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Yesterday’s enrichment workshop was nice. The guy stood in front of us to speak his mind and I thought It was pretty cool. I can agree to his statement about how helping others is the best thing to do. How going to do something for someone is probably the best feeling in the world as well. I try to follow his exact footstep as well even though I mostly fail I go to sleep thinking I tried at least. I have been told to try and help others at all times ever since I was born so it’s nothing new to me. Just that I would rather sleep because sometimes I am in a bad mood. Fro was fun.

Through attending the enrichment workshop, I was able to understand the difference that volunteering could make in an individual’s life. The personal and societal benefits of volunteering were both interesting to learn about because I was able to understand the true impact that it had on both physical and emotional health. Personally, I have volunteered often and have felt the same “good feelings”; however I was very saddened to say that it did not motivate me long enough to keep volunteering. The Final statement really made a difference for me because I always believed in being a good person because at the end of the day, I believed that there would be a balance of return for the good I have done. In the same manner, I understood that I would like to volunteer because its not always about getting rather giving. Most of my life, I have always wanted to get things whether materialistic or intrinsic, but I feel as if the seminar helped open my eyes to the inevitable truth that the giving back to whether its family, friends, or even a stranger that really counts more because at the end of the day, you feel very happy knowing you did so. It inspired me to also to continue to try to be a good person even though I am not perfect at it,but I keep pushing forward in life when it seems impossible to do so. Overall, the enrichment workshop really motivated me in a unique way.

By attending the enrichment workshop on values and benefits of service, I learned about unfamiliar benefits to helping others. Not only is volunteering a nice way to help and give back to others, but according to Dr. Stephen Post, providing your service to others is also good for your health! He emphasized love and with other scientists created studies on unlimited love. He is convinced that people who give are much happier than others and also live longer. Studies and surveys show that volunteering helps people feel stronger and healthier. Researchers have actually conducted a study where they interviewed 12 year olds and about 100 of them said they wanted to help humanity. The researchers then went on and followed the kids who said they want to help the world and studies showed they had lower levels of heart disease, diabetes, and asthma. Most of these kids have lived up to their late 90s.  I was surprised that there are real surveys to prove these claims and overall I think the enrichment workshop motivated me to volunteer whenever I can.

-Niloy Asian

The workshop yesterday taught me that being a good citizen and giving would make me live a longer and healthier life. They’re less depressed, stressed, and have less diseases. I rarely do community service, but I think I should start volunteering more if this is the case. It seems that people who volunteer and enjoy doing it live more passionate lives. Dr. Stephen also talks about “unlimited love,” which I think is a very idealistic concept, but a good one nonetheless. He talks about how people should love sick people, people in hospital, the less fortunate, etc. Is it possible to even love strangers? He also brings up the point that forgiveness and self-control leads to happiness, which I agree with, and can personally work on. So from this workshop, I learned that I may not be living life life to the fullest, but I can start doing so by volunteering and making a difference.

For the NY times project, our group decided to do sports. We decided to do sports because sports are something that almost everyone watches. It’s a great way for people to relate with each other and show their pride. We included some of the most popular sports: soccer, basketball, and tennis. And even if you don’t play sorts yourself, it’s very exciting and intense watching the best teams play each other. People from all over the world who don’t even know each other can get along if they share the same passion and devotion to a sports team. This reminds us that we should be open-minded to new things and new people. We sometimes think we might not like something, but if you find one thing positive about that thing or person, you might just hit it off.

Hi, my name is Sangmi Cho.

My group’s topic for this NY Times project was “Foods around Baruch.” Basically, we researched certain food joints around Baruch Campus and found articles/reviews on those places. We chose this topic because it relates to every Baruch student and can assist in their guidance throughout their campus life. From Chinese food to Korean food to middle eastern food to Mexican food- the different kinds of food in our campus are so diverse that reading reviews and recommendations would have helped me quite a lot. Hope this blog can help many students’ daily Baruch Campus lives!

I am Sam Jin and I was in group 3. Our group did our NY Times front page on the many hamburgers of Manhattan. We posted various synopses of different NY Times articles on 5 different burger joints around the city, and split the posts 2 each. We did burgers because burgers are great. They taste good, and can vary so much from place to place. Each restaurant has a different approach to how they cook and present their burgers, from the meat used to the very atmosphere and experience of the restaurant. We showed the different rivalries between some restaurants and put together our NY Times front page: Hamburger Heaven.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teampretty/

My group and I decided to do our New York Times Project on music festivals. We decided to do our blog on music festivals because it is an event where we all can have fun and relax.  We did our articles on Tomorrow world, Lebanese music festivals, daisy carnival, edm, and the concert that was held at Baruch with the artist, Jojo. There have been a lot of news worthy things in these music festivals. Most of these articles reflect our first semester at Baruch because most of these music festivals are good ways for just to relax and remove our self from the outside world. My individual role for this project was to organize the group as leader, find to the bearcat article, and create the blog.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teamone/

Our group chose to do our N.Y Times project on the topic of sports.  We all love to play or watch sports. Sports, in general, is really fun and entertaining.  Personally, I like to play basketball, football, and baseball. There are a variety of sports to play, so you can never get bored. That’s the reason why our group picked this topic, even though we first wanted to do the project on economy. Our group believed that  news on sports is important and interesting at the same time. Getting updates about what is going on in each sport is really vital and that is what our group chose to do for the project. In Baruch, everyone has athletic talent and the sports teams are really competitive. In one of our N.Y. Times articles, we talked about how the women’s soccer team is undefeated. Thus, we can all enjoy, relax, and have a great time whenever we play or watch sports.

-Mohammed Hassan

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teamone/

Hi! This is Vincent Wang, and I’m in group 1. My group decided to change the theme from economy to sports because sports is a lot more entertaining. Everyone has their own favorite sport whether it be tennis, or basketball or soccer. We decided to used those sports because they relatively the newest information on sports in NYT and we know they are very popular. Also, the basketball tryouts just took place like two days ago. Also, in the bearcat post we talked about how Baruch is undefeated in soccer. Baruch has a lot of students with a lot of athletic talent. Everyone loves sports.