Brad Ream

2006-04-25T21:05:00.000-07:00

Okay so in every class we have to fill out these evaluations. They are so stupid. The professors don’t even look at them, so they don’t learn from these evaluations. I mean I know it waste class time but still come on. Our Calc Professor told us today that he has to go back to his home country, Columbia. He said that the University screwed up and now he has to be out of the country by midnight on May 5th. We all just started laughing but he was kind of upset about it.
In Physics we have had test exams and a quiz in 4 classes. WHAT THE FUCK? Why would a professor do that to someone? How is some one supposed to learn all the information for an exam in two classes? He is definitely the worst professor at the University. Every one in the class is getting about a 60% right now. So you cant just say it’s a few people. He just pisses me off.

2006-04-25T21:04:00.000-07:00

Well it’s about the end of the year and I have two more blogs to write. It has been an amazing school year. It has gone by so fast. I can’t believe my freshman year of college is pretty much over. I haven’t gotten the grades I would have liked to get, but I guess that is just the way it goes. This semester I am doing a lot better with my grades. The first semester hurt me because I worked at UPS. I had to work from 11-3 in the morning then wake up for class at 10. I just couldn’t do it. This semester Physics has just kicked my ass. It doesn’t matter what I do in that class I just don’t get it. I have built a stronger immune system for more beer. I have had a few bad times and most of them came at the beginning of the year. I am going to miss all the ladies I made friends with. I’ll also miss the guys, but mostly the girls. I can’t wait until next year when I have a house with five other guys. It is going to be awesome, cookouts all the time, beer pong, corn hole, and much more. We get our house at the beginning of June and we will come up a couple of times during the summer to party, even though there won’t be any furniture in the house. This summer I am going to be working at Alexander and Bebout, a construction company back in Van Wert. One of my best friends from high school is also going to be working their, hopefully we get to work together this summer. Last summer we didn’t get to work together at all. I am getting paid a whole dollar more this summer than last summer. I am excited I will work around 45 hours a week. That brings in a pretty good check for the week. I have to save the money though to help bay for college.

2006-04-19T20:05:00.000-07:00

Yeah so I realized I forgot to talk about my trip to Windsor. Man this was the best trip I’ve been on for a while. We started out we left at 7:30, because the girls didn’t get to Toledo until then. We got to Windsor around 8:30 and went right to the Casino and exchanged our money. We then went and searched for the liquor store. When we found it, it was like heaven. I bought a bottle of vodka for us three guys and we also got a 6 pack of Coors Light to chase our shots. Man we got to our room at the hotel at 9:30 and started drinking right away. We were drunk by 10 and left the hotel. The two guys I went with were almost in trouble before we got out of the hotel lobby. We started heading towards the clubs and it was freezing. We ran into a guy that takes people to the clubs and then you get into all the clubs for free. The first club we went to was terrible. It was empty. One of the guys bought a round. It was pretty cool. We left that place after we drank our beers and then went to the next club. It was awesome. That was obviously the place to be. It was packed. We were dancing and kept buying drinks, it was really cool to be able to buy your own beer. Then the rest of the night is a blur until were in the casino and leaving. We got a ride from a van cab, and went back to the hotel and crashed. Then in the morning one of the girls woke everyone up at 7 and we went swimming, I was still drunk when I woke up. It took me until 7 on Saturday night to get back to normal. Needless to say I just laid Saturday night.

