Did you go to your 10 year HS or College Reunion??

[Eyerish]

I just got my invite for my 10 year college reunion and I'm debating on whether I should go or not. I'm leaning toward no, but I'm kind of curious to see what happened to some of the dinks I dealt with back then.

Your thoughts??

[SacredCow]

1. I'm not big on reunions....

Anybody that I wanted to stay in touch with- I did. Everybody else? There's probably a reason that they're part of my past.

[bigwillq]

2. I went to my 10-year HS.

I had a lot of fun.

How was your college experience? Do you want to genuinely see some of these people or just go for the popcorn?! :)

[Eyerish]

10. I actually really enjoyed my college years...

but most of the people I'm still friends with weren't the same year as me so they won't be attending. The people from my year were pretty intolerable when they were 21 and I'm not so sure they are any better 31. :rofl:


Popcorn moments would be great, but I'm figuring it'll mostly be a bunch of people showing me pictures of their kids and asking me when I'm getting married. Kind of like family get-togethers :rofl:

[bigwillq]

11. You might want to pass then.

Or go and hope for the best. People may surprise you. We haven't had a college one yet, as far as I know. I've been out of college only seven years. I probaly wouldn't go to my college one. I LOVED college but I commuted and didn't really hang out with a lot of people from college outside of class.

[old mark]

3. I graduated from HS in 1965, never been back since, have no plans

otherwise.

Went back to one of my old colleges once, just to visit, realized I hardly remember anyone's name anymore, and didn't care to.

I never enjoyed school very much, just something I had to get through.

mark

ADDED: My high school still sends me a news letter every 6 months, pretty much a plea for money. I glance at it to see who died, throw it out.

[Eyerish]

17. That's kind of what happened to me with this...

after 9 years of nothing I started getting letters from the Alumni committee and their monthly newsletter. Then just last week I got my invite. I kind of felt that's where all this was going anyway.

That said, I'm now pretty sure I'm just going to give it a miss.

[Blue Diadem]

4. Didn't go to the 5 or 10 yr, did go to the 20 yr.

They didn't have a 30 yr or else I wasn't invited. :rofl: I really suspect it was due to some wild things (I heard about them and it was the same group that engaged in that in HS) that went on after the reunion, enough that it affected marriages. That same group also handled planning the reunions. Our class was small, something like 65 people. Everyone knew everyone else's business.

I found no change in most of my HS classmates. We were just decades older.
edited to add:

I did find it sad that so many classmates had passed away. We lost 6 of the guys during those 20 yrs.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. The 10-YR is rough. Still a lot of posturing going on.

[Eyerish]

12. That's what I'm thinking too.

That always seems to be the one where people try their hardest to show how much they've changed in the past 10 years. Like some sort of redemption.

[crim son]

6. I did neither but I have always heard that people are pleasantly surprised

when they do go, even if HS (or college) was a miserable experience. It might help purge demons, if you are persecuted, but it isn't a disaster if you don't go.

[Chan790]

7. Skipped it.

No regrets. My graduating class was 73 kids and we all pretty much still talk regularly despite being spread from Japan to England by way of CT. Facebook is a good thing in that way.

[Ohio Joe]

8. No but...

I got a call from a girl I went to high school with asking me to attend the ten year reunion. During our conversation she told me "I heard about Bill, I'm so sorry, I know you two were very close". Bill is my best friend, we have known each other since kindergarten and he is very much alive. Just because I like to sometimes mess with people, I said "yeah... I still can't talk about it". I never did find out what they thought happened to him but Bill and I still laugh about it today (almost 30 years since high school now).

[KitchenWitch]

9. I went to my HS class' 15 year reunion

Kind of realized why I dropped out of HS in the first place.

Other than a very limited few people, I found it to be a waste of time and money. I kept in touch with all the people I wanted to from HS BEFORE I went to the reunion. There was really nobody else I wanted to see.

[Symarip]

13. I went hoping for the best

But it was pretty horrible. The cliques were still there and instantly established from minute one. All of my outcast friends didn't show up. I just sat in the corner with an old female cohort and made fun of everyone over a few drinks. The only shining moment was a buddy of mine who was a super geek in highschool now works for Lucas Films, has a hot wife, and looks like a stud. It was good to see him doing well and he kind of showed up the jocks-turn-college dropouts-turn-working for their parents.

If High School was torture for you, like it was for me, don't expect your reunion to be anything different.

[Eyerish]

22. If this was my HS reunion there'd be no way in hell I'd go...

Those 4 years were horrible for me, so that invite went right into the shredder after I got a a good laugh at it.

