A date with your editor: Tula Batanchiev

I tell everyone that I'm the luckiest man on earth, because I get to sit next to Tula Batanchiev, A&S '09, every Sunday. This New Yorker is the editor of one of the most popular sections of The Heights, Features, and her cubicle borders Arts's. Why I claim her as among my best friends, I don't know. She's a math minor after all, which means she's not sane. But, as her name suggests, Tula is loyal to the T. And she's brilliant, which makes her sexiness transcend her natural beauty. She's not only graduating a semester early, she's traveling to California next week to present her thesis to the NCA Conference.

1. If you could be any TV character, who would you be and why? Steve from Blues Clues. My life would be so much simpler. Why does he get all the easy problems to solve?

2. I think the funniest person alive is ... Maddy Rodriguez.

3. MLK: Martin Luther King, Jr. or Michelle Laura Kaczmarek?

Hmm … she is my assistant, so I'll go with Michelle.

4. My decade is... The '80s. Love big hair =)

5. My idea of the perfect date is ... A comfy date. Sweats, a good movie, and some home-cooked goodness.

6. The song that is the anthem of my life is ... Carrie Underwood's "Lessons Learned."

7. I think the defining pop culture moment of my lifetime was … Seeing Ben Affleck and Jen Garner at the table next to me at brunch with my boyfriend and his parents.

8. Where I hope to be in the next 10 years … In New York surrounded by people who love me and doing something that makes me smile every morning, regardless of what it ends up being.

9. Why am I a Heights editor? The better question is … Why wouldn't I be one? It's the most satisfying job in the world to publish a newspaper that means something.