2006-04-19T20:02:00.000-07:00

Hey so I forgot to do these blogs last week. I don’t know what im going to do now. I’ll start out by talking about last week. Last week I was on an intramural softball team we played on Tuesday. We played at 10 at night. I was the pitcher for the team. There were a lot of stupid rules, like to score we had to hit a mat behind home plate instead of hitting the plate, if you hit the plate your out. As a pitcher I couldn’t put any spin on the ball. Our first game we came out doing well. We got them out one two three, then we scored a couple in the first. Then we just traded runs for a few innings then about the 4th or 5th they started hitting base hit after base hit and we couldn’t stop them. We ended up getting down like 10-5. We would get a couple runs back but then they got some more. We ended up losing 15-8. We had to play right after that at 11. This game we didn’t hit the ball very well. When I was pitching they were hitting right it at us, so it was easy to field. We ended up winning that game 6-2. We then played on Thursday night at 11. We played a pretty bad team, but half our guys went home Thursday for Easter so we had to pick up some guys. The guys we picked up were pretty bad. I would have to say that was the huge difference in the game. We lost 6-5, we had them in the bottom of the 6th and they got some hits and went ahead by two. We just couldn’t get the runs we needed. We are now out of the tournament. I am kind of happy because now we don’t have to worry about wasting a Thursday night out playing softball and I can be drinking.

2006-04-06T20:41:00.000-07:00

This coming weekend is the most exciting weekend for me. I am heading to Windsor! I have been 19 for 4 months now and have not got an opportunity to go. I am going with two guys from Toledo and then three girls from Napolean. We booked our hotel room tonight. It is at a Hilton Hotel, so it better be good. We are leaving Toledo at around 7, so we should get to Windsor around eight. Everyone wants to go swimming when we get up there, but I just want to go get drunk right away. I am looking forward to being able to buy my own beer. I plan on going to the casino just for like 10 minutes and then hit up the bars and clubs. It is going to be a kick ass time. Then on Saturday, it’s Alvin Fest. I can’t wait it is going to be awesome. I just hope there is not cops every where.

2006-04-06T20:33:00.000-07:00

Well this past weekend I went to napoleon, OH. It is about 40 minutes south of here on 24. We left Carter at about 4 and got to Napolean at about 5, traffic slowed us down. We stopped by the party and dropped off some beer. Then I went to a kids house that was like 15 minutes from the party. We didn’t do much we just hung out. Then we went back to the party and started getting everything around. When we got back to the house the rest of the beer was being dropped off, six cases. Then we went to Napolean and picked some items up at Wal-Mart, Dixie cups, ICE, and ping pong balls. We then ordered pizza. We put the ice and beer in the bath tub on the first floor. It was a genius idea to put it there. Otherwise we would have had to have like 6 coolers. We started drinking at 7:30. We started playing beer pong at around 8. There was only 8 people there. So the first night we killed three cases. On Saturday, we went to Defiance and was going to watch Ice Age 2 but got there to late. We went back to Aaron’s house and played Fight Night for a while. Then we went back to Napolean and watched Harry Potter. We again started drinking at 7:30, I put down three and then decided to start up beer pong. When we started there was only six people drinking. Then at about 9:30 some more people showed up and it was awesome. I don’t remember the second half of the night. I was so drunk. When I woke up on Sunday, a kid told me that I went to bed with a girl. I was like WHAT? If I did something I didn’t know I was doing it.

2006-03-31T12:06:00.000-08:00

So the Final Four is set, you got George Mason, Florida, LSU, and UCLA. I think the two strongest teams coming into it now are Florida and LSU. They both have the height factor and good guard play. I think Big Baby Davis for LSU is a stud and has lead there team to the final four. George Mason is also playing well right now. This is only the second time a number eleven seed has made it to the Final Four and the other team to do it was LSU. Ironic I think so. I hope George Mason wins it all that way they start to think more about what teams get in to the tournament as an at large bid. This weekend I am going to be heading to Napolean to party with a friend on my floor. His parents are going to be gone, so we are having like 20 people out to his house. We are getting six cases for tonight I don’t know how many were getting for tomorrow night, probably depends how much we have left. I am really looking forward to these parties. Hopefully there will be hot girls. Supposedly this kid invited some girls from Napolean so hopefully they are hot.

