Kristin Matuszak, who received a bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison Sunday, said she always felt like a fish out of water in Madison. It became so overwhelming that she left school after three years, vowing she’d never come back.
Whenever she thought about her time at UW, it was the zaniness she remembered most — the Mifflin Street block party, Halloween on State Street and the time she went to a football game and a student two rows in front of her opened up a cooler, pulled out a live fish and threw it up into the stands.
“But while I was away, I kind of felt that there was something missing,” Matuszak said while giving the commencement address on behalf of her fellow graduates Sunday afternoon at the Kohl Center.