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Oooh, headcanons!

I headcanon Matt and Foggy meeting in law school and having no prior contact. Based on Foggy's question about whether Matt knows a good place to get a coffee on the Columbia campus AND then saying that he does, I headcanon him as doing an undergrad at Columbia. (I have a whole notebook of notes about the undergrad adventures of Matt and Foggy, no joke.) I headcanon Foggy as having taken Human Rights. Oh, and definitely psychology for those science modules.

As for Matt - I think he did undergrad at NYU. The Public Policy major, because that fits well with his views overall.

Whee! Someone who has my headcanon on Matt's undergrad!

(...says the person who pointed out how public policy would fit with his Thurgood Marshall fixation upthread.)

I've noticed! I gasped when I saw your comment. I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HEADCANONS THIS. Like, this makes a whole lot of sense imo. A WHOLE. Plus allows for an interesting interaction between Matt the NYC graduate and - in my case - Foggy the Columbia graduate who knows the campus and the people and everything. While Matt just trails behind, because whelp.

AYRT: Honestly, Foggy as Columbia undergrad is starting to grow on me. The show makes it clear that Foggy tends to like to stick with people/places. Maybe it's because he has taken up law with his law school roommate (and then fellow intern) in his old neighborhood (Hell's Kitchen), where he can identify the vast majority of people around him in the watering hole where the bartender knows him pretty well? (Sorry, that scene with Foggy and Karen at Josie's is so central to my conception of his character that I am still having trouble with another commenter who described it as something like "Foggy blows off Karen's concerns as having no validity." Wait, what?) So I can well believe that he went to Columbia for his undergrad and then stayed there all the way through law school. That's very in-character.

Whereas Matt... My headcanon is that Matt was wooed back to Hell's Kitchen by Foggy (just as Foggy attempted to portray the neighborhood in teh best possible light for Karen in the scene I was just talking about). He always wanted to be a lawyer for JUSTICE!, but it might not have been in Hell's Kitchen if he hadn't ended up with Foggy. Matt wants to prove that he's more than his disability, so doing that by not limiting himself to one area he knows well makes sense to me. Hence his different undergrad than grad school.

TL;DR: Foggy gets very committed to places (and people...), so him attending Columbia for his undergrad degree as well makes perfect sense. You're winning me over, anon.

This, exactly. Not to mention, it'd mean that Foggy already knows all those people who also did Columbia undergrad and then stayed there for law school. Maybe he and Marci actually met in undergrad. And, and, Columbia undergrad program is pretty interesting. I see Foggy doing the Human Rights major, because it was international enough to suit his interests, but also theoretical enough to then allow for choosing a variety of different grad schools. But then he kind of got really into it, and it influenced his future decisions a lot.

But it also influenced with worldview, his stance on the 'what is legal v. what is moral' question as well as his much more pragmatic and realistic view of the law (at least when compared to Matt). Experience tells me that the most idealistic and also most disappointed people find themselves in the fields of human rights and international law. Those branches are more make-believe than other by their virtue as an artificial construct of States.

So, dabbling in Human Rights in undergrad would have curbed Foggy's idealism, but would also provide him with the drive to be a lawyer.

Just...think about that. Says the lawyer!anon.

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