I actually enjoyed and had fun in college, so I thought I might entertain going. I could use an excuse to go back to the Bay Area for a little while and maybe on the off chance run into someone I actually like from my graduating class.

[Wapsie B]

14. I didn't go to my 10 yr. high school reunion.

High school was not the most pleasant time in my life for a variety of reasons. I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to enjoy anything a 10-year reunion would offer. I have been back to all of them since then. Even though I went to a small school we still had enough grads, 93, that I have gotten curious as to what everyone's doing. Beyond that curiosity though there's a reason the past is just that.

I did go to my ex's 10 yr. from high school. Much larger school, around 400 grads, and lots and lots of posturing. You saw the typical long-haired party guy in h.s. and college transform into the perfectly coiffed yuppie playing the advancement game up the corporate ladder. Lots of rich kids showing off. Very very cliquey group. I'm sure they could've made a season of HIgh School Reunion about that class.

[bikebloke]

15. Missed them all.

I'm not sure there was more than one though. I ran into somebody form the same class, who said my name was on a "missing" list. At the time, I was living the commie life on an Israeli kibbutz and moshav (and not even jewish).

Our high school had a 50 year anniversary and open house. As I wasn't doing anything I stopped by. It was the first time in 30 years since I set foot in there and it felt pretty weird. I took a stroll around, then bolted.

The graduating class after mine is holding its 35th reunion and has invited people from the classes before and after. I'll give it a miss.

[Blue Diadem]

18. We talked about doing that, inviting the classes before and after.

The planning committee never followed through with it.

[gmoney]

16. Go undercover...

Dress as one of the waitstaff and just check everyone out on the sly. :)

[Eyerish]

19. Ooohhhh Tempting...

but with my luck it would just end up being an I love Lucy episode...

Well at least they'd have something to talk about at the 20 year reunion!! :hi:

[MorningGlow]

20. I went to my five-year HS reunion--that was enough

It was sparsely attended, except for the obnoxious clique--they were out in full force (of course). I went to a Catholic girls' school, and I was particularly irked by the clique members who had married at 18 and churned out four or five good little Catholics, and looked at me with a pained expression when I told them I wasn't married. I was 22, and they had me written off for dead! Or at least "old maid." :eyes:

I was surprised that I had a good time hanging out with people I didn't spend time with when I WAS in school, but it wasn't enough to get me to go back any other time (and my 25th just passed).

Never went to any college reunions, mostly because it's a four-hour drive and the town has very few places to stay. I would have liked to have gone to my 20th, but I didn't know of any friends who were going, so it just kind of came and went.

[Eyerish]

23. I went to an all girls catholic high school too..

so I know what you mean. I ran into a few girls while home from from college and all 4 had dropped out of college, were married and had children...at 21. I couldn't believe it. Their first question from one of them to me after the initial hello was "So any marriage plans in the near future?" I told her that finishing college was my first priority and then I'd think about getting married and bringing children into the world. The look on their faces soured and the conversation kind of ended there... :rofl:

[Jamastiene]

21. I didn't go.

I see individuals from time to time from high school and that's more than too much as it is. One silver lining is that some of the snobbiest, most stuck up spoiled brats destined to greatness in my high school work in retail as a cashier now. :evilgrin:

[no name no slogan]

24. I went to my 10-yr college reunion

It was the weekend after 9/11, so it was a bit strange. It was okay overall, and I'd go to my 20th. My 10th was a bit annoying, because it was in a small banquet room at a hotel, and we had a very loud live band, so if you wanted to talk you had to go to out into the hall or sit in the lobby. Kind of annoying to say the least.

[LibertyLover]

25. I didn't go to the 10th, but I did go to the 20th

It was amusing. The 'in' crowd had all grown older and heavier. A few looked like they had been ridden hard and put up wet. Just as when I was in high school, I had almost nothing in common with anyone except a few friends, who luckily were at the reunion. We grabbed a table and talked and talked. The DJ was awful as he had no music from when we were in school. Stuff from before and after, but nothing that we had listened to. I don't believe there has been another attempt to hold another reunion, although now it might be even more fun - I'm married and the mother of a 6 year old daughter, when most of my high school contemporaries are looking at being grandparents. Talk about another 'little in common' moment. :evilgrin:

[livetohike]

26. I did. I had a great time

What I saw (our graduating class had 672 students) was that for some people, they peaked in High School and it all went downhill from there. Some of us "bloomed" after high school. Yes, the cliques were still intact, but most people were much friendlier than they were in high school.

The football jocks for the most part were already out of shape. The cheerleaders who dared show up still looked the part - but there was a lot of speculation about those who didn't show.

I also went to the 25th reunion, but that was boring in comparison.