar mascot for next Housing Day, though, as we all agreed that this one looks especially punchable.

Quincy

It’s no shock that Quincy lands itself in A tier with their lyrics; truly no House brought disses like the Q (sorry Leverett). But even with all of the hate they were dishing, Quincy found a way to balance out this energy by showcasing their cute, wholesome community that happens to include people from almost all walks of Harvard’s campus. The one downside to this video? The different video styles — flashing between camcorder, (vertical) iPhone, and the highest quality camera we have ever seen only slightly stressed us out. Stay pengu(w)inning.

B Tier

Eliot

Eliot, oh Eliot. While we found ourselves questioning why the tunnels were the part of your beautiful House that you chose to showcase the most, the lyrics and energy of this video spoke true to the Domus. Maybe the tunnels had such a starring role because your House is literally falling apart — shoutout to that one drone shot at the end that showed that your bell tower needs some work — but we’re honestly not sure. But either way, we were obsessed with your faculty dean’s sequined jacket, orchestral introduction, and House participation. Fête for Fête? We can go B for B (tier).

Lowell

This year, Lowell provided us with a solid example of what a Housing Day video should be: the perfect combination of personal House hype, balanced with smooth disses of other Houses. And they managed that while releasing first of all of the Houses? Chef’s kiss. Between the immaculate transitions, cinematography, and disses (Adams robbers? Quincy drive thru? Yes.), we could tell that this was a video that took time and dedication. Our only request? More Lowellians! Solid work here.

Cabot

Alas we fall upon the Quadfather — who was stroking a fish in the beginning of this video? Even though this video’s music was a tad quiet for our liking, we appreciated how committed to the bit you were. The House’s musicians brought a wonderful energy, yet we found the piano sequence to be a bit random. Were we in heaven? Is Cabot… heaven? To be honest, after this video it might be.

C Tier

Dunster

Dunster completely met our expectations with a musical theater-esque video this year. Your different Chappells had us in awe (especially Chappell number two), yet your costumes did not compare to Adams. We liked how many parts of the House community you were able to showcase, but your lyrics were kind of weak. Good job for venturing out of your comfort zone with the rap segment, though! (Whether or not you should’ve is another matter.) DUNSTAAAAAAA will be running through our heads rent free for the next 24 hours.

Adams

There was a lot going on in this video — nuts, an entire rainbow of colors, and so many costumes (or the lack thereof… Was this shirtless scene in the gym necessary? We see you with your 10-pound weights, sirs.) We enjoyed how Adams-centric this video was, yet we were waiting for more disses towards other Houses — Eliot can’t bear the burden of all of the Housing Day drama. Also we found this video to be especially long. We love all of the song choices you made, but didn’t need them to all be full-length. We’ll meet you at the Oaktel… we mean the middle of the C tier.

Mather

This is a tower!!! Thank you for reminding us! We were very impressed with the musical choices of this video, yet we found that the background music sometimes overpowered the actual vocals. Beyond this slower start, we liked that this was an accurate representation of what living in Mather would look like. But is this something that we would want? Not totally convinced by the end of this video. (Personally, we do not think we would rock those red sweatbands like you all did.) Not bad, but not great.

D Tier

Leverett

Hey, at least this is an improvement from last year! (We realize that it’s a lower tier than you had last year, but the competition this year was steep.) Leverett was actually able to gather a crowd (of four people, rather than three) to showcase in their video! Bravo! Even though the video started off strong with its choice in songs, the lyrics AND video shaking was a bit much for us, especially in the beginning. Let’s tone down the editing next time. Also, what do you mean by “It’s probably on fire”? If anyone could explain this to us, we would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise this video was quite cute, but not comparable to the greater batch we were presented with. Continue to fluff them up in D tier, Lev, whatever that might mean to you.

F Tier

Winthrop

Instead of a pflop, this year we got a thrflop. Your faculty deans even said that you needed this video to put you back on the map, and THIS is what you present us with? We were shocked. Why was none of the filming done in the House… Do you live in the Business School parking lot? Why were you on a Zamboni? Are there more than three people who live in your House? Why is Cynthia Erivo here? We thought that you would redeem yourselves with part two, but to be honest, we should have just saved our time and moved on. 14 minutes of our lives we will never get back. Womp womp.

We realize that you probably don’t agree with our ranking. And that is okay. Everyone’s allowed to be wrong sometimes. You’re just lucky you have us around to correct you.