“Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Towards Rhetorical Analysis” by Laura Bollin Carroll explains the necessity of using rhetoric in everyday life. Understanding rhetoric is a principle part of being a well-informed consumer as we are not simply being brainwashed by the media. Taking the time to analyze situations, whether it be why or how the matter relates to you and its importance, provides us the ability to not give in to the persuasion of these creators without purpose. Laura Carroll also addresses how we as humans make rhetorical analysis so routinely, that it has become habitual. Just like the example Laura Carroll continuously refers back to in this article with the meeting a new teacher for the first time, I had been in a similar situation with one of my current Professors. The first day of the semester I walked into the class and seen this small, curly haired,  white women, dressed in trousers and a blouse with a special choice of accessories. She was walking around all jolly and vibrant and enthusiastic it looked fake. Automatically from everything i analyzed about her within the first three minutes of the class, I came to the conclusion that she was this, stuck up, arrogant, self absorbed white women who got away with being the way she is because she was privileged. In the first half of the semester she proved my judgments to be accurate, she would talk about how great she is and how smart and funny she is, she literally called herself a narcissist, it scared me. However, later on in the semester she had left me a note on one of my papers asking me to see her after class. I was livid. I thought she was going to try to violate my paper, but after class we spoke for the first time, and she was so sweet and down to earth, praising my writing and how much potential she sees in my future  asking me questions about my future, she was so eager to speak to me and help me and offered me to speak to her whenever I needed anything that she would always be available during her office hours. I felt horrible after speaking to her, all my judgments made me paint this picture of a monster she was nothing like. That taught me to never judge a book by its cover. If I haven’t had the chance to speak to her personally I would have always have this horrible perception of who she really is. Therefore, we must not always use the judgments we made off of rhetorical analysis as solely our understandings of things.