Let’s be honest. The past ten weeks were filled with both\u00a0great experiences and great challenges. \u00a0I would like to believe I have risen to those challenges, savored those experiences and, beside that point, I\u00a0feel that I have grown as a person over the course of this program. I have made\u00a0many great friends (both at work and through Wayne State) who I\u00a0will continue to get to know in the coming months and years, I have\u00a0left my mark at my organization, and I am able to look back on my time here\u00a0happily.<\/p>\n
Reading this initial blog post, some of the things I wrote really bother me; the language I used is disrespectful to my organization and my coworkers, the post focuses on the negative aspects of what I had seen (although it includes positives), and\u00a0I think it\u00a0shows a lot that I naturally reacted most strongly to this, as opposed to the opportunities that my work offered me. However, I was also being very open with my thoughts (i.e. not having any filter on what I published for anyone to see) and really just trying to find my way after diving right\u00a0into this new work environment.<\/p>\n
From my position leaving this program,\u00a0I can see all the good that happened throughout my time here.\u00a0I think my coworkers would say that they are happy with the work I have done, but I feel that I now have some of the skills to do so much more in 10 weeks. My perceptions of the organization and the\u00a0community are based in the experiences that I had there, albeit heavily influenced\u00a0by my coworkers’ perspectives and stories. I have a much more nuanced knowledge of places I previously knew next to nothing about or that I had never heard of; I think these are the changed that I have experienced that I wasn’t able to envision. As someone who has lived in Okemos for 18 years and Ann Arbor for 8 months, I have never gone through a transition like the one I did adopting to “city life.” This experience was not really stressful to me at all (adopting to work was a little bit more so), but it has given me firsthand experience in many of the social issues that I can only hear about from those places (although Mid-town isn’t all that different in many ways…). The biggest,\u00a0most dramatic change I feel that I have gone through is\u00a0acquiring a broader perspective.<\/p>\n
At this point I\u00a0feel there are so many doors which are newly open to me,\u00a0from very familiar ones to others that are more distant and mysterious. Some may seem older, more traditional; others may be polished, fancy, and enchanting to my particular taste.\u00a0A whole world lies beyond each and every one of them, and\u00a0I have a feeling that I’ll curiously stumble\u00a0through one of them sooner than I expect.<\/p>\n
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PS shout out to Ana for teaching me how to take care of my curls. and to Noor if she reads this blog post like she says she does. and to Ryan for “letting” me beat him at fifa. and most importantly, to Gloria\u00a0simply for serving as an example of how to\u00a0create positive change in this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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