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I have never been good with kids. I find them extremely adorable, but I just didn't have the qualities to work well with them, especially if they started crying, I would panic. Just this year, from mid-April to mid-May, I volunteered for Junior Achievement. My professor had a speaker come in to talk about Junior Achievement. We filled out a sheet with our name, city, and if we were to take this opportunity, which grade level would we like to volunteer for. After the presentation, I handed my sheet to the speaker and said, "I'm still thinking about this, thank you." But because the speaker was multi-tasking, she didn't hear me. A couple of days later, I get an email from her telling other students and I that she was excited that we would be

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