Academy Chatter: What is your most embarrassing school experience and why?
September 18, 2015
Brian Feng, sophomore: “Fell down the stairs using crutches.”
Jon Holzbach, sophomore: “Fell down the stairs without injury.”
Ethan Wheeler, sophomore: “Forgot my backpack at home.”
Avery Lyons, sophomore: “Tripped in the hallway.”
Trudy Quidzinski, sophomore: “Ran to my mom thinking it was her, but it wasn’t.”
Jay Stadtmueller, sophomore: “Walked out of the gym locker room shirtless.”
Adam Roitstein, sophomore: “Rolled my ankle during an uncontested layup.”
Carter Olles, junior: “Tripped on the stairs first day of freshman year.”
Elijah Dercks, junior: “When I asked a girl out and she said yes, then 10 minutes later she said ‘no’ to me in front of friends.”
Oliver Struger, junior: “When I tripped on a desk.”
Teddy Suda, senior: “I got in trouble for being out of class too long. I was in the bathroom jammin’ out on my Gameboy like a baller.”
Jeff Vogelsang, senior: “When I asked Grace Tressler to be my girlfriend with a poem.”
Kristen Burkel, senior: “I tripped up the stairs….wearing a skirt….in front of Mrs. Mayer…”
Veronica Letter, senior: “Freshman year, how Vinny asked me to Fallfest. I stood up in front of the entire cross country team, and he wasn’t there. I still get made fun of.”
Robert Petitjean, senior: “When I danced with Blake with my shirt off.”
Nick Wagner, senior: “Freshman year when I fell up the stairs.”
Noah Wleczyk, senior: “When I fell out of a desk in Mr. Winkler’s room.”
Max Pallini, sophomore: “I farted really loud last year in Social Studies.”
Jack Allen, sophomore: “Got caught sleeping in class in Honors English.”
Will Motquin, junior: “When I bent over to pick up a water bottle and ripped my pants.”
Anna Huntley, freshman: “I walked into the wrong classroom and then everybody stopped and looked at me. I said, ‘Nope,’ turned, and walked out.”
Mary Claire Matthews, freshman: “I was in a spelling bee and my shirt was inside out.”
Anna Grzelak, freshman: “It was in first or second grade. I got motion sickness on the bus, and then when I got to school, I threw up over everybody.”
Grace Purcell, sophomore: “In middle school, I tripped up the stairs.”
Mary Beth Healy, freshman: “Going to a wrong class in a wrong hour.”
Maria Weron’ska, junior: “When I was at middle school during lunch, somebody spilled milk and carrots all over my skirt and shirt.”
Abbey Comark, freshman: “I was in middle school, and I ran into a pole in front of the whole class.”
Rebbeca Boucher, freshman: “I was in study hall, and I was listening to my music when I realized my headphones were not in the right way, and people could hear it.”
Esmeralda Vera Hernandez, sophomore: “Probably when my phone rang in class.”
Lexi Fitzgerald, junior: “Falling in the school lip dub.”
Ella Hunt, junior: “Wearing my backpack when I sat down on the bench at the freshman lunch table on the first day…I fell backwards.”
Robert Petitjean, senior: “Probably Mr. NDA last year.”
Barrett Desotell, junior: “My entire freshman year.”
Callie Adamczak, junior: “Haley DeGroot pushing me down the stairs in front of everyone and then awkwardly trying to pick up my backpack and leave.”
Brennan VanWychen, junior: “Freshman year at the first football game. I was one of the only three people to stand up when they did the grade chant. It was before I really knew anyone and all the seniors stood up and gator chomped us.”
Morgan Carlson, junior: “Setting off the fire alarm during basketball practice.”
Frank Sun, junior: “A teacher saw me kiss my girlfriend in China.”
Emily Martin, junior: “I fall up and down stairs occasionally.”
Han Lu, junior: “I speak lots of wrong English in class because it make me nervous.”
Yuhao Shu, junior: “I spilled the water in front of a girl, and that made me look funny.”
Nicholas Haske, junior: “I sneezed really hard and lots of snot came out of my nose during my presentation freshman year.”
