The biggest thing I've taken away from the process of writing a research paper is the need to repeatedly engage with it throughout the whole process. Thinking about my thesis and what my argument is going to look like has been crucial to the writing process. Things like how secondary sources are being brought into conversation and how my own argument might shift depending on the scholarly debate, or how my thesis is supported by or perhaps becomes more nuanced when I look at the primary artifact again. I've found myself having to refactor and reconsider my own argument throughout the writing process, working it to become more focused and factoring in specific terminology and ideas. A big part of this has been my engagement with Professor Fan's lectures and works, as I found his concepts of Post-65 Asian American science fiction, and especially his discussion of how historical and economic factors shaped Asian American literature, to be extremely relevant to my idea of the underlying career narrative found in Everything Everywhere All at Once. This is another thing I'd recommend to someone working on their research paper, speak to professors and lectures within Humanities Core. While it may not be the case that a single professor corresponds as well to the primary artifact of choice as Professor Fan was for my pick of Everything Everywhere All at Once, I still believe that having the discussion at all is extremely helpful. I managed to clear up some of my misconceptions of his lectures and propose my tentative thesis with Fan, which he offered feedback for. He also asked me some simple questions checking on how robust my argument was, I remember in particular he simply asked, "So what? What is your bigger picture past the observations you are making about the film", and in the process of answering I found an additional angle to strengthen my thesis.