LAFAYETTE, IN—A student at Purdue University is roiling after being in the wrong place at the wrong time on Wednesday of this week, which caused a cascade of events leading to him dropping out of the university. Anthony Gallegos, 19, was a sophomore boilermaker, majoring in mechanical engineering when the unfortunate incident occurred. With a forlorn look on his face for what might have been, he told this The Colon reporter what happened. "I was just on my way to my calculus course after lunch, and I stopped into the men's room. I saw shoes under one of the stalls, but I didn't think anything of it. As I was doing my business, though, there came a lot of...noise from the stall. Let's just say that whoever it was was having a rough time. I did not envy him." Gallegos had just washed his hands, and was touching up his hair when the temporary resident of the stall emerged, and called out, "Oh, hey Tony." "I just froze," shared Gallegos. "It was my calculus professor standing right there. He was the one in the stall." It was reportedly a sort of out-of-body experience for the next several minutes as Gallegos heard the echoing of every sound that had just a few moments before radiated from behind the thin stall door, repeating louder and louder, next coming with visuals of what must have been occurring, all while the professor asked him how his semester was going, and how long he had before graduation. "It was the most awkward experience I'd ever had in my life. He was there just making small talk, and I'm thinking 'Dude, I just heard every bit of what went on in there.' Talk about an elephant in the room: this was more like a [expletive] blue whale in the room." Gallegos does not recall what he said or did after that for several minutes, but he remembers seeing the professor leave the restroom, without washing his hands. After that, he remembers finding himself in the fetal position on the restroom floor, and checked his watch to find that he was 15 minutes late for his class. "I got up, washed my hands and face for a long time, and then I went outside to weigh my options. I knew one thing was for sure: I could never look Professor Silver in the eye again. There was no way I was learning another thing about calculus from that guy, not after what I heard." For a brief moment, Gallegos considered seeing how his grade would end up if he just didn't return to class for the rest of the semester. "I figured I might scrape by with a C, but then, all I could think is what he might have touched on that campus. Whose hands has he shaken? What classrooms might he have taught in? Those same hands could have been anywhere. I knew I could never set foot on campus again after that." Gallegos has not returned to Purdue since that afternoon, instead driving straight home to Dayton, Ohio to stay with his parents. "He doesn't really like to talk about it," said Frank Gallegos, Anthony's father. "He just stays in his room. I think he'll probably take some time away from school for now. Maybe in a few months he'll think about transferring his credits and trying again." When reached for comment, Professor Silver declined to make a statement as he was mowing down a beef and bean burrito with extra onion.