Maria Haske, junior: ” Everyone in the Beauty and the Beast musical cast and crew sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to me before the show that morning.”
Diana Lei, sophomore: “Somebody put on the Ashton Kutcher Fan Fiction Video on YouTube during home room and nobody liked it. It was weird.”
Jessy Qiu, junior: “When I was a sophomore, I studied in English class,and when we took a picture, I was embarrassed because I wore the short jeans.”
Max Sonnenburg, freshman: “When I shot way over par in a golf tournament this summer.”
Ana Holzbach, sophomore: “At a hockey game I went out to play a puck, I tripped, the puck went out to the skater that was coming to me, and she scored.”
April Wang, senior: “I laughed loudly in front of my dream boyfriend because I like him.”
Wyatt Druar, sophomore: “I don’t have any.”
Nadine Druar, sophomore: “When I was spat at in Much Ado About Nothing.”
Cierra Windey, senior: “I was locked in the gym locker room with my friend for the whole class during freshman year.“
Aldo Gonzalez,sophomore: “In eighth grade on a half-day schedule I thought it was the end of the day, but it was really fourth hour.”
Bekah Witte, sophomore: in kindergarten I got lost in the halls and sat and cried until lunch when a teacher found me.”
Zachary Jerzyk, sophomore: “In fifth grade my literature teacher tripped over my books and loudly swore at me in front of the entire class.”
Katherine Van DenHeuvel, sophomore: “I called my former gym teacher by her nickname (“Mike”). She then proceeded to get mad and scold me.”
Simon Netta, sophomore: “Walking into the wrong classroom.”
Wade Druar, sophomore: “This survey.”
Noah Frigo, sophomore: “Getting locked in Mr. Dietzo’s classroom.”
Grace Purcell, freshman: “Falling down the stairs and having to get stitches on my head.”
Marcellus Thiry, freshman: “Having my nose colored black with a Sharpie for Halloween being Snoopy.”
Ryan Martin, freshman: “Going to Holy Cross.”
Reid Kaster, freshman: “Ripping my pants in fifth grade.”
Stephanie Walczyk, junior: “Probably the time I fell down the stairs, and into a senior freshman year.”
Andrew Quigley, senior: “Junior year when I choked in BOTB.”
Liam Gerl, junior: “When I got called out for breaking Coach Nowak’s key and had to bring breakfast the next day.”
Brenda Aguilar, junior: “The most embarrassing thing I did was trip during the run at my first freshman football game.”
Sam Conard, junior: “Freshman year I was at my lunch table, and my friend asked me to open a yogurt, so I said okay. My other friend wanted to open it creatively, though, so he put it on the edge of the table, and I hit the yogurt, and it splattered all over the friend that asked me to open it like two tables over.”
Claire Therrien, sophomore: “When I fell down the stairs freshman year in front of a whole bunch of upperclassmen.”
Alex Stebor, junior: “I didn’t pay for my Sweethearts date.”
Nick Messerschmidt, junior: “When I sprained my ankle freshman year and had to get crutches.”
Abby Thillman, senior: “Falling over a roller backpack freshman year.”
Madison Weber, senior: “Being the only person wearing red pants on a blue jeans day.”
Brooke Marshall, senior: “Dropping hot chocolate all over myself during lunch.”
Max Roitstein, senior: “Twisting my ankle in the walking unit in gym.”
Jack Lemkuil, senior: “When I cried freshman year because I couldn’t find my class.”
Blake Olejniczak, senior: “The number of times (6) I’ve ripped my pants over my high school career.”
Nick Wagner, senior: “Running late for class freshman year, I fell going up the stairs.”
Maureen Schick, senior: “Tripping up and down the stairs my freshman year.”
Lili Porter, senior: “Falling down a flight of stairs right in front of the cute student teacher freshman year.”
Emma Neumeyer, senior: “One time when I was delivering notes, a freshman boy dropped the door on my face.”
Lily Schumacher, sophomore: “I’m going to say general falling or tripping during class. It’s just embarrassing as a whole to all of a sudden just fall during the middle of class. It’s even worse when you’ve fallen so much people don’t even ask if you’re okay.”
