Earlier this week I realized that TheCollegeMan has been up for close to a year now. My, how time flies.

We’ve experienced some wild success at TCM, from developing those two different cures for cancer, winning a couple of Nobel prizes in literature (in one year), becoming world renown paleontology experts, and being crowned the undisputed UFC flyweight, lightweight, and heavyweight division champions, we at TheCollegeMan are pretty proud of ourselves. However, as one of the founding fathers of this great publication, I would like to take some time to thank those of you out there who made TCM possible. We know we kick ass, but we also know that our ass kicking is the product of more than our own amazingness. Some of your own less-than-ours-but-still-there amazingness played a big role in our rise to dominance in every major field of life. This is our way of thanking all of the TCM brothers (and sisters) out there. You know who you are.

But if you don’t, here are a few anecdotes that stick out in my mind. Feel free to add on below.

1. Meat, I’ll never forget when you did the helicopter with my entire family in the house. I hate you.

2. We actually thought cutting razor wire off a “Restricted Area” fence to make a barbed wire baseball bat was a good idea. And you know what, it was. Fuck that lady that called the cops.

3. You know more music than anybody I know. And that usher WILL burn.

7. Looking at your chest is as amazing as when Will Ferrell unexpectedly appeared in Wedding Crashers.

8. Thanks for letting me use your hair-jel container as a toilet.

9. When you make it to the NHL, remember who got you an A in Oral Communications. WHEELS.

11. You Cherokee bastard, I’ll always remember the way you wore legitimate feather headdresses to parties. If I ever come to visit again, we’ll record that song. But until then just remember that time we ran out with tomahawks and painted chests singing your national anthem.

12. You never did take me to your cottage, but you did let me crash at your house for days at a time. I owe you fifteen thousand rides too. You'll get yours, MB BABY.

13. You crazy drunk asshole, I have never laughed as hard as I did when you made shurikens out of crushed beer cans and bled everywhere while eating random fruit.

14. Dan the man, I miss the bonfires and the workouts where neither of us had any chance of ever gaining significant muscle mass.