2006-03-31T12:04:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, it’s Wednesday night and I am really bored. This past weekend was a good weekend. I went to Tyler Schroeder’s room and drank on Saturday night. We got 3 cases and finished two of them between 5 of us. We had to walk to Taco Bell. It was a really long walk in the cold weather. On Sunday I got a case of Coors Light longnecks and drank those during the football game.
I forgot to mention on Friday and Saturday I had to attend alcohol classes in BG. I had to attend ten hours. On Friday we watched “When a Man Loves a Woman”, its about a woman that becomes an alcoholic and has to go to an institution and get help. It was an extremely dumb movie. On Saturday we had little pamphlets that we went through. I actually learned quite a bit from the classes. I learned that you can get cancer in your mouth from drinking beer. I was not aware of that.
Yesterday I went to the rec. with 4 other guys to play basketball. We started out playing and the team we were against hit there first 6 shots with us in there face. So needless to say we lost that game by like 4. Then we went to the next court and played. We won four or five games in a row. We were hot. We couldn’t be stopped. Then we played these really good, athletic, black guys, and some how we stayed with them. We only lost by one.

2006-03-24T13:13:00.000-08:00

Yeah so I was up in my bed getting ready to watch the Lord of the Ring: The Two Towers and I realized I needed to right one of these. Talking about movies got me in the mood to watch them. I watched the first one, The Fellowship of the Ring, I love these movies. This week has not been anything to exciting. I did get drunk on Wednesday night at Ottawa, which was the first time I got drunk during the week. I was feeling in it Calc the next day I only got four hours of sleep that night. Then last night, Thursday night, I got drunk in Carter. We had a case between three of us. We played drinking games like drunk driver and connections it was a good time. I am becoming a big fan of drunk driver it is a fun and quick way to get drunk. I don’t know what I am going to do this weekend because everyone on my floor and the floor above me went home. I don’t plan on going home until Easter weekend. I don’t like to go home that often because there is nothing to do at home. Even if all my friends go home I don’t like to go home.

2006-03-24T09:25:00.000-08:00

This past weekend was St. Patty’s weekend. It started out that me and a bunch of guys were just going to get a bunch of cases to watch the basketball games. We could only get two cases for Friday night. So like ten of us took the two cases and pre-gamed in Carter East in about an hour and a half. It was about 10:30 by this time and we decided to go back behind engineering. I had heard of a couple parties and the other people had heard about a couple parties, so we were set for the night. We got back there and ran into some people from my high school so we went to there parties and it seemed like a huge Putnam county party. Then of course we had to make a Taco Bell run and it was amazing.
On Saturday night I was just sitting around on the fourth floor not planning on doing anything that night, but then I got a call telling me to go to Greek village and drink. So I took a friend with me, my drinking buddy everyone needs one, and we got a case between the two of us. It was fun. We played a lot of drinking games. I lost track of time and when we went to Taco Bell that night there was no one in there. I just kept wondering why there was no one there, and then I figured out that it was because it was like 3:30 in the morning. It was a good weekend, probably the best weekend I’ve had for a long time, just because I got drunk both nights.

2006-03-14T20:07:00.000-08:00

Well the brackets are out for the NCAA tournament. I feel they some poor rankings and then some good rankings. I am not really sure about UCLA being a number two seed. No one has said anything about them this year. I am very happy with Ohio State getting a number two seed. I think if they could have beat Iowa in the Big Ten tournament they might have got a number one seed over Memphis. I think North Carolina is looking very good right now, Hansborough is a stud, and he’s only a freshman. Kansas is also another team that is looking strong for as young as they are. They’ve only lost one game in the past two months that is impressive. I think the key for Ohio State making it far is Dials staying in the game and not sitting on the bench; Je’Kel Foster getting his stroke going. He has been playing like shit here lately. If J.J. Sullinger can keep going with the boards and making big shots he will be a huge factor, no one can jump like he can.

