As the end draws near working for the Detroit Food Academy, I am shocked about how much I have done and learned. It saddens me knowing that I only have less than two more weeks until UROP ends. Week 8 was mostly focused on putting the final touches on my project and drawing conclusions. I […]
I cannot believe that week eight is over–time flies! I had fun working for Chiwara. It was inspiring to interact with approximately 20 people from different backgrounds who came to the Chiwara’s 1-day intensive to learn how to apply permaculture into their lives. I enjoy learning about their backgrounds, their perspectives about what is social
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Last Wednesday and/or Thursday, between the hours of 17:00 and 8:30, my bicycle was stolen off of the rack outside of the entrance to Atchison Hall Raleigh Avenir Aka David’s Baby December 25th, 2010 – July 18th, 2013 Boloved Mode of Transit, Recreation, Horror of Pedestrians and Savior of the Environment. She/He/It saw many leagues
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“I am on a vacation,” was my mentality as I traveled with my director, Nate, and my co-worker, Alan, to Beaver Island for a four-days company’s first ever retreat. I felt honored and extremely grateful that they invited and allowed me to go on the first company’s retreat with them, even though I am only
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Last weekend, Amber and I visited the DIA because, shockingly, I hadn’t been there in years. It’s difficult realizing all of the things I have missed out on just because of my peers’ prejudices surrounding Detroit. I guess the positive way to view that is, at least I’m experiencing it now! One thing that I really
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I finally know what it’s like to have strangers slam a door in my face. Well, okay, it only happened a few times, and it wasn’t really a slam as me getting two words out and the residents backing very quickly into their homes with, “We’re really not interested,” and a quick closing-and-locking maneuver. This
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One of the main lessons I learned this week was, creating and passing out surveys is exciting, but retrieving, recording, and analyzing the data is not that great. I was able to round-up 82 high school students to take a survey I created, while telling them details about the program. Being in the public sector
This week proved to me that there is always something new to learn each day and I am always not cultured enough. I experienced and learned so many life lessons that I can and will apply to my life. First, I want to mention my introduction to more stereotypes related to African Americans. Through my
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Unfortunately my blog posts have been a little dry lately because I’ve been pretty busy at work, but that’s good because I have learnt a whole heck of a lot. I think an important thing this job taught me about policy is that you shouldn’t always be interested in JUST the “sexy” political topics. By
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This is written more for the future spawn of CBRF students; my predecessors rather than the snots I’m working with now (JK I love you guys). This past week, I got next to 0 research work done for the Go Green Challenge. While my mentor, Emile, was out on vacation, I did a lot of
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