Dear Ayat, This week is your first week living in Midtown. You’re happy, because you’re getting along well with your roommates, and you have a supervisor who values your opinion and wants you to feel valued in your work space. You’re working with parents and educators in different parts of the city, and right now, […]
Dear Leah, Summer of 2017 will be the summer where you learn and experience a lot. Though you aren’t quite sure about what you want to do career wise, you know that you are very interested in public health and you expect the Detroit community Based Research Program (DCBRP) to help you gain experience in solving
Dear Maddy, You are living somewhere that’s not Ann Arbor and working at a real 9-5 job for the first time, so that alone should make this summer exciting. Detroit offers so many opportunities to learn, as well as have fun and eat good food, that I can’t wait to take advantage of. One of
Alejandro, You knew you wanted to begin this internship opportunity by hitting the ground running. It also looks like your organization did as well when they handed you the work you needed to get through over the next week. While the amount of paper work is large in volume, it is also large in importance. The
Dear Jean, Whenever you engage in this sort of third-person self-talk, it’s usually when you’ve messed up big time, or done something really embarrassing. Like that time you were too self-conscious to bike past a group of students on the Diag so you cycled around a tree six times while trying to think of an
one down, upward bound Read More »
Dear Marissa, I’m writing this after my third day of work at Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision. The first week has been good so far! I like the project I’m working on and the people I work with. SDEV has a ton of cool projects going on, so I hope by the time I’m done I’ll
Today marks the last work day of the first week at my internship at Friends of Parkside. When I first walked into the office of Parkside, I was somewhat nervous yet excited about this new expenditure. My task for the summer is to coordinate the 9th Annual Health Fair FOP (Friends of Park Side) holds
Dear Sahil, When you look back at this blog post in nine weeks, I hope that you have accomplished all of your goals. After meeting the people in the program and starting work, I am optimistic and enthusiastic about my future in Detroit. First, I hope that you have truly become acquainted and friendly with
Week #1 – There Are Birds Here Read More »
Okay so let’s talk! It’s been three days since I started at the Detroit Food Academy (DFA) and I’ve already done so much. The first day started off sort of slow with so much reading. So. Much. Reading! But I learned so much. The articles answered a lot of the questions that you had when
Week 1: Here we go! Read More »
Dear Alyson, Looks like you finally moved in to your apartment in Detroit! I would suppose you’re both very excited to start your position as well as be rather nervous about being on your own like this, cooking for yourself, going to work, but I suppose you should get used to it eventually. As of
