I'm a 22 year-old female who found out about this through a 'This Week in Science' image on Facebook. Amazing where social media can lead you, isn't it? Anyway, I was curious about this project and wanted to participate.

I love metal, mostly symphonic metal, power metal, and progressive metal. I'm also going to join the army and am hoping I can get a job in linguistics, specifically in Japanese. I've been learning Japanese for going on three years now. I don't study as much as I should, but I've learned a fair amount. I'm also hoping to be stationed in Japan.

The person I'm pictured with is the bassist of the Japanese band Matenrou Opera. I met him last June at AnimeNEXT, which was my first convention of that sort. It was an amazing experience for me.

I hope that I can contribute as much as possible to all of this. Besides, it's all in the name of science!