It has been an amazing first week at MSA. As soon as I arrived, I absolutely fell in love with downtown Ferndale and the office space. I did get a little lost in finding the space but luckily my supervisor came to the rescue. The Ferndale office (since there is a Ypsilanti office as well) …
I had a fresh first week. I spent most of my time outside of the office. Thank God himself that I was not strapped to my laptop doing research most of the time. The employees are cool and relaxed. A plus to this week was being able to play with a coworker’s kids, especially the …
I was placed at the Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation and could not be happier! The GRDC is a community nonprofit that works for the residents of five neighborhoods: Grandmont, Grandmont #1, Rosedale, North Rosedale, and Minnock Park. While they do organize community events like a Farmer’s Market and engage in beautification, they are not simply …
Well, this first week has truly been something. I would say my transition was much easier than some of the other interns because one, I am from Detroit and two, I did not have to move into the dorms (hope you all are adjusting well by the way!) Monday at our seminar was my first …
It’s only been a week with Nortown Community Development Corporation (Nortown CDC) and I know this is the place I should be in this summer. I’ve had quite a week here and I am excited to see where this goes. A little bit about Nortown — their big ongoing project right now is called RESTORE …
Well, no wonder it feels like it’s been so much longer. I’m in a new city, surrounded by new people, doing new things, trying to survive off of my own attempt at “cooking” for the first time. Not to mention the extraordinary amount of learning that’s only just begun. I could go off on winding …
My experience so far with Detroit 300 has been fantastic. I love the Compuware building and it is pretty cool to see tons of people going about their days… working… for real and actually taking part in that for a summer. It’s especially crazy to see the floods of people going out to eat at …
Today was my first day of work and my first day of taking Mass transit in Detroit. Coming from Washington DC I have always used busses and mass transit to get around, yet there are some differences between the DC and Detroit busses. First the Detroit bus stops are not where they say they are …
