A Letter to Myself

Dear Seventeen Year Old Emily,

                I am going to tell you something that you might not believe at first but trust me you should take my advice. Getting bangs was one mistake you will definitely regret, especially getting bangs right before senior year. Bangs will be in and everyone will be getting theirs cut, but do not follow along and give in and also get yours cut. They are a pain to style because your hair is so unnatural. You know your hair grows extremely slow and they will take forever to grow back out. Once they start growing out they will just be an annoyance hanging in your face. You will always have to bobby pin your hair back which is annoying to do every day. Bangs are cute when they are short but once they hit that awkward stage you will not know what to do with them. Most of the other girl’s hair will be growing much faster, but yours will still be not long enough to keep out of your face without the use of bobby pins.

                Instead of rushing in and getting your bangs cut when all the other girls were getting theirs cut you should think about the pros and cons of the situation. A pro would be that it is in style. They also look super cute for a few weeks. But on the other hand you know how extremely slow your hair grows and it will take forever to be able to wear your hair without using bobby pins. Also if you wanted to keep bangs for a while you would have to go get them trimmed every couple weeks because they would grow to an awkward length. Because trust me it will take over a whole year before those bangs will not be an annoyance to you anymore. After a week of having short bangs the desire to have them wears off and you will wish you had not gotten them cut.  And P.S. for graduation when you curl your hair you will have to bobby pin them back so you can put your cap on without your hair hanging in your face.

                Instead of getting bangs just get your hair cut. Your hair will need it from all the split ends of blow drying, curling, and straightening your hair. Getting bangs also would only make getting ready in the morning longer because you would have to straighten them since your hair is not straight in the least bit. You will need that extra sleep in the morning and not want to spend it on doing your hair any longer than what you normally do. Take my advice and do not get your bangs cut short you will definitely regret that decision.

Sincerely Your Eighteen Year Old Self,

Emily Augustyniak

Redesign Reflection

Going into the assignment I thought it would be somewhat easy on coming up with an advertisement to write about. On the other hand I thought it would be difficult to meet the length requirement at first. I knew it would take a great amount of time to work on the assignment but I knew I would be able to do it.

                I just looked though the different ads in different magazines to find advertisements. I had different criteria in my mind that I was looking for in a specific advertisement. When I saw the Kellogg’s advertisement I realized that would be a great advertisement to use. I thought about the different ways I could redesigned it and it seemed to work perfectly.

                When I thought of the redesign I just pictured what it would look like in my head. I thought of what other cereal advertisements looked like and used ideas from that. Since I was redesigning it for the audience to be children it needed to be lively.

                The challenges I faced were meeting the length requirement. I was a page short and was unsure of what to add without repeating myself. I went to the Writing Center to get help with my paper and also asked what I could add to my paper and I was given great suggestions.

                I liked that we were able to pick our own advertisement. Each ones’ advertisement was different so there was not the need to worry that you would be writing the same thing as another student. I was able to pick an advertisement I thought I would be able to easily redesign.

                By doing this redesign I was able to see all the thought process that actually is invested in creating those advertisements. It is not as easy as one would assume it to be. I understand why advertisers can earn so much money is because they have to meet so many needs when coming up with the advertisement.

                The only thing I would do differently if I had the chance to redo the assignment would be to go to the Writing Center sooner. If I would have gone sooner I could have possibly gone back if I had any more questions later on in the paper. There is nothing else that I would have done different though.