Unfortunately, no volunteer work or extracurricular activities other than data entry and maintenance for my father's business. Most volunteer opportunities are distant so I pushed it aside, but I'm considering volunteer work for a hospital to gain experience in a medical environment. I'm just lacking references right now considering I burned a lot of bridges and I was too shy to make myself noticed in classrooms with more than 100 students. I'm also somewhat embarrassed to ask professors that do know me - I just feel like they have enough busy work as it is without being bothered with background checks.

I still have to complete a research project, which I plan to do this summer. I have the contact information for a senior project manager of a company that biologically engineers antiviruses so as awkward as it seems - I may ask to do nonprofit research with them. Can't hurt to try I suppose. Otherwise I will look for a research group on campus.

I would like to start out as a lab technician - running gels, sequencing DNA, basic protocols. Beggars can't be choosers though.