For some, high school is often regarded as the best time of a person’s life, but there are also many speed bumps along the way. Members of the graduating senior class looked back on their high school careers and remembered the most embarrassing moments they endured at school.

Senior Joe McBride experienced as a freshman what sounds like the worst nightmare of an underclassman just starting out at a new school.

“I sat in chocolate wearing white cargo shorts during lunch my freshman year,” said McBride.

Likewise, senior Caitlin Van Kirk suffered the longest and most embarrassing experience of her life so far during her freshman year. Everybody knows that awful feeling of forgetting what to say during a presentation.

“For English, we got extra credit for memorizing lines from a famous piece of literature and reciting them in front of the entire class, […] and I was saying them flawlessly all day, but as soon as I got up in front of the class I completely forgot them. I just kind of stood in front of my class trying to remember until my teacher decided to prompt me,” said Van Kirk.

Senior Parker Dean realized very quickly that a new school can be intimidating and foreign, and he ended up starting off high school with embarrassment.

“First day of school, I went into what I thought was the right room number but it was in the wrong building (the old one they tore down). It was my first class ever at Yorktown, and I walked into a senior ceramics class instead of biology. When I walked in, all the kids laughed at me and Mr. Trueheart said, ‘What’s the matter, son?’ When I walked out of that classroom, I almost died of embarrassment. First day, first class, and I was laughed at by a bunch of seniors,” said Dean.

Everybody knows that seniors love to manipulate and mess with underclassmen. Senior Noah Chase learned that hard truth as a freshman.

“When I was running for class president, the seniors of that year convinced me to wink at the end of my speech, and when it played in classrooms I was really embarrassed,” said senior Noah Chase.

Embarrassing moments make the best of us wish we could sink through the floor or become invisible, but this is only due to a lack of perspective. Without these hilarious events, individuals would have nothing to look back on nostalgically. Believe the graduating class– these stories will make your future self and grandchildren thank you.