Our group theme was “American Achievements”. We chose to use this as our theme for the New York Times front page to highlight the positive aspects of America in the midst of various hardships. Furthermore, we are all attempting to achieve a huge accomplishment, and doing this theme shows what we must strive for. Baruch College will be a stepping stone in helping us accomplish this goal, and we realized the importance our college careers will be onward for our lives.

The first article I chose to use was about the Curiosity Rover. I selected this because the space race America was undergoing finally showed signs of a lead for America. With America’s successful launch of the Curiosity Rover drone, they are now able to collect minerals and specimens from the planet Mars, which has never been done before. This relates back to me because it showed how technologically innovative America could be. It provides knowledge to me knowing that the country provides resources such that anyone could do anything if they aspired to.

The second article I chose was the Bearcat article about the opening of the East 25th Plaza last December. This was clearly important because of how convenient and helpful this release was to me, and many other Baruch students. I cannot imagine how the other students must have felt before the opening of the plaza. The library would be much more dangerous to go to, and many students would have no where to go to hang out. Being a freshman, I was unaware of these hardships, and am glad I am not going to.