When I was a sophomore in high school, I decided I would join the speech and debate team and it was one of the best decisions I ever made in school.

Not only did I make a lot of friends and travel all over Wyoming, but I also had an amazing job and achieved a lot of both team and personnel success including being the first sophomore in the history of the program to qualify for nationals where I actually did pretty decent.

It was during this time that I took a keen interest in political science and this was something that I really thought about majoring in when I graduated. In fact, it wa...