In the midst of the first week of classes and the second week of being an editor, I was handed this story, designed to be an 800+ word feature about this professor. When I showed up to the interview, Prof. Sander’s daughter was also there, to my surprise.
After talking to the pair, it turns out that the real story had little to do with the Lamborghini museum and everything to do with the father-daughter relationship these two have. Although I ended up with 64 minutes of audio to sift through, and I missed work due to it, I emerged from this hellish week with one of my best pieces of writing–scratch that, my best story–to date.