For our New York Times Project, our group decided on the topic of bagels. Although this theme may seem strange and unrelated to life at Baruch, bagels actually play a big role. We all agreed that food plays a large role in who we are and how we bond with new people; the discussion of food is one of the reasons of how we all became friends in fact. We felt that bagels, and food in general, bring a sense of comfort and home which are both relieving emotions when entering a college or university as a freshman. Not only are bagels a delicious food commodity, they are also great to read and write about. When searching in the New York Times, there were surprisingly more articles than we had imagined; articles regarding price, anatomy, bagel vs. donut and soon on. Bagels proved to provide friendship, happiness and a cheap cost which are ideal qualities for college students.