I chose to write about stress, because let’s face it, stress is a part of our everyday lives, no matter how much you want to get away from it, it always is in the back of your mind, lurking, waiting to strike at the most opportune moment when you are most lax. This topic fits well within the walls of Baruch due to the fact that most of the student population is stressed on a daily basis; impending due dates, overloads of work, taxing hours, the list goes on and on for what a college student has to deal with. Not enough people understand how to deal with it and manage it to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Starbucks is a place that’s known for their delicious coffee.  This hold especially true in Baruch, and that’s why we thought of doing our project on this.  The person in my group that came up with this idea was Katerina.  The topic of Starbucks gave the members a lot to write about.  It wasn’t boring to research and was a joy to learn more about this company.  This topic reflects my first year at Baruch because I’ve spent a ton of money on Starbucks coffee this semester alone.  There are Starbucks coffee available everywhere and because of this, Starbucks was the perfect topic for our project.

We decided on culture because it is such a dominate feature in all of our lives. We all came from different ones representing the diversity in all of Baruch. This cultural diversity is very important to the Baruch environment and student society. It exposes us to cultural from all over the world and aids in cultural unity. We all accept the different cultures and intertwine together. This is something that everyone, not just Baruch students, should practice. When we graduate and become business leaders we can take this acceptance with us and make America, maybe even the world, a more culturally diverse and accepting place.

For our New York Times project, we chose to focus on various types of cultures. Everyone in our group is from a different cultural background, so choosing who wrote about what culture was very easy to do. I’ve noticed since coming to the city that Italian culture is extremely common everywhere you go. Being half Italian and half Irish, I thought speaking about Irish culture would be more interesting for everyone else and for myself because it isn’t commonly spoken about. I found an article speaking about an Irish culture museum, so I thought that would be perfect for this topic. The purpose of the museum opening was to bring light to Irish culture which sometimes seems to be forgotten, which is exactly what my goal was in discussing Irish culture.

Our group chose the topic of culture because upon our initial experiences at Baruch, we found that there were an abundance of people who were from various countries and places in the world. This makes for a greater community filled with various cultures and experiences that allow for an expansion of learning amongst each other. Given the fact that we valued culture so much, we felt it would only be right to shed light on the five different cultures that we represented in our group. That is why we chose to find the different New York Times articles that talked about Jamaican, Moroccan, Colombian, Italian, and Irish cultures. Culture was less of a concern to us as it was a great characteristic of the school and because of that, we decided to focus on it not only on the macro level of the school, but also the micro level amongst our own group.

New York City is full people, and people have places they need to go. What better way to get around than the subway? It’s cheap, fast, and trains come every few minutes. Obviously the subway system is an important part  of many citizens’ daily schedules. For Baruch students living at 1760, the 6 train downtown is the ideal method of getting to school. Well for me at least. Riding the subway so often without any better alternatives made me choose this topic to learn about the system I rely on.