{"id":12173,"date":"2014-12-20T02:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/?p=58"},"modified":"2014-12-20T02:45:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:45:29","slug":"thank-you-challenge-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/thank-you-challenge-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Challenge Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2014\/12\/challenge-detroit-site-pic.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-59\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2014\/12\/challenge-detroit-site-pic-150x150.png\" alt=\"challenge detroit site pic\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a Challenge Detroit fellow for 4 months now.\u00a0 I cannot believe how quickly the time is going.\u00a0 It is even weirder to think back to the day that I applied for the first round of the fellowship.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t think that I stood a chance of actually being selected.\u00a0 It is surreal to be living it now.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good reminder for me not to take this experience foregranted.<\/p>\n<p>I know that as the year approaches an end, I&#8217;ll remember this time period &#8211; when I still had so much of the Fellowship year left to go.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I will reflect on how well I lived the experience.\u00a0 My hope is that I will be able to say that I immersed myself in it &#8211; that I got to know my co-fellows, that I did my best at my host company and in the challenges, that I tried a lot of new things and pushed myself to go to events, even when I was tired.\u00a0I&#8217;m relieved to know that I still have time to make the fellowship what I want it to be.<\/p>\n<p>Another reflection I have about this topic is that\u00a0my acceptance into this fellowship has shown me that\u00a0\u00a0I am\u00a0capable of being\u00a0accepted into the\u00a0programs I\u00a0apply for.\u00a0 While it always\u00a0seems like someone else will &#8220;get it&#8221; (my feeling throughout my\u00a0Challenge Detroit application process), we really can be the people who get selected.\u00a0 I am going to do my best to remember this lesson\u00a0as I continue to apply\/try for things.<\/p>\n<p>So, thank you Challenge Detroit &#8211; for seeing something in me, for giving me the opportunity to be a part of all of the cool things the fellowship has to offer and for inspiring me to be optimistic\u00a0about my\u00a0future endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_0491.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-42\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2014\/11\/IMG_0491-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0491\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been a Challenge Detroit fellow for 4 months now.\u00a0 I cannot believe how quickly the time is going.\u00a0 It is even weirder to think back to the day that I applied for the first round of the fellowship.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t think that I stood a chance of actually being selected.\u00a0 It is surreal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}