Stephen Colbert Was So Ridiculously Adorable In College

    Like, hang-his-picture-up-in-your-locker amounts of adorbs.

    David Downs was a long-time acting teacher in the theatre department at Northwestern University. During his tenure, he took many candid photos of students, including one young (and unbelievably cute) Stephen Colbert:

    He had a simply criminal head of hair, and a smile that could light up the whole damn universe.

    He looked fantastic in brown suspenders:

    And he owned at least one fabulous pair of white suspenders, too.

    That scarf. That coat. Those dimples. CAN'T EVEN HANDLE IT.

    Seriously, HE IS THE VALENTINE YOU WANT AND NEED.