Joe Pick

Assistant Director of Admissions

Territory: Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio

Contact Information

Email: JoePick@creighton.edu

IM: joe2cr8on (AIM & Yahoo)
joe2cr8on@hotmail.com (MSN)

Phone: (800) 282-5835

“Growing up in Iowa gave me some great perspectives on college. Use me as a resource, and I will show you not only how you could fit in here, but why you'll be successful. We select students who are Creighton material before they even know it."

Personal Information

Hometown: Remsen, Iowa

High School: Remsen-Union

College: B.A. Buena Vista University, M.A. University of South Dakota

Major: B.A. Communications & Graphic Design, M.A. Adult & Higher Education

Activities during college: Football, University Cable Network, campus newspaper

Hobbies: Taking little adventures with my wife, kids. and our great dane. Volunteering as a football coach, watching a ridiculous amount of movies - and playing with my new iPod Touch I just won this summer!

Favorites:

Teams: Chicago Bears, Hawkeye and Notre Dame football, but pretty much a fan of any college athletics

Book: Watchmen, The Dangerous Book for Boys, The World is Flat

Movie: it's hard to pick a favorite, but I've seen a lot so I usually start my list off with specifying by genre....anywhere from The Dark Knight, Star Wars, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings, Slumdog Millionaire...

Starting football

Are you ready for some football?

Tonight starts summer camp at Millard South, so tonight for us, as well as many other schools, we are gearing up for the start of the 2010 football season! Unbelievable if you ask me, just seems like yesterday we were walking off the field in Lincoln with a trophy, and now we are walking back on the field to start i...

Summer summer summer time....

Enjoying your summer....or are you saying "What Summer?" like the rest of us? We are busy in our office meeting with many newly crowned seniors and assiting our incoming freshmen in class registration and finding their advisors (here, we call them perceptors - love the Latin around here!). What are you busy with? I also coach football at Millard South, ...

Nothing but Time

Joe Pick 168 - 60 = 108. That's the magic number!

So now that there are only a few days left before the deadline, I want to shift focus for a moment to look at the new life of a College Student. I get a lot of questions about how to manage time, work in a work schedule, and just in general what to do since classes aren't 8-3:30 anymore. So here's a little math p...

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