Why I chose Wright State

     Going into my senior year I had no idea where I wanted to go to school. I knew that I wanted to go far away from home, but not to far. That way if I needed something I was still a reasonable distance away. After going on college visits with one of my best friends Marlee, we stumbled into Wright State. We both had heard about it before and had a general idea where it was but had never saw it. After visiting the University of Dayton we decided to go ahead and stop by and check the campus out. I really liked the size of the campus and I thought the student union was pretty cool. It was no comparison to UD, but it was defiantly better than Xavier. Wright State had all the qualities that I was looking for. Xavier was to small, and UD was to big, but Wright State to me was the perfect size. The buildings were a little more spread out unlike Xavier and weren't to far apart like The University of Dayton's buildings. Not to mention my best friend would only be about 15 minutes away. Marlee chose UD and I chose Wright State!

Alyssa Lies

     The song that I have chosen that has a significant meaning to me is "Alyssa Lies" by Jason Michael Carrol. Carrol is a country artist that sang a song about child abuse. His purpose for this song was to make people more aware of child abuse. Child abuse is over looked by many people everyday. Most of the time victims are to afraid to speak up because of the consequences that might arise. Normally, the ones that can help are to afraid to ask if anything is going on in the victims life; or to afraid that they might embarrass the victim, or maybe feel stupid if nothing is really going on. Unfortunately, that is where we all go wrong! People need to be more aware that child abuse does happen, while still keeping in mind that accidents do happen as well. Also, people need to realize the what ifs a little more.
     When I say that accidents do happen, I mean, that people don't need to be over worried and think if someone that they know has a bruise that they are being abused. Someone needs to take action, when a student starts coming to school with a black eye on more than one occasion, or wears the same outfit and does not bath everyday; just stuff like that. As for the what ifs; how would you feel if someone you thought might have been being abused really was and you did nothing about it. Or what if someone you knew died because of abuse and you knew it was happening?
     I really believe people don't take that first step, because they are afraid of embarrassing them. But did anyone ever stop to think that maybe them not talking, and always wearing the same holy clothes everyday, is their cry for help? Probably not, because those kids are always dismissed by being "dirty" or "skanky" or just the "weird kid". I bet nobody ever stoped to think about their home life. Did they?
     It just makes me mad, because little kids die all the time, because somebody took their life. It's just not right. To be completely honest after watching this video for the very first time I seriously considered changing my major to social work, just so I would be able to help those people that can't help themselves. I just get so upset when I think about the little girl in the video. Everyone thought that Alyssa was being abused but never really knew because she didn't say anything; and when somebody finally decided to step up to the plate it was too late!
Below is the link to the video Alyssa Lies by Jason Michael Carrol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q4zldF_AS4

About Me

     For this first blog I was a little unsure on what to write about. After thinking for a while I decided to introduce myself through blogging. My name is Ashley Schott and I am from Cambridge, Ohio. Cambridge is a little town in Southeastern, Ohio about half an hour from Wheeling, West Virgina. I love sports! In high school I played volleyball, which I have three school records in, and I also played basketball. In addition to those sports I also really enjoy fishing and hunting. This year will be the first year that I will get to go bow hunting so I am really excited. When I came to Wright State last year I was recruited to play on the Wright State Women's Rugby team by another player. I also played Club volleyball here as well, until I got hurt in rugby and could not play volleyball anymore.

     As far as academics go, my favorite subjects are math and science. I am absolutely horrible at English, and that is why I put this class off until my second year of school. In high school I was all about the sports I was in and my friends. I did not really care about school. This is really weird because now, I really care about school, and that is why I am not playing rugby this season. I just want to focus on my school work.

     Every Friday I head to Celina to watch the Bulldogs play football. I did graduate from Cambridge High School, but my boyfriend is from Celina, Ohio and this is his brothers' senior year. Although I would rather go home to see the Bobcats play, I still very much enjoy watching Celina play. They have not been a very good team for the last few years, but this year they all have so much heart, you can tell it is going to be different. So far they are 2-1, and will be taking on their biggest rival of the WBL (western buckeye league) this Friday in St. Marys,Ohio. I really hope they win becasue they have not beat St. Marys for the last five years or something crazy like that.