Larry Pickett is a first-year student in the Rehabilitation Counseling Program.                     

Where is your hometown? Muncie, IN

Where did you obtain your bachelor’s, and what were your major(s)? Ball State University, 1992 – Exercise Science and Ellis University, 2011 in Psychology

What first interested you in psychology? During a critical thinking seminar while in the US Army in 2009.

Why did you choose Ball State? Location and being close to family

What’s the best part of being a student at Ball State? Smaller class sizes and more interaction with fellow students

What are your future and career goals? Graduate in the summer of 2026 and for the VA. I want to give back to those who have served like myself.

What is your favorite campus tradition or event? My wife and I loved last year’s 5K run/walk during homecoming.

If you could have any superpower for one day, what would it be and how would you use it? Time travel to see historical events as they occurred.

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why? Currently, that would be Japan to see my wife’s son who has been living there for the last eight years.

What is something about you that people would be surprised to know? (just as a reminder, this will be shared with faculty and staff, students, and alumni ) I taught for two semesters in the health science department in 1994 after completing my first master’s in Health Science; I joined the US Army at 33 years of age, retiring with 21 and a half years of total service.

If you could switch lives with any historic figure for a day, who would it be and why? Anyone who was part of the United States’ founding fathers and played a part in the development of this country; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. I think of these it would be Benjamin Franklin.