URIS HALL—As the students in the Behavior of Neuroscience Laboratory class wrapped up the final rounds of their experiment last Wednesday, one student, Aria Romero ‘26, generously offered to take final inventory of the lab animals for her fellow classmates.
While her classmates graciously accepted and left early, reports of a suspicious figure slipping out the back entrance emerged. Passersby observed a female student whispering into her beanie hat, which some say appeared to be wriggling gently on her head.
When the class returned yesterday, Romero and her partner’s rat was unlocatable. When asked about the rat’s potential whereabouts, Romero told reporters “I swear I have no idea where he could be. This isn’t like George—I mean, the rat. I’m sure whoever took him had a good reason. I mean—”
Romero’s lab partner mentioned to the press that a week prior, Romero had become strange and withdrawn when the professor mentioned the rat’s impending euthanization. “She asked if I wanted to name the rat. I told her I didn’t think it was a good idea since he was about to die anyway, but I saw her saving photos of him in her camera roll under the name George Rat.”
The rat remains at large. At press time, Romero was spotted slipping Cheerios into her wriggling beanie.
