If you would have asked me last summer what I was going to be minoring in, I would have probably told you graphic design or journalism or I might have just said I was majoring in English without a minor. It was at this time that I really started getting involved in the upcoming Presidential election. I didn't know who to vote for, but I did all my research online and figured out my candidate. Our views matched up ninety-eight percent, with all the other candidates trailing behind by a large amount. I was taking an introductory political science class online but, I wasn't intrigued to any life changing extent. I just needed a few more credits to remain on track. But, as the presidential race got rolling, my idea of politics changed completely.

I had always been aware of politics, but I had never been involved. My closest relation to anything political was that one of the state senators goes to the same church as me on Easter Sunday. I never in a million years thought that I would care so much about politics. But, then along came Bernie and his campaign.

I know what you're thinking now. Oh no, another idealistic socialist-loving millennial.

I'm not going to say that I am voting for Bernie, or preach about his ideas. The point is, he called his movement from the beginning, a political revolution. I liked the idea of politics being remade into something better. Maybe I'm painfully optimistic but I think that America can do a whole lot more for everyone, especially the working class. We just need someone to represent what we believe in. Yet Bernie was only a part of why I decided to minor in political science. As much as I hate to admit it, it's more likely his opponents that really gave me the push. That, and my current political science class.

On the first day of my second political science class, I felt like a fish out of water. Something about the room felt like when you go to a party and everyone knows each other but you. At this time, Trump had already joined the race and it was becoming less of a joke and more of a concern for the majority. Hillary also had a scandal or two going on. Everyone in class had their own opinions about the candidates, and my professor made sure we were respectful of everyone's opinions. I know not every political science class is that centered on the election, or even American politics at all, but it just spoke to me that we could all bring these varying opinions and still get along. As for me, I'm little, I'm blonde and I wear pink lipstick on the regular. Every day in class feels a little bit like my personal Elle Woods experience.

Am I saying Reese Witherspoon's Legally Blonde character is the reason I'm pursuing political science? No. I am saying though that I've seen the flaw in the political circuit through research of each candidate in the running. I don't feel the need to fight and whine about it, though I was admittedly distraught by Bernie Sanders losses in states even after Hillary talked down to Blacks Lives Matter activist Ashley Williams, had an FBI investigation filed against her and sent her husband who is a former president to illegally campaign for her at a Massachusetts polling center. Maybe I'm even more upset about the fact that Donald Trump is on his way to being our next president, and we're all one step away from starring in the next installment of the Hunger Games franchise. But, this doesn't discourage me. This empowers me, to know that there is so much we need to do to get the political system back on track. To know that learning all of the reasons behind what drives people to vote for who they do.

So yes, I will keep wearing my pink lipstick to class and trying to study the ways we choose who we want to be our leaders, because I might look like the ideal political science student but I sure am willing to work towards it.