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...York to New York, by way of America,” Matt had said when the guy in the Penn shirt asked what they were doing in Nashville. The truth is, the exact details depend on whom...
None of this was on Matt and Andrew’s minds as they stood outside the bar in Nashville, trying to figure out where to go next. Sure, Matt is from Long Island, Andrew just north of San Francisco, and between them they have only ever lived in sky blue, major metropolitan areas. But by that night in late July, all that stuff in the middle was starting to feel like what it is: their country...
...Matt’s telling, providence played a leading role. At the start of last year, someone posted a map of the United States at the bottom of Winthrop’s F entryway; around the same time, Winthrop’s housing director assigned Matt and Andrew to F-43. It was like when the stars pulled Romeo and Juliet to the same costume party, except without the untimely deaths. Soon, they were spending idle time at the bottom of the entryway, staring at those 50 states, so many oddly shaped unknowns, longing. By the spring they made their...
...grasp the concept; “going on a trip” didn’t seem like much of a plan. “For what?” people would ask. “What are you doing? Is this for your thesis?” Matt and Andrew have long been of the David Brooks, today’s-college-students-have-sold-their-souls school of thought, so issuing an emphatic “no” probably brought each a fair amount of satisfaction. Why were they dropping everything to drive around America...
...concept may have been difficult to grasp in part because Matt and Andrew might be this school’s least likely candidates for rebels against the Harvard grind. Last spring, when Matt ran for Undergraduate Council president, in a campaign even his predecessors agree was the best organized in UC history, Andrew was his number-one asset. As campaign manager, he woke up at seven every morning to prepare a schedule for Matt and his running mate, Clay T. Capp ’06. He organized an army of supporters to escort Matt and Clay around the dorms...