The enrichment workshop has been a pleasant experience for me. I enjoyed being a part of a learning community. I’m happy to have met everyone in my blog. It’s been a fun semester. I enjoyed volunteering and exploring The New York Cares organization. I also enjoyed going to the Ruben Museum. I love the Rueben. I think it was a great choice for a field trip. I also enjoyed other activities and this workshop was helpful during my first semester at Baruch.

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Home Away From Home

by Isik Basarir

I always felt as though school was a home away from home. I’m sure a lot of people feel that way. we spend most of our time here. We often spend more time in school then we do at home. We spend more time with our classmates than we do with our family members. I wonder if one day, after I graduate, I will miss school, like missing home. I spend so much time in school and experience so many things, so many emotions that it sticks. For example, I miss middle school. I miss high school. Those were all good times. So much happened. I wonder if college will be like that too. My feeling is that it will. Maybe I’ll miss it more than I miss high school.

Charged With ID Theft in L.I.R.R. Ticketing Swindle

by Isik Basarir

In New York, our security systems are very reliable. We usually feel safe during the day. We don’t worry much about someone stealing our credit card information because we have already taken necessary cautions for it. However, there are still people who can outsmart our security systems.  A group of people who happen to be Romanian immigrants outsmarted the security system of L.I.R.R ticket vending machines. They placed cameras on the vending machine to steal people’s credit card information.  Who could imagine such a thing happening. Fortunately, the NYPD cops were able to capture the thieves and make train stations secure again.

(source: nytimes.com)

Charge Is Dropped in Beating Death a Transgender Woman in Harlem

Today, NYPD is doing a very good job at maintaining the safety of our city. Crime doesn’t happen very often. Most of us leave the house feeling safe. We do not feel threatened. However, that’s not the case for New York’s transgender community. They actually are not as secure as some of us when they go outside. There are some haters out there and they can hurt them. In Harlem, Islan Nettles, 21 was attacked by a group of men when she was walking on the street with friends. She dies a week later due to her injury form the attack. It’s even more unfortunate that she was so young.

What’s even worse is that the police haven’t been able to capture the attackers. There are only some suspects. We don’t know who did this for what purpose. But it surely is upsetting and frustrating to see someone being beaten to death in public. The thought that this can happen to more people is tragic. Hopefully, someone will do something about it. We cannot just tolerate or forget about these kind of things.

I have created this playlist with my all time favorite songs. All of these are songs that I can relate to. There’s a theme in this playlist and that’s rebellion. You might notice that Jewel has the most songs in my playlist, well that’s because she’s my favorite artist! I made a playlist because the songs speak for themselves, I don’t have much more to say.