Skills

Don't be shy. Can you do something that other people find useful, entertaining, or impressive? Don't hide it under a bushel! Instead, post here. Put your proficiency in parentheses. Add new categories and skills as appropriate.

This page was getting pretty big and hard to navigate/read/edit, so it's broken into categories. Consider this the "Miscellaneous Skills" section.

See also:

Students with Language Skills

Students with Automotive Skills

Students with Body Skills

Students with Computer Skills

Animal Sounds

Caveman Talk

Chris St.Cyr

Dog Bark

Danny Fischler '06 barks at cars, beeping alarms, and squirrels with nice legs.

Cat Meow

Alexa Herlach and she does it often.

Julianne Shelby '06 is probably just actually a cat

Bear Growl

Despite failing to get the dancing, trained circus bear part of "Gorky" in her high school's production of "The Cave Dwellers," Katie Montgomery was lauded for her ability to sound sort of like a bear.

Burping

Samantha Peterson can burp the alphabet. Backwards.

Circus Arts & other amazing feats

I can ride a unicycle!

Alex Ambros (the 1 in 2000 girl)

Elissa Brown (in the same entry as Alex - what's the probability of that?)

Abby McBride can too!

Bryan Dragon can but doesn't want anybody to know about it.

I can slackline

Elissa Brown (shakily)

Alex Ambros

Dave Kleinschmidt (if I'm lucky)

Evan Bick

Sean McKenzie (anywhere and everywhere)

I can juggle (balls, clubs, knives, flaming torches, etc.)

Alex Ambros (working on passing clubs)

Elissa Brown (see above. We'll get it eventually)

Ben Brooks (I can do everything listed in the title except "etc." Whatever that is...)

Jason Ren (I can do everything listed AND Etc. I know what it is)

Robin Stewart (He's the master)

Jacob Eisler '04 says his one of his two major accomplishments in high school was learning to juggle.

Communication

Margaret Pigman can read and write braille, and has a braille typewriter! And, and, and! Margaret takes class notes in Braille.

Diana Davis '07 can write holding a pencil with her toes.

Jonathan Landsman '05 is the fastest two-finger typist there is, and can do so blindly.

Impressions

Joseph Gangestad '06 can do an uncanny Gollum (Andy Serkis)

Dan Wollin can too.

Joe Shoer '06 can do Stitch fairly okay.

Luck

Lisetta Shah can find 4-leaf clovers pretty much just by looking down at the ground for a couple seconds, and sometimes without even that much effort.

Alex Ambros see above, plus those trippy five and six leaf ones