My group choose education as our main topic.  We think it is the basic and also the most important thing to college, to Baruch.

I choose to talk about bullying which I think is one thing belongs to education.  In the article “ Effects of Bullying Last Into Adulthood, Study Finds”, Catherine Saint Louis says that although it has been proven that the victims of bullying and bullies are more likely to have mental health problems in childhood, the recent studies have shown that the effects can last into adulthood as well.Through a long observation, the researchers found that the children who experienced bullying had much great chance to develop psychiatric problems in their adulthood, especially for those who were both bullies and victims.

I think bullying is a problem to every school, Baruch also.  Education is a big thing to Baruch, and we hope it will become better.

The topic of our group is Transportation. As we know, New York city is one of the busiest cities in the world. There are a lot of people using public transportation to get to work and school everyday. Also, New York city subway has 7/24 service. So, transportation is a really important part of not only New York but any other place in this world.  From my point of view, it is important to keep track of some transportation news.

I used to live in Newport, near Hudson river. I can see ferries sailing on the river from my window.  I was wondering how can so many different sizes of boats, ferries and ships sail in limited area without accident. Then, I found the article about ferry horns on New York Times website. From the article, I knew that ferries will sound the horn twice before it leaves the dock. However, the sound has disturbed residents who lived in downtown manhattan.

As a college student, there are two major factors that most of the the students concern about the most: academics and money. That’s why we chose the topic about money for the New York Times project- How To Become a Richer Student. Going to college is costly, you not only have to pay for your tuition, but also other expenses such as dorm, meal and commute fee. If students could not manage their money properly, they will get into financial crisis easily. Therefore, we decided to choose the articles about personal finance and saving money as our project’s topic on the purpose to help students make better decisions of spending money and saving money.

Transportation is the topic our group’s New York Times project. We chose the topic of transportation because we realized that the transportation system plays an important role in our every day life, especially for the people who live in New York City. People in New York City travel or commute by train, subway, bus, and taxi a lot comparing to other cities and regions. In the way, we could see that transportation is very significant for us an has big impact on people’s life style. For example, the students from Baruch College are from different boroughs or even outside of New York City to commute to school, the transportation system would be so important to them. If there is something wrong within the transportation, students might be late for their classes or miss the exams.

For the New York Times front page project, our group choose the topic about how to save money for students. Because we are students, it’s not easy to find a good job for us. Although we can find some part time work, it still gets a lot of money because we neither do not have experience nor time. Instead of gaining money, our group find some ways to save money for college students. We choose the articles, which talks about insurance plan and some free activities that we can join after school. In my knowledge, I think saving money is equal to gain money. Even though we know the way to save our money, it is still very hard to do so because this is our first year at Baruch college. We need to spend money in everywhere such as our tuition, books and lunch. Our purpose of the project is to show students that there is many ways to save money and we have to do it for our future.

Our New York Times front page focused on recycling since it is both related to Baruch and the world. Global warming is one of the problematic issues in today’s society. In order to reduce waste and possibility for further pollution on earth, we decided to introduce articles about recycling. We hoped the readers will learn from our front page and start making effort to recycle. After writing about recycling in Baruch, I became more aware of reducing in school.

For our New York Times front page project, we came up with some topics that relate to our daily life at the beginning, like food, sleeping and healthy eating. But once we started looking up articles for the topics, we realize that those were not the right one. Then we started brainstorming all over again. For this time, we started thinking about the topics that are relate to Baruch or college students, because we knew that we need to write an article that’s related to Baruch. One of our group members suggest that we can write some financial tips for everyone, because Baruch is a business school and it’s never too early to learn some financial tips. After the topic was decided, we did research individually and share with each other afterward, and then we chose the articles together and started writing the summaries and the article. I think all the articles we read and the article that Sona wrote was very informative because I did actually learned a lot of financial tips from these articles.

Our group chose transportation for New York Times Project. New York City’s different modes of transportation system are essential to New Yorkers. People travel by automobile, bus, and subway a lot. Since Baruch College is located in Manhattan, many students who live in other borough need to take either by car or subway. The article I chose was about having Wi-Fi and cell phone services on the underground train. I think this article is related to Baruch College student that by having Wi-Fi access, students can have so many things to do instead of staring at others. For instance, students can check their emails, and do some readings. Also, since it’s my first semester at Baruch College, I realized that the subway is so important to me, because I need to take the subway every day to Manhattan. If there’s no transportation systems, then how can people travel and how can  we go to Baruch College?

My group chose education because we are students here at Baruch and education is a big things in our college lives. Since we are students, education is everything for us and we wanted to see the education here at Baruch and other places. As students, we wanted to learn the education that we are receiving or going to receive. The articles I found was about cheating in Harvard and GED. These things can affect us and other people that come to our school. GED is one thing colleges look at when accepting people who did not pass high school. Also cheating is one thing that we learned in class so that’s why I chose these articles. Education is very important for students so that’s why our group chose education.

The reason we chose recycling as our topic for NYT project was that recycling is such a big thing in our society. You can see recycling is important by looking at how many people are trying to recycle their trashes every day, even Baruch is promoting recycling on campus. For example, you see the phrase “clean space” almost every where you go in Baruch, and you certainly see the numerous recycling bins on every floor. Not only in Baruch, recycling is essential around the globe because every country is trying to find a way to reduce their wastes. This topic best expresses my concern in Baruch because Baruch such a “clean” school, and I really like how they are trying to categories different types of trash so we can easily recycle them, so I want to support this movement by writing about it.