There goes my manhood

So for the last week and a half I've been trying to grow a beard. My family is cursed with an incredible inability to grow facial hair. My brother grew a beard once in college. With college coming to an end for me, I feel like now is the time to try. Well I got a lot of comments on it - some good some bad. The best news was the Laura really liked it. I thought I was making good progress, but then I got another interview with PSU Police. So I decided to end the experiment in the name of looking professional for the interview. Here's the final progress before it was shaved.
I'm really not sure why my face looks so swollen, but the beard is pretty pathetic huh? That was 9 days progress. At that rate it would have taken 3 months to have anything that looked remotely good. Way to go, male Tilden genes... Thanks...