Mike O’Mary ’99-’00 worked as a traveling aide to Dean over the past few months, criss-crossing the country with the candidate.

“The job I had was incredibly exhausting,” O’Mary said.

He’s now looking forward to a short break before he begins at Boston College Law School in the fall.

O’Mary was accepted to the law school last year, but deferred to continue his work with the Dean campaign. Garrett M. Graff ’03, a former Crimson executive, has been a deputy press secretary for the Dean campaign since June.

“The last couple of weeks have not been easy,” Graff said. “We have all invested a lot in this campaign.”

As of yesterday, Graff was one of the remaining staff members still manning the phones at the Dean campaign’s national headquarters in Burlington, N.H.

“I’ll probably be here for another couple of days,” Graff said. “As you can imagine there’s a huge physical infrastructure that needs to be shut down from what has amounted to a $50-million-a-year business.”

Pundits have wondered whether Dean supporters will transfer their efforts to another candidate for the remainder of the Democratic primary.

But so far they just seem to be licking their wounds.

“People who had supported Dean are very undecided about who they’ll work for next,” said Regina C. Schwartz ’06, co-chair of Harvard Students for Dean.

For Graff, the future is “unclear.”

Though the campaign was ultimately unsuccessful, none of the workers interviewed found their time a waste.

“Absolutely worth it, I learned more than I ever had,” Simon said.

Some have even managed to have a little fun.

“The governor was here for most of the day,” Graff said yesterday. “We went out back and had a snowball fight with him.”

—Staff writer Michael M. Grynbaum can be reached at grynbaum@fas.harvard.edu.