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My name is Kyle Patrick Ranally, and I'm a junior in Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Although my major is journalism, my main focus is advertising. I also have a minor in psychology. I chose advertising as my major because I see it as a combination of journalism and psychology, my two favorite subjects. When I graduate, I hope to move to Chicago to work either in an ad agency or at a music label working in band marketing, promotions or publicity.

I am from Willoughby, Ohio, an eastern suburb of Cleveland. As a Cleveland suburbanite, I am obligated to associate myself with the immensely depressing franchises known as Cleveland professional sports. I am a huge Indians, Cavs and Browns fan. However my love of these teams is constantly tested due to their pathetic seasonal play. This love/hate relationship has caused my to develop an affinity for underdogs- and in some cases losers.

Along with sports, music is a huge passion of mine. I have played drums since I was 11-years-old. Throughout high school I played in an assortment of garage rock bands and continue to play occasionally with friends.

I enjoyed my experience in English 151. I enjoyed having the freedom to write about topics that interested me. It made me a lot better at writing introductions and also recording in-text citations. I didn't enjoy most of the reading assignments. Many of our assignments involved basic writing principles that were pretty boring. The novel we were required to read was terrible as well.

This course seems to offer a lot of variety compared to previous composition classes. It seems more analytical in looking at language and communication. I think the Wikipedia archive and the discourse assignments sound really interesting.

I am excited for some of the assignments, like the two that I mentioned earlier. In 308J, I want to improve my writing and communications skills and be better at analyzing language that is both written and non-written. Since some of the assignments are unlike most other assignments in composition classes, I am slightly worried, but I think I'll be able to figure them out.