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Hi Future Scarlett! Here’s a little blast from the past… This is the part where you’re a wide-eyed, brand-new fellow for FoodLab Detroit and you’re excited every day to see what you’re going to learn from working with this non-profit organization. Hopefully by the time you’re reading this, your sunburn from visiting your family in Florida […]

Dear Timothy in the future, Hello and welcome to your summer in Detroit! By this point, I am done with my first few days on the job and can say I am becoming more acclimated to the atmosphere and dynamic of the EcoWorks organization; I am very excited to see where the summer takes me.

Dear Cielo, Pienso que voy a aprender mucho en esta programa. Quiero practicar mi español y conectar con los residentes de mi organización. Es chulo que 90% de los residentes aquí son españolas hablantes. En serio, solo estoy escribiendo en español porque tengo bloqueo de escritor. Now that I got that out of my system,

Dear Kayla – Today was day 4 of the 10 weeks I will spend with Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision. This experience got off to a bit of a slow start, although that tends to be common with new jobs. The first few days were spent getting acclimated to the office and the work that last

Dear Joy, Hey girl — you got this. So what do you expect from this program? Well right now you expect to create a guide for Brilliant Detroit regarding expansion practices, which will be used and revised long after you’re gone. Having talked with former DCBRP interns, I’m sure you’ll feel rewarded about the work

Hey Charlie, You know you’re my guy, right? Have I ever steered you wrong? Hey, probably. BUT THESE NEXT NINE WEEKS WILL NOT HAVE BEEN ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR MISGUIDED ANTICS! It’s been a crazy, chaotic, uncomfortable, and scary week, my boy. You hate being the inept new guy. I know that. You’re easy to

Dear Shay, First thing I want to say is, you did great, I mean you did the thang! I know you were intimidated by this project at first and to be completely honest, you still are. You may be asking how do I know that you succeeded when I haven’t lived it yet, well it’s simply

Dear Aasha, Before you arrived at Wayne State on Saturday, you had already named the 9 weeks you would be there your “Summer Soundtrack – Independent Woman Edition”. So each blog post will be tied to that theme somehow. You’re already used to not living with your parents, but this is a totally different type

Dear 21-year-old Anna,   I’m finishing my third day and things are still a little bit disorganised and a little bit slow. I’m excited about my project because it focuses on energy efficiency in affordable housing units, and I’m passionate about community-engaged economic development and housing policy. It hits close to home because it’s something

Dear Sierra, It’s day three of your internship and already you’ve had the opportunity to jump right into planning Friends of Parkside’s Annual Health Fair and attend a conference, “Beyond the Ivory Tower.” At this conference, you learned not only how important community-academic partnerships are, but how important it is to initiate and maintain community-academic