This particular college magazine is designed to target students attending the 'Beloit' college. Most conventional magazines display a barcode, price, and the date of release upon the cover, however this magazine simply states the date, 'summer 2009'. As this magazine is specific to the 'Beloit' college, it is probably free to the students. The Masthead is situated at the very top of the magazine, making it recognisable whilst using a conventional way to ensure it stands out. The text in which the title has been written is also clear, and of the largest font size upon the whole of the cover. Though the title stands out above many of this magazines conventions, it is seemingly the main image that is used to represent the magazine as a whole. The image used is clearly of a student, who appears to be graduating; hence her graduation cap and robe. The stereotype that all “intelligent” people wear glasses has possibly been used, maybe to suggest that the smile upon her face is due to the fact that she has successfully passed her exams with good grades, and is leaving college proud of all that she has achieved. This therefore creates a positive attitude on doing well within education for all students reading this particular magazine. The image is in medium close-up view, with all background images blurred, which ensures that the female within the image is the main focus point. Though this magazine is targeted towards students of both genders, which is clear from the use of a student upon the cover and no overall content to suggest that it is gender specific, it is possibly somewhat more aimed at a female audience. This is due to the student being female, and the overall layout of the magazine resembling a female magazine, like that of ‘Heat’.

The main cover line is in obvious relation to the main image. The ‘kicker’, written in bold font similar to the font used in the masthead, though not as large, states ‘Going Out in Style’, which refers to all students graduating from college. Underneath, there is then the explanatory line ‘commencement reminds us why even the hard years are good ones’: this once again creates a positive attitude towards education, inferring that if hard work is put in at the start, the feeling of having achieved your best on the day of graduation will make everything seem worthwhile, which clearly the female in the image has found. Various other cover lines have been distributed towards the left of the image, in a different colour to the masthead and main coverline, each of which state other areas of the content dissimilar to the idea of graduation, but all of which relate to college life.