2006-03-14T20:04:00.000-08:00

Well how about spring break. I mean that was probably the best spring break I’ve ever had. NO I’m just kidding. I just went home. The first Friday night I came home and got my hair cut and then went to my high school’s sectional final game. We beat Wayne Trace, one of our arch rivals, 40-35. We went on a 12-0 run to finish the game. It was a really good game. It was the second time we have gotten out of sectionals since 1996. Then on Saturday I didn’t do much just hung out with my friends. On Tuesday night me and six other friends went to my high school at like 10 and played basketball it was a lot of fun. I also had to get my community service done for my underage. I worked three hours on Thursday and two hours on Friday. It was so boring. At one point all they had me doing was dusting off shelves and racks. It was really stupid. My high school played on Thursday because they won the Friday before. We played St. Henry; they start a 6’9” and 6’7” kid. Our tallest kid stood at 6’5”. We played really well with them at half the score was only 13-9. We had them in the fourth quarter but we just couldn’t finish the game. We lost 29-26. I went and got right back in line with Tyler, Chris, and Riep to watch the OG versus Spencerville. That was another really good game. Spencerville got up by 14 at one point in the first half, but OG slowly climbed there way back into the game. I feel the turning point in the game was when a kid from OG whom is coming to Toledo next year for football, dunked it off a rebound. The whole crowd erupted.
I also went to OG on Friday and got drunk with those guys. It was a good time. We played a little bit of beer pong.

2006-02-28T17:13:00.000-08:00

Well as everyone knows next week is spring break; some people will be going to Florida, California, etc. Not me though, I’m just heading home. There is going to be nothing for me to do at home. The only thing I have to do is finish my community service for my underage. I have about five and half hours left. I got my other seven and half hours done one weekend when I went home. I worked at goodwill that is the most boring job I’ve ever done. I had to separate house supplies and bag up clothes to be sent to the Lima goodwill. I did all that before lunch. When I got back from lunch they had me go out front and color code all the clothes. I had to start with white, bage, then yellow, orange, and end with black. I did that for about four hours, I got so bored. I might just work like 2 hours a day and then my last day work one hour, that way I don’t feel like I’m there all day. I also want to rearrange my room at home. That is how exciting my break is going to be. Man I can’t wait. I also can’t wait to see all my friends from high school. I haven’t seen them since Christmas break. I am also going to go watch our basketball team in tourney hopefully we can make it to districts. We have only gotten out of sectionals once in the back 10 years. The one time we did get out we went and got state runners-up it was awesome. I was on the JV team that year, it was fun.

2006-02-28T16:58:00.000-08:00

Well I don’t know how many of you read my blog from last week, when I talked about the REC after hours. Well to sum it up I was on a team of three posts versus a team of three guards and we lost. Well we wanted a rematch because we know we can beat them, but one of the guys didn’t want to rematch. We had to beg him to play. We finally got him to play on Monday; we got our rematch we wanted. We went over there got playing I had a kid that is 5’5” guarding me, and I’m 6’5”. I had them keep feeding me the ball in the post, and I was hitting my shots when I was posting up. One of the guys on there team was on fire again. We couldn’t stop him, no matter what we did. We were up 14-9; we were playing to 15. We ended up losing 15-14. We couldn’t get anything to fall. We were playing best of three so we had another shot to beat them. We played again, they got up 3-1 then we came back and tied it at 4. It was pretty even for a while. Then they got back up by like 2 or 3. We couldn’t come back from that. We have accepted that they are better than us even though I feel we still could have beaten them. Maybe we will get another shot at them some time.

2006-02-23T21:14:00.000-08:00

Well this is my hum dinger blog, I don’t think its going to be that great. I didn’t really have anything going on during the week. Last night I went to the Rec, they were having an after hours prize and game thingy. Six guys and I went over and had two three on three teams. The two guys I was with were all taller than 6’1”. We thought we would do pretty well. We started out by playing a team of all black guards. They are usually pretty good, but they couldn’t get anything to fall. We ended up beating them by 7 or 8. We went and had to play the other three guys we came over with. They were all less than 6’, and we went into the game all cocky because we knew we could beat them. We started out getting up 3-1, but then all of a sudden they hit 2 or 3 threes which are worth two and twos are worth one. So by then we were down like 7-3, and by that time we couldn’t catch up. They just kept hitting all of there threes and we couldn’t get anything to fall. We ended up losing by like 7 or 8. It was not good, so now when ever we see these guys they have to rub it in, because they won the whole tournament. We are going to have a rematch sometime within the next week. We are going to school them then.

