 My name is Shawn Gilliard, Prabhu Singh, Michael Orr, Haley Latka, Katie Williams, and I'm a financial economics major, biology and art major, environmental studies major, ACS chemistry major, biology and French major. And we looked at the effects of minimum wage on employment for teenagers within the restaurant industry on a county level. We did research on a prairie in Leola, South Dakota. This prairie has bison on it and we got to do research on mating behavior with the bison. We were studying water quality for Seven Mile Creek as well as some of its tributaries. Along with two-dimensional liquid chromatography, I also did a lot of work with mass spectrometry. I got to do research in a synthetic organic chemistry lab with one of the organic professors. I met Dr. Stoll at a FICA event hosted by the chemistry department one Friday. And we saw, I think, 11 or 12 bison fights and we couldn't even keep track of all of the data. We had to have two people go out to make sure we were recording everything. We're getting to actually do research over the summer and something that's like close to the field that I want to work in was super helpful. My best day is when I got the results from running my regressions. It took us like a month to gather the data and took us like three weeks to run these regressions and once I finally got a number it was like the best day over my entire summer. You really get to like just explore and kind of have fun like, oh, that didn't work the way we thought it was going to. Let's just look at that for a while. There was a lot more opportunities for you to be doing your own work, kind of looking into what interested you specifically. I'm really interested in pursuing a doctoral degree in analytical chemistry and that really wouldn't have even been a reality if I hadn't had research experience because before coming to Gustavus and getting in the research lab I had no idea what chemistry looked like in the real world. By doing research over the summer I was doing what I would be doing in the future. So it was like hands-on approach and really let me experience what I will be doing in the future. Go Gusties! Go Gusties! Go Gusties! Go Gusties! Go Gusties!