Hello!

Hello! My name is Chelsea Hardy and I am 19 years old and I am from Aurora, Colorado. I am a business management major with minors in history, political science, and legal studies. I have one horse named Sunny. I went to Smoky Hill High School in Aurora, and decided to stay in state for college. I like to snowboard, horseback ride and read. What drew me to a Gender and Women's Studies course is that I can earn 2 credits for a course that I am interested in. I am sure that everyone knows that we pay the same for 12 credits and 18 credits so I always take 18 credits a quarter. I am excited because I finally found a 2-credit course that I am interested in. I have been intereste in gender and politics for a long time now. I would like to go to law school after law school and quite frankly, I know what I am up against. I still get comments on campus and outside of campus that state that I should not go to law school because I am a woman. I hope in this course, I do get a better sense about why gender and power are connected. I do have to dmit that I love politics. I can remember writing to Governor Owens and protesting the CSAPS at 12. I really got interested in politics when I started working in high school and saw where my taxes were going. I then started paying more attention to the tax platforms that candidates have. This campaign is very interesting because this is the first time that I can vote. I watched the elections in 2000 and 2004, but I feel more connected to the 2008 election because I feel like I can actually change something in Washington this year. I think pretty much everything in life classifies as politics. Applying to college has some political things going on. Getting a job is involved with politics. I hope to learn more about the bond between women and power, and why it is so intimidating to people in America. I also hope to learn a little bit more about you guys and get some more perspectives on issues that I care about. See you Wednesday. 

Cheers,

Chelsea