This past week, my volunteer experience was different than any earlier. This week, because there are no more lost tickets and no new patients to put into the system I volunteered at the dental clinic on the third floor of the San Jose Clinic. They are currently trying to put about 10 or so boxes in storage and so they need volunteers to write down the names and patient numbers of the files that are in those boxes. So basically all I did was go through the box and write down patient name and number on a piece of paper give it me, and then once the paper was filled (approximately 20 or so names) the paper would be filed in the box to show the next volunteer where I may have stopped.
In the process of filling out these pages, I got to talking to one of the dentists that works in the clinic. He was very nice and talkative. I asked him about why he wanted to become a dentist. He said that he actually wanted to go to medical school and got rejected the first time. He decided he would just reapply to medical school, but his uncle who was a dentist as well, suggested that he would become a great dentist. And after talking to his uncle some more, he decided to become a dentist. Seems like a good story, and it was nice to hear about why people become whatever they do "when they grow up".
While I was working, another UST student actually joined me. Though we aren't good friends, it was nice to see another student there.
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