Hannah Dercks, sophomore: “I was walking in the hallway to a Disney song. As I was singing my solo, I finally realized a boy I never saw before was watching me. I ran upstairs and couldn’t breathe I was laughing so hard!”
Christopher Kapic, sophomore: “Throwing up in third grade.”
Benjamin Lelinski, sophomore: “Probably the time when I peed my pants in front of my whole kindergarten class when we were practicing to sing a song for Mass.”
Danielle Lippert, sophomore: “In elementary school during Mass we would clap during the ‘Gloria.’ I didn’t know that people people did not do that during Sunday Mass, so I was the only one that started clapping.”
Conor Hogan, sophomore: “Probably the time at golf when one of the urinals sprayed my pants and everyone thought that I peed myself, and it was the most embarrassing because people posted it on Twitter.”
Mitch Chosa, freshman: “It was probably in third grade. I peed my pants and I couldn’t change, so I had to walk around school with a big pee stain, and it was embarrassing because one kid saw me and made fun of me.”
Rebecca DeBoer, sophomore: “I fell down a flight of stairs and spit my gum on this kid’s shoe because I was laughing so hard.”
Paul Gapinski, sophomore: “Probably the first all school Mass I served for. I put the book that the priest reads out of in the wrong spot in front of the entire student body. I was pretty embarrassed. Mr. Kriegl had to take the book and put it on the altar.”
Payton VanPelt, sophomore: “Probably the time my little brother peed on a World War II memorial on Memorial Day in front of World War II vets.”
Grady Brick, freshman: “Throwing up in the hallway.”
William Guevara, sophomore: “When my pants fell off during elementary school.”
Ellie Coles, sophomore: “In seventh grade, I tripped on the stairs and knocked every person down the stairs.”
Abby Anderson, sophomore: “When I ran out of Mrs. Huntley’s room in the middle of a speech.”
Hannah Ciriacks, sophomore: “When I broke a discus in track as a freshman because I threw it into a pole at a meet.”
Madeline Moureau, junior: “Probably when I fell going up the stairs right after lunch because the stairway was so crowded.”
Emily Conard, sophomore: “Almost falling off the stage when I played Juliet in eighth grade.”
Maddie Woodward, sophomore: “Wiping out in front of the entire senior class last year while walking into school.”
Meghan Yakel, sophomore: “I tripped and face planted in front of a cute senior boy last year.”
Molly Schneider, sophomore: “The spirit-themed football game during my freshman year. I don’t have any older siblings that went to NDA, so I didn’t have any spirit wear, and I showed up to the game in a red sweater. It turns out that was the other team’s color.”
Tyler Bergner, sophomore: “Umm.. When I showed up in a costume and I thought it was a dress up day.”
Ben Richards, junior: “When I fell.”
Madison Remington, junior: “On the first day of study hall my glass water bottle shattered in the commons and it was totally silent.”
Elijah Dercks, junior: “I would say when I asked a girl out and she said yes and then came back like five minutes later and said no in front of all of my friends.
Meghan Dwyer, junior: “First day of freshman year walking into a classroom of all seniors and getting gator chomped.”
Anya Carlson, junior: “My pants falling off when I was just about to run at a track meet.”
Esmeralda Vera, sophomore: “When my phone goes off in class.”
David Nelson, freshman: “Fourth grade 30 second fart.”
Brady Brick, freshman: “When I threw up in church.”
Steven Lovell, junior: “ When Emily Martin almost rejected me freshman year for Fall Fest.”
Will Motquin, junior: “When I bent over to pick up a water bottle and my shorts split right down the middle.”
Jon Lemens, junior: “When I was in the bathroom and the automatic light went out and I ran into the wall and had to get six stitches above my eye.”
Clayton Lisowki, junior: “When I got cut from the golf team.”
Quinn Snyder, junior: “When I threw a ketchup container away and accidentally spilled all over Nate Ihlenfeldt.”
Thomas Shade, junior: “When I got cut from the soccer team.”
Jacob Hardy, junior: “Freshman year.”
Corinne Meglic, junior: “When I ripped my favorite corduroy pants freshman year.”