· Updated January 16, 2025 12:19 AM · 3 min read read
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Before college, I had never really been challenged in my political beliefs. I grew up on the shoreline of Connecticut and went to Catholic school there for fourteen years. In that environment, most of the people I interacted with agreed with me morally and politically, at least on most of the issues that I knew and cared about.
All of that changed, however, when I started my freshman year of college at "The Kremlin on the Charles," as Harvard has become known. Many of the people that I
Before college, I had never really been challenged in my political beliefs. I grew up on the shoreline of Connecticut and went to Catholic school there for fourteen years. In that environment, most of the people I interacted with agreed with me morally and politically, at least on most of the issues that I knew and cared about.
All of that changed, however, when I started my freshman year of college at "The Kremlin on the Charles," as Harvard has become known. Many of the people that I met were…