Picking my topic was the most challenging aspect of this assignment. Throughout my entire college career, I had yet to write a paper I would even remotely like to revisit in the future. For the very few that I though I could stand to think about again - I'm looking at you, English 225 - the topics seemed impossibly obscure to repurpose. I finally went with something that had a good mix - I found the topic I wrote the paper on pretty fascinating, and though it seemed quite difficult to write political psychology to interest a layperson, there were definitely some tougher options. I decided I wanted to use my interest in advocacy and bipartisanship, as I am the Communications Director of a bipartisan political advocacy group on campus called Common Sense Action, to write an op-ed about the importance of leaving politics and negative political stereotypes out of conversations and relationships they ought not to be in, at the risk of undermining such relationships.