The Final Stages

My degree is in its final stages. I just talked with a professor who will work with me on my big final degree ending (and hopefully passsing) paper. The topic, broadly, is about Russia's energy hegemony in Eurasia/Central Asia and how it will affect regional and international security. I'm just in the beginning stages of looking up books, conferences and other materials before I take the plunge into outlining and writing a 50 to 70 page paper. That's far more than I've ever written for any one paper, but I take heart from the fact that last semester that's about how much I wrote throughout. Since this fall semester is solely focused on my substantial research paper (or SRP, as they call it at AU), it's definitely possible. It will be a challenge and I will succeed.