For my New York Times Project, our group chose education as the topic because the project had to be related to CUNY Baruch College. Our group was trying to do a different topic on New York Times Project, however the project was supposed to be about Baruch. Here in Baruch College, education is really getting more important each year. Each year, there are more students applying to Baruch College because the amount of money that has to be paid is cheap. Another reason students apply to Baruch College more often is that education here is getting stronger and students who could have gotten to better college is choosing Baruch. As a result, statistically and academic wise, Baruch College is getting more competitive than ever and is proven at www.collegeboard.org. This is why my group decided to choose education as the topic since there were many information and facts we could put in the New York Times Project about Baruch College.

Saving money is important in our daily lives and not just to college students, but to everyone in the world. However, saving money in college is extremely important because we are now adults, and college students, and we are investing immense amount of money into our education and everything that comes with it (i.e. tuition, dorm, food…). Since this is our first semester, managing money might be a little difficult. Since we are located in the city, we are tempted to spend more money and so going out to dinner and lunch with friends will lead to us spending more money. Which is totally great but sometimes we are having just so much fun we are not really aware of spending habits. At least we should keep track of it and be aware of where are money is going. Since we are new college explorers, spending money can be more tempting since we have more freedom and time to do whatever we want. We wanted to show that you can go to college and have fun without having to spend a lot of money!

The topic of NYT project that our group chose is Education. Although all of our group members forced on different sub-topic, but the reason we chose Education as our big topic is because that it is the most important thing to us right now since we are currently college students.

I found two articles on the New York Times. The first one is about the higher education tuition. Who should really pay for the public colleges? It used to be the fifty-fifty police: the states pay the half and the students pay another half. However, public college started crossing this line in the past five years because the local government could not afford it. They have to concern about other things like medicare and K-12 educations, so the public college fee is getting higher. The second arctile i found it about the college athletics.  The NCAA get all the money from “selling” the athletic students but the students don’t get much money. However, NCAA argues that players should get nothing more than a scholarship, which has a possibility that the colleges may cancel it, and that is unfair to the athletic students.

i think both article are related to our topic, Education. Getting know about these news can know how them could affect us. We come to the college to get professional information and we hope that things would work well for us. Our group wish people to concern about the education so we chose this topic.

For NY Times project, my group chose the topic education, the reason that why we chose education as our project topic is that education is most important to us now. We want to be educated and get knowledge,  that’s why all of us go to college, because we want better education leads us to a better future. Besides that, we want to introduce education to everybody, because it is important to everybody. Also, there are many education issues going on in this world, since education is closest topic to un, we want to know more about these issues. For example, we talk about high achieved students from low-income class family in four years colleges has lower graduation rate than high achieved students from low-income class family in top universities. From this issues that we address, this may be helpful to other students who are still choosing college. Therefore, our group chose education to be our topic for NY Times project, because it is closest to our life today.

Our group chose  the topic of recycling globally and in Baruch. We decided to choose the topic because we are aware that Baruch has recently adopted the recycling system and global warming is a big issue. We are trying to have a control of the global warming and we thought it would be a good idea to bring up the topic since it is something we are trying to fight against the global warming together. It is also shocking that even though there are shout outs about it here and there, people are not putting much effort into the recycling. However, Baruch took an initiative to start the recycling program. We felt that it is a huge step and we felt that it is an important one and as a result of it, we are inspired to choose the topic. Also, in our first semester, Baruch’s recycling program caught our attention. As a result, we decided to choose the topic.

The New York Times project topic that my group and I chose was transportation. The reason why we chose this topic is because it has a lot of variations and articles to cover on the newspaper itself, (e.g.- airplane accidents, train accidents, ships, etc.) Another reason why we chose this topic was because it is relevant to almost everyone in the class; they all have to commute to school and most of the class have a rather long commute ranging from 30 plus minutes every school day. The last reason why we chose transportation was because it would be easier to make the article that was related to Baruch on it; there was a signal problem with the subway at DeKalb Ave which caused a lot of students in the class to be late that morning. These are the reasons why we chose transportation as our topic.

