Last spring semester I was chosen to be a research assistant for a professor here at Agnes Scott. I was tasked with coming up with 10 articles every two weeks that could help add to the knowledge of the topic we were researching. Being able to contribute to a peers and a professors research by spending multiple nights sifting though many research databases, numerous articles, and hundreds of authors taught me a really important lesson. Through this laborious work I have gained refined researching skills in regards to finding scientific articles to support my own research. I am now better able to find more specific articles that better tie into my own current research because I am knowledgable in how to use keywords and phrases when looking for articles. Additionally, I learned how to better my time management skills because I had strict deadlines to meet and without reviewing the existing literature, my peer and my professor would have had a gap in their research. This taught me reliability because reviewing the research would not have gotten done with out me.