A boring title for a post that is hopefully more entertaining.

Here's just one more blog to add to my very long repertoire of blog making and deleting. I used to make them quite often in middle school and high school, but I left that phase of my life behind long before college started. I am far too busy to keep an up-to-date blog now (though I guess I'll be changing that for this class), and honestly... who actually reads those things besides internet creepers anyway? So... thanks for being my new internet creepers.

My name is Ashley Coolman. I am a second year, Michigan-born (sorry), tentative Linguistics major with a definite Chinese minor, and a sister of Kappa Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc. If it makes you feel any better, I was raised in Sylvania, Ohio, so you don't have to boo at me when I walk through the door. I enjoy reading books, texting, the color green, smiley faces (which I will try to avoid using for the sake of your sanity), diet coke, punctuation, penguins, my teddy bear, and keeping the hours of a vampire. I have 4 pets - a dog named Sadie, a brother named Aaron, a fish named Ji (which means "Chicken" in Mandarin Chinese), a rabbit named Pollo ("Chicken" in Spanish), and my family had a 5th pet, a kitten named Poule (you-know-what in French), but we had to give him away.

If I'm going to be honest with you, which I have just now decided I will be, I am in my sorority by complete and total accident and/or happy intervention by the Fates. My friend had originally planned on doing formal rush with the PHA sororities, and then, being Asian herself, decided to go to a few of the informal rush events with the Asian-Interest MCGC sororities. She dragged me to a few rush events with her for Kappa Phi Lambda, and then I really took a liking to the sisters that I met. Long story made very short for the sake of time, we both ended up joining and even though I originally had no intention of going down the Greek path, I really don't regret it a bit. Thanks, friend. Now I am Webmistress for KPL (see what I waste all my time on: http://osu.kappaphilambda.org), and I was formerly MCGC Delegate, but since I have been elected as VP for MCGC, I now only hold one position. I really love everything that I have been able to get involved in since joining, all the people I have met, and all the opportunities I know it will provide me with in the future. It's been a great experience so far, and I know it will continue to be for the next two and a half years.

Since I have finished reading our class Syllabus/Blogbus, I really must admit that I'm not entirely convinced. I think it would be a great thing to be able to change the world and complete our goals in a fulfilling way, but I am a cynical realist and I feel like it is too much to hope for. Youtube doesn't work on my computer right now because I have some sort of vengeful virus that slows everything down, so maybe my lack of visual entertainment is only serving to add to my doubting attitude - but as much as I would love all of our wildest dreams to come true, I can't help but take everything with a grain of salt. I think the class will be fun, the course load doesn't seem too demanding, and it will be great to get to know the other councils since I really know few people outside of MCGC, but changing the world seems to be a far-reaching goal for such a small group. Maybe this class will convince me that anything is possible, but for now, I remain stubbornly negative.

That's not to say I don't think this course will be something I enjoy. I do think it can help us within our own councils at our own school. Perhaps it will teach us to be true leaders and take control of our situations. I know that we DO have the power to change things now, and I look forward to doing so with the help of this class. We can take our potential to greater heights, and maybe this class will enjoy some interesting discussion and conversation between the larger and smaller councils. Surely we can all walk away with something new to think about, as we consider the pros and cons of the other councils and how we can use those realizations to better ourselves and the Greek community as a whole. I look forward to finding out.