Just in case you didn't know.... I'm 27 years old, working on a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences. I worked at a pharmaceutical company doing research and development for five years. I have a masters in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins and a bachelors in chemistry from North Carolina State University.

The university I attend now, King's College in London, is amazing. The work done here is outstanding and practical. I feel so lucky.

My PhD is in skin drug delivery, meaning, one day instead of having to take a pill to get rid of your headache, you'd just rub some lotion on your skin. It's a really tough area and I know nothing about it, but I'm having a lot of fun learning.

I decided to come to London to learn more about pharmacy, to get the hell out of dodge, and to satisfy my massive anglophile queries. I thought, "I don't have kids or a husband, or even a boyfriend for that matter, and yet I have a asshole of a boss. I gotta get out of here.... Where am I going to go?" Simple as that.

Strange Thing #28: It's not "How are you?" when greeting someone, it's "You alright?"

And this is subtle, but I probably wouldn't say "you alright?" to someone unless I heard something horrible had happened to them beforehand. As in, "Oh my God, you were in a car accident. Are you alright?" So I sometimes get a bit flustered if I'm not thinking staight and someone sees me and says that. I'm like, "Yea, I'm fine. Why, what have you heard?"