The bad-ass-est mo-fo in the class of '06, Brian Hirshman has:
- Taken seven classes at a time
- Attempted to drink a gallon of milk in one hour, twice
- Eaten a handful of red pepper
- Signed up to write a thesis and two mini-theses
- Stuck it to the man
- Spent Halloween night alone in Hopkins forest
- Threatened to declare his own Mountain Day, if Morty failed to do so
- Won a cheesecake in a pumpkin hunt
- "Explored" about half of the "vertical surfaces" on campus
- Worn exclusively shorts for an entire winter season in Williamstown
- Opposed anchor housing unabashedly
- Run for College Council President, along with the dearly departed Amarnath Santhanam, and let the latter throw a pie in his face upon their defeat
- Turned everything in Dan Burns '06's room backwards.
- Petitioned the state of Kentucky to transfer Prof. Morgan, an honorary Colonel in the state militia, to the navy, so he would become Captain Morgan.
- Walked to Lower Mission and driven off-campus to buy dinner because Driscoll was closed and Mission dining hall was too far away
- Carried a tub of ice cream out of the dining hall on his tray for the consumption of those dining outside.
- Studied with his friends in Bridge Club and Captain Morgan to become an accomplished bridge player
- Eaten a matzah bacon cheeseburger
- Submitted a randomly generated paper as a thesis draft
- Driven 827 miles to watch his younger brother play tenns, and would gladly do so again
- Camped at Death Valley in August
- Sought to co-teach CS334 in the spring of 2006, seeing as the computer science department didn't have a prof for the class, but was not given permission to do so
- Read the majority of "The Brothers Karamazov" in a single night
- Been waiting for the right weather conditions to play on playing Frisbie Golf on the Taconic Golf Course
- Learned to type using a Dvorak keyboard layout
- Won a game of blindfold chess against a sighted opponent.
He has also been a prominent member of the College Bowl team, Williams Trivia, and Chess Club.