On Friday, a teacher’s assistant was admitted into the hospital after going into an extreme state of shock upon seeing a picture one of her Math 101 students drew on the marker board before she arrived at her recitation.

Thomas Depe asked his friends if he should do it, but they insisted he just sit down.

“Ever since he took that Art 101 class, he’s been drawing on everything,” said sophomore economics major Sally Tresten.

Inspired by a scary movie he had seen recently, Depe decided to draw a witch on the big whiteboard so that his TA would see it first thing when she walked in. Little did he know the chaos that would ensue.

By the time the TA arrived, most of the students had their eyes closed and were turned away from it as Depe stood proudly by his masterpiece.

She walked into the room, cheeks red from the early morning chill and pulled her bag off of her shoulders. The students peeked from under their arms, dreading the moment she laid her eyes on the horribleness of it. She arrived at her desk, pulled out a stack of graded papers from the previous week and still hadn’t noticed either the drawing or Depe standing near it.

“Ahem,” he coughed loudly. She looked up.

“It was like a deer in headlights – no, worse – it was like she had bit into a Hot Pocket only to find that it was cold and filled with soggy lasagna.” One student told us.

Her eyes immediately went wide and she shook violently. Depe, now frowning, then realized perhaps this had been a bad idea.

It was too late, however, as the TA had a flight reaction in her brain and was cowering behind her desk, catatonically rocking back and forth as many trauma victims do.

One of the students called the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department as Depe quickly erased his picture. Fortunately for us, we got ahold of a snapshot someone in the class took of it before it was erased.