PlaceofDis: Thanks. It's hard to believe that I've been sporting the beard for over four years now.
There's kind of a funny story...
At the house where I used to live, we had an annual celebration on 5 May called "Cinco de Moustache". Everybody would start growing a beard or moustache on 1 April, and then on 5 May we shaved off the beards and left just the moustaches, and had a party which mostly consisted of making fun of the guys who didn't grow moustaches and watching Tom Selleck movies.
I look baby-faced when I shave, but I knew that I could grow a beard because I also had one in high school. When I voiced my desire to participate, a bunch of the guys didn't believe that I could possibly grow facial hair. So I offered them a two-week head start. By the time I had been growing it out for one week, I had already surpassed everybody else's facial hair, in spite of their head start. In the end, only my roommate could top my beard, but you'd understand if you ever saw his beard.
It ws one of my prouder moments as an undergrad.