This semester seemed to have flown by, even if there were parts that seemed to move so slowly. Despite the opinions of students in other FYE classes, I think our class could collectively agree that we had a good experience, contributed both by a great teacher, peer helper, and diverse range of students from all walks of life. It united us together to dig deep into (sometimes) controversial topics and breach the wall of discomfort to better understand situations and differing perspectives. The first student learning outcome FYE is designed to teach is to develop and apply information literacy skills in academic and non-academic contexts. As honors students, we are expected to write a thesis before graduating as well as understand that all of the research papers we write are held to much higher standards. We did not really need to spend a lot of time writing an actual research paper because we had definitely done enough of those. Instead, we constructed an outline and found two sources