“If I ever wanted to leave the school, I would just ask my stepdad because he was the principal of my high school, and he would just write me a pass to leave. But one day, it was a pretty spring day outside and I didn’t feel like being in school, so I skipped for real.  My friends and I took one of our parent’s cars, bought smoothies from Tropical Smoothie, and drove up and down 1431 for the whole day.” – Leah Randall, Algebra II and Math Models 

“We had a two story building, and I was sitting in one of my math classes and the room above me was a computer class, with a very lenient teacher. I looked out the window and there was a kid being lowered to the ground with a computer mouse tied around his ankle. The kid being lowered was our valedictorian.” – Robert Mossman, Algebra I

“For my friend’s 16th birthday, we blindfolded her. We took her to the parking lot and got her excited about getting a car. We took off her blindfold and in the middle of the parking space was a little Matchbox station wagon. We were nerds, so that was as vicious as we could get.” – Maureen McShane, US History and AP US Government

“We were on the way home from a volleyball game on the bus. It was late. It was dark, and ice was readily available. This know-it-all, stuck up girl was taking a nap against the window, so we started throwing ice at the window, and hitting her and she snitched.” – Jenna Malone, Geometry and Pre-AP Geometry

“The high school that I attended had a lot of gangs, so my friends and I made our own gang called the Alphadogs. We had bandanas that we would wear in our pockets. Every time one of us got an A on a test or a paper, we would all stand up and shout ‘ALPHADOGS!’ ” – Jamie Maples, AP World History and AP European History

“Picture this, January 1985. Big hair, good music – it’s rockin’. I get transferred; I have to transfer high schools because we moved. Every day this guy keeps staring at me. So one day I wasn’t in the best of moods, which is so unlike me, and I looked at him and I said to him ‘Ay – what’re you lookin’ at?! Huh?’ And he said ‘I’m looking at the most beautiful girl I’ve ever laid eyes on.’ I said ‘Of course you are. Now take those big, geeky, nerdy eyes of yours and turn them around the other way before I poke them out with a fork.’ This is the man that I have been with 27 years and married to for 23 and a half years and he is the love of my life.” – Jan Carpenter, Nurse