Gustavo Serratos
Master’s Student
Urban Planning

“Graduate school has been a great experience. I’m so happy I got to study Urban Planning at U-M. I’ve met so many awesome people and had the chance to do so many great things. I live with a diverse group of six other people from all over the world, from India, China, Brazil and all over the U.S. It’s amazing how I traveled all the way to learn about a movement in the city where one of my suitemates grew up and got to tell him all about it. At the same time my suitemate from India got to do an externship here in Detroit, very close to where I grew up and was able to share with me about an organization I also knew little about. It has been a full circle experience that broadened my world but at the same time made it feel small. Everywhere I go I see the block M.”

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