Dustin Rust, 30, of Ypsilanti, is a post Graduate student with a degree in biology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is now on the path to becoming a Doctor of Osteopathy and hopes his classes at Washtenaw Community College and Eastern Michigan University will lead to Medical School at Michigan State.
“I love spring break because everyone else takes off and the town gets quiet”, said Rust who spent his spring break logging volunteer hours for his med school app. “I started volunteering at Hope Clinic in Ypsi for the first time over break” he said.
According to Rust Hope clinic is a non-profit doctors office that sees patients with no health insurance and issues prescriptions for free meds, usually from Kmart. “I trained to help the walk in patients fill out the paperwork on Saturday mornings, a long line starts forming outside at 6am but the clinic doesn’t open until 8”.
Dustin also volunteered at Holy Trinity Church at EMU as a lector, sacristan, altar boy, usher, and Eucharistic minster. “It was crazy I felt like a pin ball trying to do all those tasks at once” said Rust “I was only supposed to read but none of the other volunteers showed up so I had to do everything”.
Rust didn’t spend his entire break working he recalls having to drink all the wine left over after Mass and later that night, full of the spirit he beat his parents at euchre.
“The weather was nice so I rode my bicycle to the Ypsilanti Food Co-op to pick up some stuff and cooked for my girlfriend.” Rust likes the co-op because its right around the corner from his house and they sell healthy foods.
On Saturday he attended the Ann Arbor farmers market to try to find some lamb “but the lamb lady had left”. Said Rust who likes to eat locally raised food when he can. “That’s really all I just hung out and enjoyed having the town to myself.”
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