Elevator Speech

Hi! My name is Glen Robert Hardbeck Bradley, but most people just call me Glen. Glen is my great-grandpa's name. Robert is my Grandpa on my Dad's side. Hardbeck is my Mom's maiden name that I carry as the last generation of the Hardbeck family since my Mom doesn't have any brothers or cousins to carry on the Hardbeck name. Along with my two parents, I have a little sister named Siobhan who is currently in seventh grade. I also have two kittens (Gimli and Jazzy) and a golden retriever (Clancy). I am from Kansas City, Missouri and am an alum of Visitation Grade School and Rockhurst High School.

I have been active in Scouting since kindergarten through senior year of high school and earned my Eagle in my freshmen year of high school. For my service project I lead the construction of an eight by sixty foot board walk for my city zoo (as well as getting donations for materials form a local companies).  I also earned my black belt in Chung Do Kwan Tae Kwon Do (a Korean form of martial arts) during my freshmen year and continue my training through college.

I chose Santa Clara University because I wanted to continue my Jesuit education while moving out West into the beautiful state of California. I say beautiful because I have never been in a state with such a diverse geography (the thick forests of sequoias, towering peaks of Yosemite, drastic cliffs on the shoreline...). I love to spend all the time I can spare outside and was thrilled to hear about Into the Wild while I was applying to SCU. In the past quarter I have been involved in as many ITW trips as I could fit in. I am an avid photographer and look forward to taking dslr photography classes in the coming quarters as well as becoming active in the recently formed photography club. (Check out my website to see some of my photos: http://500px.com/photoglen) I also enjoy cooking and plan on starting a cooking group in my RLC, Graham, followed by a campus wide cooking club, should there be enough interest.

I am currently an undeclared business major, and I tentatively plan on double majoring in marketing and English to pursue a career as a publisher and editor for fantasy and sci-fi books targeted at pre-teen, teen, and young adult audiences. That being said, I am a HUGE fan of The Lord of the Rings series and The Hobbit. What do I think of the movies? As movies, I love them! As movies based off of books, Peter Jackson did a good job of sticking true to the books, but I am still irked by the complete absence of Tom Bombadil and Fatty Bolger (the hobbit that stayed behind).