What is a research paper?

<p>^Yea I know…My parents are not Ph.D.'s and I had to contact like 20 professors before one accepted me. Not a single person in the math department was willing to accept me, even though some of them accepted others just because they knew their parents. I’m doing something that’s related to math, but not pure math, which is what I wanted to do because I am interested in doing that in college.</p>