--- title: Student Saves Drowning Squirrel With Trick From 'The Office' description: "The Office" is one of the most bingeable shows on Netflix, and it's also responsible for saving lives – well, at least one squirrel's life. canonical: https://time.com/5225993/student-saved-drowning-squirrel-the-office-cpr/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-03T17:16:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:49.514Z og:title: College Student Saved Drowning Squirrel Using Trick She Learned From 'The Office' og:description: "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" og:url: https://time.com/5225993/student-saved-drowning-squirrel-the-office-cpr/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt81e09e26b87b2572/69892cb1cf40a84316c4bd5b/the-office-cpr.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Office og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: College Student Saved Drowning Squirrel Using Trick She Learned From 'The Office' twitter:description: "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt81e09e26b87b2572/69892cb1cf40a84316c4bd5b/the-office-cpr.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A College Student Saved a Drowning Squirrel Using a Trick She Learned From _The Office_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 3, 2018 5:16 PM UTC  THE OFFICE -- "Grief Counseling" Episode 4 -- Aired 10/12/2006 -- Pictured: (l-r) Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor, Steve Carell as Michael Scott, Phyllis Smith as Phyllis Lapin, Paul Lieberstein as Toby Flenderson, Jenna Fischer as Pam Beesly, Angela Kinsey as Angela Martin, Creed Bratton as Creed Bratton, Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone, and Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute (Photo by Justin Lubin/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) THE OFFICE -- "Grief Counseling" Episode 4 -- Aired 10/12/2006 -- Pictured: (l-r) Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor, Steve Carell as Michael Scott, Phyllis Smith as Phyllis Lapin, Paul Lieberstein as Toby Flenderson, Jenna Fischer as Pam Beesly, Angela Kinsey as Angela Martin, Creed Bratton as Creed Bratton, Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone, and Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute (Photo by Justin Lubin/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)NBC–NBC via Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 3, 2018 5:16 PM UTC Not only is [_The Office_](http://time.com/5212729/the-office-michael-scott-kanye-west-albums/)one of the most bingeable shows on [Netflix](http://time.com/5223968/seth-rogen-netflix-april-fools-day-2018-prank/), but turns out it’s also responsible for saving lives. Thanks to the famous scene from season five’s “Stress Relief” in which [Steve Carell’s Michael,](http://time.com/5128575/trump-michael-soctt-face-swap-the-office/) Dwight and the rest of the Scranton branch take a CPR lesson, Central Michigan University student Natalie Belsito was recently able to rescue a drowning squirrel from near-certain death. In a video that has been watched nearly 33,000 times since Wednesday, Belsito can be seen performing CPR on the squirrel — which had fallen into a campus pool — before taking it back to her dorm to warm it up with a blow dryer. “Brought a squirrel back from the dead, what was your Wednesday like?” she captioned the clip. > [](https://twitter.com/natbels7/status/979178093934911488) She apparently wouldn’t have known what to do without the help of the Dunder Mifflin gang. “Honestly, when I was doing it, I was thinking of the episode of _The Office_ when they do CPR,” she told student newspaper [_Central Michigan Life_](http://www.cm-life.com/article/2018/03/student-saves-squirrel), referencing the scene in which the employees learn to time chest compressions to the tune of “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. “I was literally singing that song as I tried to do it.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5225993/student-saved-drowning-squirrel-the-office-cpr/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5225993/student-saved-drowning-squirrel-the-office-cpr/"},"headline":"A College Student Saved a Drowning Squirrel Using a Trick She Learned From The Office","datePublished":"2018-04-03T17:16:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:49.514Z","description":"\"Stayin' alive, stayin' alive\"","url":"https://time.com/5225993/student-saved-drowning-squirrel-the-office-cpr/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt81e09e26b87b2572/69892cb1cf40a84316c4bd5b/the-office-cpr.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt81e09e26b87b2572/69892cb1cf40a84316c4bd5b/the-office-cpr.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Office","caption":"The Office","creditText":"NBC–NBC via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5225993/student-saved-drowning-squirrel-the-office-cpr/","name":"A College Student Saved a Drowning Squirrel Using a Trick She Learned From The Office"}}]}] ```