Name: Lucas Pickett
Year: 2014
Majors: Hispanic Studies and Linguistics
Hometown: Blacksburg, Virginia
Greatest Accomplishment: Starting and directing a book drive project at my high school that provided a Filipino orphanage with a library.
Activities Around Campus: Alpha Phi Omega, Metal Club, Middle Eastern Student Association, hitting up the bars on karaoke nights.
Talent: I can read in the Cyrillic alphabet and can recognize several different writing systems just by taking a glance at them. I also make really entertaining karaoke performances.
DC or Marvel: I don’t really follow either superhero universe very closely. I’m a big fan of Batman, but don’t pay much attention to Superman or the Flash or the rest of the Justice League. I guess overall I’m a Marvel guy, but Batman by himself trumps all else.
Superpower: I’d really like the ability to fly, or super agility or super speed. An inability to get tired would be excellent, as well, since I would have so much extra time to do things without having to eat or sleep!
Perfect Valentine’s Day Date: Dinner at the Saigon Pearl, a movie at the Kimball, and a nice stroll through Colonial Williamsburg seems pretty good to me.
What I Look for in a Girl: Compassion, a great sense of humor, inquisitiveness, a great smile and laugh, acceptance for long hair on dudes, and a love of heavy metal music. Okay, the last one is nice but not mandatory…still, bonus points if you do.
Something Annoying That Girls Say: Any stereotypical Valley Girl speech gets under my skin rather quickly.