 Gabriella Cookton, I am a third year in the European and Russian Studies Bachelor of Arts Honors Program. My research, it was a broad analysis of the exodus of Russian military aged male refugees from the country to destination countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus as a result of their exclusion by the European Union's visa regimes. Definitely a learning experience I realized that I had no idea how to do research as an academic would prior to this. I think the way we're taught it in our university classes is much more condensed than the actual research project which works for the classes but for someone who intends to pursue an academic career it was absolutely crucial that I learn directly from my professors how they conduct research and especially in doing direct interviews with sources and trying to understand in the way the networks that supported these refugees functioned on the ground level it took a lot of looking at topics and shifting focus and sort of reorienting myself pretty frequently until I was able to condense my research into a specific focus within the subtopic.