Though shorter than the other workshops and less vibrant, my favorite workshop was  News Literacy. There was no performance, no bright lights, no paintings, no sculptures. But there was bountiful information that could be used to help me during my time at Baruch. Though I missed the latest performance of Voices, the one I saw at the beginning of the semester was very inspiring and entertaining, a testament to the multitude of feelings that arise from starting a new phase in your life. The paintings and sculptures at the Rubin Museum were intricate and telling of the beauty of a past rich in history. Both Voices and the Rubin Museum were good experiences but I don’t believe that they were as beneficial to my academic life as the News Literacy workshop was. Starting college at a time in which technology has never been so fast-paced or easily accessible, always at our fingertips, it’s good to know how to weed out what isn’t going to be useful to us, to know what makes a source credible. This information can be used to write papers, a requirement for most classes here. When attending a school like Baruch that has such a strict policy against plagiarism, it’s very useful to know how to prevent it, especially when it’s done unintentionally. The BBC video about the spaghetti trees reminded me how easy it can be to believe false information when you’re not fully informed of its source. So while it wasn’t the most exciting of our workshops, News Literacy took the top spot for me.