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I hate change.  This may make me sound like an old person, but it’s true, I hate when things don’t go as usual, according to plan.  I did not intend on attending Baruch, but decided “What the hell” and chose to go here.  Coming from a rather small high school, Staten Island Tech, I was used to a cozy and friendly environment with faces and places I knew and was familiar with.  Being from Staten Island, in general isolated me from the rest of New York City, because of the suburban, relatively slow and quiet neighborhood I live in.  The closest thing I had to a New York City experience was the occasional outing to Manhattan and seeing my dad come home from work exhausted and rambling about his day in The City.  Baruch was a completely new experience for me.  It has so far opened up many new doors in a place I thought I’d never call home.  I went from dreading the long commute from The Island to The City, but now I’m gracious for the weekend to end so I can go to Manhattan again (at least on Wednesdays and Fridays).  Interacting with numerous clubs, especially IVCF (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) has helped me find a place at Baruch with familiar faces, something I yearned for since leaving high school.  I hope to further find my place at Baruch in the years to come and become complacent and adapted to city life, as I may very well be spending the rest of my life in this great city.

When we were told about the workshop initially, I felt it was going to be another “helpful” program which would aid my college career that I was begrudgingly forced to attend.  As it turns out, the workshop itself was actually not that bad, beneficial, actually.  I have never been much of a leader, due to not really being into any organizational sports, groups, or clubs very often.  I usually go off on my own or find companions who share in my mentality instead of conforming into a group and following instructions and orders.  This workshop has shown me that being part of an organization is not always this way.  To be an effective leader, one must know what it’s like to be an underling.  A leader must command with experience, integrity, and perseverance.  A leader must inspire hope and pave the way for future generations.  By doing such, a leader ensures that he/she and their followers have the best experience and the greatest accomplishments.  This is what I took away from the workshop and hope that it comes in handy in my academic, work-related, and social careers.

1. What was the “theme” your group selected for your front page, and how did you select it? How did the articles you selected fit within that theme?

The theme our group chose was Medicine, specifically, Advancements of Innovations Among Vaccinations.

All our articles centered around health and vaccinations, as well as solutions to medical problems.

2. What was your individual role in the group process working on the NYT project?

I wrote the Bearcat post, the one concerning Baruch itself.  It was interesting to see what Baruch sources, such as The Ticker count on as significant news dealing with medicine.

3. How has your experience within this project influenced your understanding of “news literacy”?Provide a link to your NYT Front Page Project.

I am a pretty avid reader of news and try to keep myself knowledgeable about global news as much as possible and this experience only encouraged this.

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

Hey, I’m Sam and here’s some things I like

It’s Always Sunny in Philedelphia

Photography

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Pink Floyd

Skateboarding

Traveling

Wuthering Heights

Pizza