If you're going to shave your beard (don't! neckbeards are a testament to one's geekiness), you need to make it into a handlebar moustache. Those look so cool.
(1) Pure Mathematics
(2) Statistics and Operation Research
(3) Theoretical Informatics and Systems and Control Theory
I took the third, mostly because I far prefer it from the other two but also because there's a cute lady that currently works on her PhD there... The supervising professor has her teach in his place sometimes (though this is illegal) as part of her training, that's how I got to meet her. Maybe I'll tell you a couple of stories about her sometime... :P
if we're talking love stories. I just got a date with some one whose been my best friend for years, and yes I know the whole don't date best friends thing...we were lovers first. then friends and now maybe lovers again :D