2006-02-23T13:12:00.000-08:00

Well in this blog I am going to talk about my weekend. On Friday I went to BG to visit with one of my friends from high school. I haven’t seen him since new years probably. We went to a BG hockey game against Notre Dame. It was pretty cool. They got beat 6-4. There were a couple good fights, but nothing to special. We went back to his dorm after the game and just sat around and waited on a guy to buy us our beer. Then we walked to Wendy’s and ate, just before they closed, it was good.
My friend is in a frat, so they have DD every weekend so we just had to call him to take us to the party. We got there and there was only like 7 people there. We played “Drinking Jenga” it was awesome. They took regular jenga pieces and wrote on the back, and every one you pulled out said something and you had to do it. One was bong, some others were drink 1 drink, drink 3 drinks. Another one was question, where you have to look at some and ask a question, and then they have to look at someone else and ask a question, it goes on until some one doesn’t ask a question. Then they have to drink once. It was a really fun game. Once we were drunk we called the DD and he came and picked us up and took us back to my friend’s dorm room. It was a really good time. It was good to see one of my best friends again.
On Saturday I was so tired of drinking for the weekend, after drinking on both Thursday and Friday. I didn’t want to drink on Saturday. So I just watched movies all Saturday night. I watched Eurotrip first, then popped in Wedding Crashers and fell asleep when they got to the house on the island. That was at like 10:30 or 11, I woke up at 4:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep until 6. Then I slept until 10:30. It was a productive night, I got caught up on my sleep. Stayed tuned for my next blog, it will be a real hum dinger.

2006-02-17T11:28:00.000-08:00

In this blog, I am going to talk about The Ohio State Buckeyes. First with the football team, they had a pretty good year. It could have been better if Tressel would have started Smith over Zwick against Texas. I think the buckeyes would have had a better shot. I mean don’t get me wrong Texas was a good football team. I just think Ohio State could have beaten them. Next year I think the offense is going to be flying high. The defense could be a little shaky. I honestly don’t know what to think. With them losing 9 of the 11 starters on defense it is going to be interesting.
Now onto the basketball team, they are have a marvelous year. I think Thad Matta is god when it comes to coaching. I mean look at O’Brien he had a couple good years and then they were just bad, but Matta came in and took O’Brien’s players and had a 20 win season and it looks like there going to get that again this year. If they can hit there outside shots then they will win every game, but when they can’t buy a three they will lose. I mean take the game on Wednesday for instance, they shot like 20% from behind three point range and the two games before that they shot over 60%. Needless to say they lost on Wednesday and won the two games before that. Then once they hit the outside game that opens up the inside game for Dials to dominate. He can only do so much for the team.

2006-02-17T11:18:00.000-08:00

What’s up everyone? I am officially done with working at UPS; if feels so good to not have to worry about going into work. Now ill have more time for “studying”. Who knows if I will do that though? The only down fall to not working, is not getting any money. I was supposed to go into work last night and tonight, but I’m not going to. I’m just going to not show up.
I really don’t know what to talk about now and I still have to do another one of these. Last night (Thursday) I went over to UHills to one of my friends from high school’s birthday party. It was a good party. I knew a lot more people than what I thought I would. There were a lot of people that are in my physics class. I didn’t even know they knew my friend. Then right before I left the party I took like 5 or 6 Jaeger bombs. I started feeling that like 10 minutes after I left. Then we went to Taco Bell but they were packed. We decided to go to Arby’s because there drive-thru was still open, but our DD left when we went to taco bell. He started walking back. So I had to drive over to Arby’s and then back to the dorm. Let’s just say I don’t know how I got from Arby’s back to my dorm. It is just a huge blur! So we got really lucky that night. Arby’s hit the spot though it was so nice. I had to skip my Calc two class today because my head hurt so bad.

