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Well, setting up a blog was not as hard as I thought it would be. When deciding what name to give this blog, I decided "finally volunteering" was more than appropriate. You see, being an international student in the U.S., I was unable to receive scholarships of any type, regardless of academic achivement, so time that could have gone towards volunteering was used to keep two jobs: one as a chemistry tutor and another as a retail sales associate.

Thankfully, I became a resident last year, and the scholarships I have received have done enough good in keeping me working one job, rather than two, while being a full time student at the University of St. Thomas.

So, with the free time I now have this semester, I hope I can find a volunteering spot to fufill the requirements of a Service Learning Assignment set up by my Cell Biology and Med Microbiology instructors, and hopefully more.

In case this is being read by more than just my instructors and/or fellow classmates, the purpose of the Service Learning Project is to:

Volunteer at an under-served clinic in the city of Houston for a total of 10 hours throughout the semester... [To] identify the top infectious diseases treated at the medical facility at which you volunteer, and come up with a brochure or hand-out designed to educate the patient on these diseases.

I have already emailed a couple of clinics. Hopefully I will get a response soon enough.
So, that's the plan for now. Feel free to comment; even if you do not have an account on this service I beleive leaving a post is quite easy.

- Yamal