For, the New York Times project, our theme was transportation.  Our group chose this theme because transportation affects our everyday lives whether we are taking the train, taking the bus or driving a car to places we need to go.  Also, most students in Baruch commute so transportation do affect us. We want to bring attention to the issues we are having with transportation systems and how we can better them.  For example, most people want Wi-Fi underground so that its convenient and it is useful in case of emergency.  Another example is creating bike lanes for the cyclist in the busy streets of Manhattan.  Another can be improving the subway system so that it runs efficiently and be on time. This  allows students to get to class on time and allow people to get to work on time. We also want to focus on some of the good things, such as China’s safe and efficient train systems.  We always want to find improvements to benefit the people in society and have things ran efficiently.

Hi everyone! I am Yidong from China, you could call me Mike if you don’t know how to pronounce my name. I am from a city named SHENZHEN in China, a very crowed modern city whose population is rated above the top 5 cities of the whole world. I like art and music. I started to do art since I was very little and I had participated in many many art competitions since I was six years old. I created a art book of my own named “iArt” which contains most of the artwork I did that I feel most satisfied with. The art book contains many styles of art, including oil painting, sketches, color pencil work and my versions of the arts from Renaissance…….I am a music fan too. I love to sing and I write lyrics. Right now I am trying to learn music composition and music production. I am look forward to a career in the music industry in the future. I listened to all kinds of music from many sorts of language. My idol is Michael Jackson because he’s the best of all time lol Anyway, if any of you want to share some of your artwork or music please just talk to me and I will be glad to share mine too. Here’s a link of some of the pictures I like, just check it out.

The singer I like is

taylor swift.

I knew you were trouble.

22.

cold as you.

mean.

haunted.

better than revenger.

change

crazier

fearless

fifteen

Maybe because I broke up with my ex. I like her songs.

My name is Jiayuan Wang. You can call me Alice instead. I am from China.Three years before, I joined a summer camp and came to America. I traveled to many cities,like lA ,NY, Washington DC, Boston. I don’t like any of those cities,except New York. Manhattan is not only a big city but also unique because of the the mix of the cultures. Almost every big city has it’s own local people, and if you live there you can feel you are a outsider. And it is hard to integrate in. But Manhattan is a modern city witch formed by different peoples from everywhere in the world. I feel I can understand the world better from this city. So I love here.

The worst thing and the most beautiful thing is get away from home. I lived with parents in China in 17 years. They took care of me about every tiny things. It is now hard for me to live alone. But I am trying to. However, it is also a beautiful thing to me, because I have freedom now. I can eat whatever I want. In China, my parents don’t allow me to go out to eat because they said it is not healthy. Every time I hang out with my friends, my mother need to know every detail: whom I am hang out with, where we go,what we do. And I usually need to came back home before 5o’clock pm. Now, I feel free.

I love Baruch. Baruch is a good business school and locate in Manhattan with cheap tuition. I think my 4 years college life will be wonderful.

https://plus.google.com/photos/117774213843021640448/albums/5927561466168566385?authkey=CP7U6-iUv7jc7AE

I am Zhifna Ye, you also can call me Kevin. I come form Shanghai, one of the most modern and international city in China. As a big city, Shanghai have its own dual character.
In many tourist’s eye Shanghai is full with tall buildings and financial center. But my favorite place in Shanghai is different kind old fashion streets and the feeling of old Shanghai. Another my favorite thing is food, I would like to try different kinds foods from different places. I like music, I can play piano and cello. But I also like pop music very much. I like travel, I like to visit around the world.

This is my third years in states, I spent my first two years in Philadelphia and I went to a high school called Archbishop Ryan. Philadelphia is also a historical city, there are many scenic spots could show the history of United States.

Now I come to New York and Baruch. As the biggest city in the states, there are many similar points with Shanghai. But there still is a totally fresh place for me. I also glad to come to Baruch.