2006-02-10T08:11:00.000-08:00

Well I am going to start out by saying that finding a house is really hard work. Five guys and I were going to move into this house on Evansdale, but then one of our moms did some research on the landlord and found out he has served some time in jail and has paid thousands of dollars in fines. The reason is because you can only put 3 people in a house in the city of Toledo, and he puts 6 in there even though it is illegal. We decided we didn’t want to have a criminal for a landlord, and take the chance of 3 people getting kicked out on the street because we are breaking the law.
We went to the student union and picked up a directory of landlords and houses for behind engineering. Then we went and looked at some of the houses and the houses we liked we called the landlord. We had a walk through of the house and we all really liked the house. The Pi Kappa Phi’s live in it right now, so that is a little weird moving in after a frat, but we just want a house. So we called the guy after we talked about it, and he said if we can get at least $500 to him by that night. We would have the house. So we ran to every bank possible and withdrew money to get the house. So needless to say, we have a house. It is awesome. The house shares a backyard with the house next door. I am sure some of you might know where this house is at from parties. The house next door has four girls in it. So that will be awesome.

2006-02-07T18:03:00.000-08:00

2006-01-31T15:40:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, so yesterday I went to the rec and lifted and played basketball. The place was really empty on a Sunday around 4. There was no one there to lift or even play basketball. Usually there is like two or three games backed up to play basketball but we had a tough time getting two let a lone three games played.
I went to the rec again today and it was busy like usual. I went and played with 4 guys from carter. We were pretty good. We won two games in a row and then the third game we lost. I left before the third game, but I don’t think that was the reason we lost. I think it was because they ran out of steam.
I went into work today and I got sent home 7 minutes into work. It was really nice so I could get this done.

2006-01-30T13:21:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, well this past weekend was a good weekend. It started Thursday night when I went into work and I was allowed to go home. So I called this girl that I was going on a date with on Saturday and she came over and we watched Boondock Saints which is a really good movie. Well we just layed in my bed for about 2 hours just trying to get to know each other. Then on Friday we went to Arbys and then I had to work so nothing happened that night.
Saturday night came finally, I picked her up around 6 and we went to Red Robin. She had never eaten there before. She really liked it. Then after that we came back to my room again and watched the Notebook and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I have got to be honest they are both good movies. Oh yeah I forgot in between the movies we went to a party back behind engineering. It was full of Putnam county people so I new some of them but she new most of them. We were there for only like 20 minutes, and the cops came and asked everyone to get inside, there were people out in the yard because it was so nice this weekend. I got kind of scared because I already have an underage so if I get caught again I am screwed so I was just hoping I didn’t get caught. The man up stairs was looking out for me that night because the cops just said get inside and keep the noise down. Then we fell a sleep in my room and then around 1:30 the fire alarm went off I was so pissed because I was sleeping like a baby. When we went outside for the alarm we sat in my car and I just decided to take her back to her dorm. So that was my night, it was a good night though. I think I am starting to like her. We hung out on Sunday too.

2006-01-27T08:24:00.000-08:00

Well on Wednesday I found out in class that pop tarts are the worst thing to ever eat. I don’t know how true that really is. This is not going to stop me from eating my brown sugar and cinnamon pop-tarts! So does that mean nutri-grain bars are bad for you? I mean they have the same fruit filling; the only thing they don’t have is the icing! This just bewilders me.

