I majored in political science my first year of college, hoping one day to go to law school.
While my goals and my major later changed, my passion for involvement politically did not. As a skinny 19-year-old playing poker one night with a group of students from the department, I was impressed by the mixture of races represented at the table. Unfortunately, I was the only female -- women still weren't that common in law studies.
I asked about the latest primary and who had voted for whom.
"You voted in the primary?" was the reply. "You must be real