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Aaron Robertson glances back as well as ahead as the Princeton University senior from Redford savors a top-rank academic achievement.

"Couldn't have happened without the people at MT [Metro Times]," he graciously tweets Monday after winning a Rhodes Scholarship to study for two years at the University of Oxford in England for a master's degree in modern languages.

The Ivy Leaguer also tweets:


Princeton senior Aaron Robertson of Redford is praised as "one of the most productive summer editorial interns at Metro Times." (Facebook photo)

Robertson, who was born in Detroit and graduated from the private University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe Woods, "had an unusually productive internship with Metro Times this summer," the Ferndale-based weekly says in a blog post. It adds:

Though our summer intern bullpen is often crowded with ambitious students wanting to make their summers count, Robertson was one of the most productive summer editorial interns at Metro Times in the staff’s memory.

Despite a shorter-than-usual summer term, given his demanding academic schedule, he wrote two dozen pieces.

For this part, the student's tweet thanks the paper's editors "for giving your interns the freedom to find their own stories."

His MT coverage from June to August includes reports on:

Robertson clearly is proud of his summer back home, detailed in two paragraphs at his LinkedIn page. 

-- Alan Stamm

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