2006-01-25T12:13:00.000-08:00

Today in my blog I am going to write about my night at work. I got there and I really didn’t want to be there in the first place. Oh by the way I work at UPS. I load packages into the semi-trailers. I was in a trailer that handles packages that go anywhere across the Mississippi river. It started out I logged into the trailer and started scanning packages and within five minutes my supervisor came in and looked at our scanners and we were logged into the wrong trailer so we had to go get new scanners and rescan the other packages. By this time we were getting backed out, but we had to just keep going. Then we had another trailer come so I went in there and that was already backed out. So I had to get a power loader, which is just a person who loads the packages while I scan the packages. The person who was power loading for me was so slow. I just kept getting more and more backed out. Then about a half hour or so after another person came in and helped me get caught up. So I was doing well; I wasn’t backed out or anything. The trailer next door was stilling working on getting full while I was in my trailer. When it did get full they have to change it with another trailer and that took forever. They didn’t give us a new trailer there until I had the other trailer full. That was about the time we were starting to get a heavy flow again. I was in the trailer by myself until I was almost done with the trailer and a guy came in asking if I loaded a bad bag. Supposedly I did, so he had to climb on like three walls that were stacked to the ceiling and find it. It took him like 5 minutes to find it. So by that time I was already backed out again. My supervisor kept giving me glares the whole night after that. Once I was able to leave work I had to go talk to the manager of my area and she reminded me to check every package. When I came back to my dorm room I was so pooped I just layed in my bed and passed out.

2006-01-17T21:50:00.000-08:00

My blog this time is going to be about random stuff so try to stay with me. My classes are pretty tough this semester a lot harder than last semester, and I didn’t do to well last semester. I guess I am going to just have to work harder. I have to get my GPA above a 3.0 I have never had below a 3.0 until I got to college. I have never really had to work at my academics so when I got to college I thought it was going to be the same, but it wasn’t and now I know that.
Another thing about college is that I had never been around weed before until I got to college. This was a whole new experience in itself. I remember sitting in my room with some of my new friends and this terrible smell came into the window and I had no idea what is was. The other guys were like man someone’s smoking weed and I was like so that is what weed smells like. I found out one of my friends went to Ohio State’s main campus and he does weed every once in a while. I was so disappointed in him. Then during Christmas break he pulled some out at home and wanted me to try some, but I couldn’t do it. I always told myself I would never smoke that. This same friend got me smoking cigarettes when I drink. Then after break I realized I shouldn’t be smoking so I stopped that habit.

2006-01-13T08:48:00.000-08:00

My best party experience at college would have to be the 2nd weekend of college. It was a Saturday night and I was walking around looking for something to do. Everyone I talked to was heading to Towne Houses. A kid on my floor and I drove over to there and when we got their, there was like tons of big groups walking up. That got me excited to party. There were 18 kegs between all the apartments; I was in the house for about an hour. That was when they started kicking people out into the back yard. When I stepped out back there were at least 300 people back there. It was insane! I kept running into people I knew from back home, it was really cool to see. We were there for about 2 hours in the back and by that time the number had increased to around 500. The cops were showing up trying to break up the party but when they shined there light from the van everyone just started screaming, it was awesome. Then all of a sudden these two guys started dancing around each other and then the smaller guy hit the other kid twice and the big kid was knocked out. That was when we decided we needed to leave! That was when I knew college was going to be awesome.

2006-01-11T12:25:00.000-08:00

Hi my name is Brad Ream. I live in Carter East. I am from Van Wert Ohio, and I went to Convoy Crestview. There are three different Crestview’s in Ohio I went to the one closes to the Indiana state line. I played football, basketball, and track in high school. I had two shoulder surgeries in high school due to playing football. I had to sit out my freshman and junior year in both football and basketball.
I showed steers from third grade all the way until my senior year. I was involved in FFA my whole high school career. I competed in Parliamentary Procedure, soil judging, speaking contests, Greenhand quiz, Farm Business Management, and Ag. Engineering (twice). We finished 5th in the state for the Greenhand quiz, 1st in the Farm Business Management quiz, and 1st and 2nd in the Ag. Engineering. I went to the National FFA convention my junior year for the Farm Business Management. We finished 11th in the Nation.
I came to the University of Toledo because I heard they had an engineering major for construction and I couldn’t find one any where else. I talked to my construction teacher in high school and she told me how much more I would learn at Toledo than just going to BG. I like Toledo the school but I am not very fond of the town of Toledo. I have heard that the city of Toledo is one of the worst cities to live in. I have thought about transferring to some other school with construction but I doubt that I will. I am hoping to only live in Toledo these four years then move some where else and have a great career.