This is what a conservative looks like at Harvard

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 disgusted with conservatism, had misconceptions of what I, as a conservative, might believe, or simply didn't think that a college-age woman might disagree with modern feminism and liberalism. I was often met with disbelief when I expressed conservative viewpoints.