Arrangement.

This was the word I was given for my newsletter. Simple enough, some of my friends in class received words what I was definitely not envious of. I began my newsletter with the design. I knew right away garnet and gold would appeal to all freshman students on campus. After I was done designing…. I just let it sit on my computer for a few days. How can I elaborate on a word that is so obvious? Obviously everything we write must be arranged in a order that makes sense. I made the titles of the sections I wanted to touch on…. and then let my newsletter it on my background again…. for days.

I rand over to Starbucks and got the best drink in the universe, a pumpkin spice latte. I had fueled myself up and now I was ready to create my newsletter. It flowed pretty nicely. Research went very well, digging for information was not the usual drag. Great! Right? I then realized I had too much to say on the intended amount of space I allotted for my newsletter. Time to add another page…front and back. My next challenge was to have enough information to fill that space.

An entire page was blank. I said all I wanted to. The opening and conclusion pages were finished, so why couldn’t I just fill in the other half of the middle. I began thinking about theories of arrangement and how they were in confusing Latin words. I always think of little games to remember arrangement, so I just began writing now my analogy down. I have always thought of arrangement as a courtroom, and I’m the attorney. The page came out nicely and became one of my favorites. I always like to use a analogy when thinking of concepts, analogies have been a big part of my learning experience all through school, so I was glad I was able to incorporate that into my newsletter. Soon enough, my newsletter was complete, but my struggles were not over yet…I came to know yesterday, that Target Copy sucks.

To make a long story short, 40 minutes of waiting, an embarrassing outburstof frustration, and 8 dollars and 78 cents later- my project was finally complete. In the end, there were not to many bumps in the road. A little bonus in the end of completing my project was last night a friend came to my room unsure about how to structure her paper. She is always able to start them and end them, but confused as to what went in the middle. Quickly, I forwarded her my newsletter, as she used it to complete her paper. I was glad to see that a project I completed went to an actual use to help someone out with his or her writing process. I even learned a lot myself while completing this assignment, and I feel as though I will pull my newsletter up from time to time as a reference for whatever I may write in the future.

Katie Mancini