Wednesday, February 22, 2012
All systems are go!
My professor approved the idea of a bake sale for my service learning project! I am so excited to see this through. All I've got to do now is get in touch with some folks, set a date and location, and hold the sale itself. It won't be easy, because college stops for no baker, but I'm sure it will go well. I have told a few people close to me about the idea and project, and they want to support my effort in any way that they can; I am so grateful for that. This is going to be a lot of fun!
Friday, February 10, 2012
Ambition!
So, I went home for the weekend because I had an MRI to take (right after the first exam of the semester, wonderful macromolecules!). I was obliged to take the day off from studying and so found myself looking at recipes for hours. I really, really love to cook, especially to bake. After preparing a Pavlova with lemon curd (sweet, crisp, marshmallowy meringue cake with a lemon custard topping), I flipped through the latest edition of Food Network magazine and came across this website and its project: http://www.cookiesforkidscancer.org/ .
These wonderful families whose children have suffered from pediatric cancer are not only not giving up on finding a cure but are raising money and awareness for it. Their efforts piqued every facet of my nature-- I thought immediately that I should host at least one bake sale for them at the university. It won't be the easiest project to tackle, and it will surely take far more than 10 hours, but the cause is so worthwhile. And who wouldn't want to bake cookies to help children suffering from the sickness that claims the life of more children than AIDS, muscular dystrophy, asthma, and multiple sclerosis combined?
Thus, I am making this second post to mark my decision to host a bake sale for Cookies for Kids' Cancer. I sure hope it gets approved!
These wonderful families whose children have suffered from pediatric cancer are not only not giving up on finding a cure but are raising money and awareness for it. Their efforts piqued every facet of my nature-- I thought immediately that I should host at least one bake sale for them at the university. It won't be the easiest project to tackle, and it will surely take far more than 10 hours, but the cause is so worthwhile. And who wouldn't want to bake cookies to help children suffering from the sickness that claims the life of more children than AIDS, muscular dystrophy, asthma, and multiple sclerosis combined?
Thus, I am making this second post to mark my decision to host a bake sale for Cookies for Kids' Cancer. I sure hope it gets approved!
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Pilot
I am not a blogger. I use Facebook perhaps once every 2 weeks or so, and I am not known for being public about, well, anything. Yet, I feel that this is the best approach to this volunteer project, because it is paperless and easy to keep up with.
Anyway, a little background information is necessary to get this project going. My name is Holly, and I am a freshman at the University of St. Thomas. My current path is that of the pre-med double major of Biology and Philosophy, the former being my ultimate passion and the latter being an intriguing subject that has been growing on me quite quickly. For Intro to Cell and Molecular Biology, students are required to undertake a Service Learning project for 10 hours throughout the semester, and such a project must have a scientific background. The choices for this project are to either tutor in underserved Houston area schools or to find another project and have it approved. As much as I love children and helping them, I am rather dreadful at explaining things and would be, as a teacher, more of a hindrance than a help; people who know me personally have found that I have a talent for being very confusing. So, I must find an alternative that will put what talents I do have (save stupefaction, which is useful for no good) to work in order to benefit others.
My current idea for this project is to volunteer at my old school district's free health clinic for students. I went there on a couple of occasions, to be vaccinated for school and for bronchitis, and I have found their services to be wonderful despite the lack of workers and proliferation of children who require their help. My mother is a school nurse within the district and has expressed her admiration of the nurse practitioner who heads the clinic, for it is apparently a very stressful and thankless job. Therefore, I would enjoy helping the people who work there so that the most children can be treated and less people will have to be turned away due to time constraint.
So I conclude this blog entry in the hopes that its wishes will become fulfilled. May God bless you, reader, in everything you do.
Sincerely, Holly (1/17/12)
Anyway, a little background information is necessary to get this project going. My name is Holly, and I am a freshman at the University of St. Thomas. My current path is that of the pre-med double major of Biology and Philosophy, the former being my ultimate passion and the latter being an intriguing subject that has been growing on me quite quickly. For Intro to Cell and Molecular Biology, students are required to undertake a Service Learning project for 10 hours throughout the semester, and such a project must have a scientific background. The choices for this project are to either tutor in underserved Houston area schools or to find another project and have it approved. As much as I love children and helping them, I am rather dreadful at explaining things and would be, as a teacher, more of a hindrance than a help; people who know me personally have found that I have a talent for being very confusing. So, I must find an alternative that will put what talents I do have (save stupefaction, which is useful for no good) to work in order to benefit others.
My current idea for this project is to volunteer at my old school district's free health clinic for students. I went there on a couple of occasions, to be vaccinated for school and for bronchitis, and I have found their services to be wonderful despite the lack of workers and proliferation of children who require their help. My mother is a school nurse within the district and has expressed her admiration of the nurse practitioner who heads the clinic, for it is apparently a very stressful and thankless job. Therefore, I would enjoy helping the people who work there so that the most children can be treated and less people will have to be turned away due to time constraint.
So I conclude this blog entry in the hopes that its wishes will become fulfilled. May God bless you, reader, in everything you do.
Sincerely, Holly (1/17/12)
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