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Hey Erin,   So, you made it! You did everything you said you wanted to do with this internship. You learned a lot of transferrable skills. You met knew people. You experienced the new Detroit. This was one of the best summers of your life, and I know you’ll remember it forever. What you skills […]

Wow, I can’t believe that we’ve reached the end of the Detroit Community Based Research Program. I remember being accepted into the program and being excited about my journey working in Detroit, a city that’s become somewhat unfamiliar to me within the past couple of years. While reading my first blog post, I became reminiscent

Driving through Detroit is frustrating and confusing due to the presence of what feels like 10 different highways interlacing through the city that need to be taken to go anywhere. They’re difficult to navigate and I’ve always hated driving here because of them. I was thoroughly confused why they were designed the way they were

Dear Ayat, You’ve been eating a lot of food you shouldn’t be. Like chocolate cake. And delicious Mexican food. And fried cauliflower, and french fries. Also, you can barely lift weights anymore. Yikes. Besides turning into a sloth again, the DCBRP program has been a lot different than you thought it would be. You came

A section in Origins of the Urban Crisis titled The Casual Labor Market talked about the litany of black workers that were delegated to casual work as it suited their employers. The section talked about how black workers, because of their desperation for work, were treated as a second-class of workers, often receiving incrementally less

I thought that the events we attended were always both very interesting, and very informative. The Tuesday meetings ended up being my favorite of the two, just because I felt like there was more variation in them. The Arab American Museum event was probably my favorite, just because it completely surprised me with how good

I am sad to see the program end. Looking over my first blog post, I noticed a lot of grammatical errors in my writing. I was so excited to start, I probably should’ve read over my blog post. But on to the more important topic, the content. I agree with everything I stated in the

The Origins of the Urban Crisis was overall kind of boring and dull. I did read about some interesting things such as the economic and housing loss that accelerated Detroit’s housing loss. Although my family did not move from Detroit, we were affected by this housing loss during 2008. Our house was foreclosed and we

My initial letter is full of optimism and enthusiasm and I’m happy to say that I was not wrong to feel that way. The past 10 weeks have taught me even more than I thought they would.  While I have learned about Detroit, community work, and food access as I was expecting to, I have

I only knew 4 of the 20 members of the Detroit Community Based Research Program beforehand. I was somewhat anxious about meeting the colleagues that I would be working with for the next 10 weeks, I didn’t know what to expect, it was like starting the school year all over again in regards to meeting