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...course, Harvard College is one thing. The United States of America is a much bigger thing. Andrew and Matt had to choose not only where to go, but also how to go, when to go, and how long to stay. To make these choices, they relied on one repeated question—what are we least likely ever to see again?—but also on intuition, culturally ingrained preference, and “Let’s Go.” Sometimes they were limited by what was possible (talking to a small farmer in South Dakota...
...another had draped Mardi Gras beads around his neck and propped a handwritten sign in front of him: MAKING ‘MONEY’ FOR MY ‘HONEY,’ it said. I pointed to the sign. “Yeah,” Matt said. “We’ve seen a lot of misused quotes.” It was one of the few broad conclusions they shared the whole week...
...When we were imagining the trip, we imagined that we’ll be sitting in, like, St. Louis, and it’ll just be: St. Louis, St. Louis, St. Louis—just soaking it all up,” Matt explained. “But it’s not like that. It’s just normal.” Andrew nodded. “There’s no great epiphany,” he said. “It’s not like there is some moment when you’re like...
Nevertheless, they were confident they wouldn’t leave the trip having learned nothing. Experience made Matt sure of that: he’d had only five minutes with the Harvard students whose dorms he visited during last spring’s campaign, but he said he left the blitz knowing more about them than when he started. “I totally understand,” Matt said when I asked him if he was serious. “It doesn’t seem like you could really grasp anything, but you can. You definitely learn about...
Acknowledging all of this, Matt and Andrew avoided broad conclusions with fierce determination. Instead, they stuck to safer ground: story-telling. Sitting in the French Quarter, they filled...