{"id":13810,"date":"2019-06-06T12:31:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/?p=13810"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:04:33","slug":"week-1-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2019\/06\/06\/week-1-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Sarah,<\/span><\/p>\n

Going into any new experience is scary, but it\u2019s something you crave. You have a grand desire to learn and to change. You\u2019re excited to meet new people and have new experiences, even if you\u2019re thinking in the back of your mind that it could all go so wrong. You\u2019re scared that who you have been for your whole life won\u2019t be enough for this experience, and you will change in ways that will make you unrecognizable on the other side. <\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re not really sure what to expect from this program yet, but you feel optimistic. Basically, you\u2019re hoping to gain confidence and skills: a greater understanding of what you might do after college, experience in the \u201creal world\u201d, knowledge of Detroit, everything you haphazardly wrote down on your internship goals sheet (pictured below). Specifically, you wrote: greater confidence in a professional environment and taking initiative, a better understanding of how non-profits work, completion of a project that I think will benefit the organization, experience working within multiple different facets of the organization (programs, outreach, etc), experience working in a professional setting, and experience working with young people. Honestly, all of that sounds good. You think that anything that you might learn – so long as it is true, and so long that it is some sort of skill- will be beneficial to your personal and professional growth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After these first few days you\u2019re trying to combat the fear that your internship isn\u2019t super organized with excitement for the opportunity to take initiative and design what you want to do. There are some set tasks and set hours, but it seems like you will oftentimes have the ability to work at home. Like everything, that\u2019s good and bad. It seems like you will just need to maintain open communication with your supervisor. You are excited about how you will have the opportunity to work on multiple aspects of the organization: assisting with programs and the store, administrative stuff, as well as your research project and volunteer outreach. You\u2019ve been asked if there\u2019s anything you\u2019re interested in spearheading and that\u2019s exciting as well. You\u2019re interested in looking into some of the less efficient aspects of the organization (cough, organization), and seeing if you can take charge there. Overall, it seems like there are a lot of opportunities for you!<\/span><\/p>\n

And your perception of Detroit: it\u2019s big and unknown, but you\u2019ve been making your way around. Everyone\u2019s told you to make sure that you \u201cget out of Midtown and the 7.2\u201d, and admittedly, you haven\u2019t done that yet (unless your internship location in Eastern Market is outside of that- and you\u2019re not sure). You\u2019ve gone to Dearborn to get groceries, but that\u2019s not in the city. It\u2019s such an injustice that so many Detroiters have to go outside of the city to get decent food.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re excited to do some more exploring this weekend, and you know there are a lot of fun events going on. You\u2019re already going to have friends in town for Pride, and you\u2019ll probably take on the role of tour guide, even though you barely know the area. You just got comfortable with reclining your feet on the empty seat next to you on the Q-line this morning. Anyway, you\u2019re hoping that you spend most of your weekends out and about, and you will make sure that happens, even if it\u2019s just baby steps.<\/span><\/p>\n

Best of luck!<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Sarah, Going into any new experience is scary, but it\u2019s something you crave. You have a grand desire to learn and to change. You\u2019re excited to meet new people and have new experiences, even if you\u2019re thinking in the back of your mind that it could all go so wrong. You\u2019re scared that who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15380,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13810\/revisions\/15380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}