Why I Came to WSU

Wright State was never a choice when I was looking at school. I never even applied to Wright State. My First choice was to go to a school where I could play basketball and that wasn't close to where I live. After season my high school coach and my dad got into an argument. After that every scholarship off I had went away and I haven’t talked to my coach since that day. I ended up at a small school just outside Columbus. I visited three times before I decided to go there. Once I got on campus it was cool. I was meeting new people but it was boring up there so I was home every weekend. So halfway through my first quarter I decided to give up basketball and wanted to come back home. Since every weekend I had came home before I was at Wright state I chose to transfer there. I knew a lot of people that went there because I’m from the area and know a lot people around here. I wanted to come back home but didn’t want to live there. So winter quarter when I first transferred to Wright State I stayed in college park. I wanted my own room and since I was a transfer student I was eligible to stay there rather than in the dorms with the other freshman. Now that I have been here for a year now I like it way more than the school I was at before and plan on staying here.     

Distracted Drivers

 Multi-tasking while driving causes drivers to be inattentive or distracted. Using cell phones either by talking on them or texting is one of the most distractive things you can do while driving. I am writing about this because I just experienced it. I was driving on a back road my phone went off I looked down at it and looked back up and the car in front of me was stopped. I had to slam on the brakes and drive off into the grass. It was probably the most scared I’ve ever been in my life. The top five distraction while driving are changing the radio, exceeding the speed limit, driving without both hands on the wheel, talking in the phone and  the last one is eating. I have done all five of these this week if not just today. Every year 5,000 teens between the ages of 16 and 20 die in car accidents. In 2006 there were 4,842 teen drivers that were killed. Of those 4,842 25 percent of those teens between 16 and 20 had a blood alcohol level over the legal limit of .08. After reading all these statistics and after what happened to me today I think I’m going to try to cut back on the multi-tasking and pay attention more while driving so that I don’t become a statistic.