HS Reunions

stephfromMIT · 09-05-2012, 04:37 PM

Just received the invite for my 5 year HS reunion. Can't believe I've been outta HS that long already. Anyone have any experience with reunions? (note I had a largely positive experience)

Corkey · 09-05-2012, 04:39 PM

4 years until my 40th....yea I'm old. Enjoy it if you go. I never went.

princessbelle · 09-05-2012, 04:44 PM

I went to my 10 year. Was voted "least changed since graduation". Now, that was not exactly a compliment. I was just 28 so it wasn't necessarily about looks.

I'm thinking it was more about my clothes. LOL. Anyway. I had a blast!!!!

Words · 09-05-2012, 05:10 PM

I opted out of attending my high school 25th reunion because high school to me represented nothing but isolation and misery.

I heard through the grapevine afterwards though - and this was confirmed by my mother - that teachers had named me 'the girl most likely to blow up the building'.

At least they remembered me.

Words

aishah · 09-05-2012, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Words

I opted out of attending my high school 25th reunion because high school to me represented nothing but isolation and misery.

this too. i have friends who enjoyed high school and i just. don't. get. it. i was suicidally depressed the whole time and spent all of my time dancing and studying. i didn't have friends. i'm glad there are people who enjoyed high school, and i'm much more social and happy as a person now, but i absolutely hated it.

DapperButch · 09-05-2012, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by aishah

this too. i have friends who enjoyed high school and i just. don't. get. it. i was suicidally depressed the whole time and spent all of my time dancing and studying. i didn't have friends. i'm glad there are people who enjoyed high school, and i'm much more social and happy as a person now, but i absolutely hated it.

I was lucky. I loved high school and my androgynous presentation was accepted.

That said, one of my closest friends in high school was President of the Senior class and has been rather lax on having reunions. No one heard from her past the 5 year one she put together. Hopefully, she will get together a 25 year reunion. Some random kids had a 20 year one, but I didn't go.

weatherboi · 09-05-2012, 05:13 PM

I attended my 10 year reunion. It was a lot of fun and everybody was really nice to me unlike my experience in school. I am glad I braved it, gave people the benefit of the doubt and went. I am planning on attending my 30th if it is possible.

Beloved · 09-05-2012, 05:15 PM

My school had a 10 year. I didn't go. It was really expensive and if I really want to keep in touch with you I would have. Now with things like Facebook, I wonder if reunions will die out. It's much easier to find people now.

laruss · 09-05-2012, 05:20 PM

I went to my 10th, I really did not want to as High School was not the greatest time in my life. Not that school or friends were an issue, just my life in general. However, a friend convinced me to go.

I was glad I went, it was good to see everyone in a different light. See how much high school really doesn't matter. I reconnected with people, but mostly I just let some things go.

I am coming up on 30 years soon, they didn't have a 25th, I wonder if they will have a 30th. I don't know if I would go. There really is no one I need to see. Everyone I want to talk to I do, FaceBook is good for that.

Will FaceBook and other social media be the end of High School reunions?

aishah · 09-05-2012, 07:04 PM

either we didn't have a 5-year or i didn't get an invite, lol

i don't know if i'll go to my 10th, it depends a lot on money and living situation when it rolls around. i might go just because it'd be a good time to see people i went to college with, or to visit my sister. or to see my teachers - i'm still in touch with a few of my hs teachers.

my situation is a little weird because i graduated high school early, and i didn't know most of the people i graduated with - i don't remember a lot of them and i doubt they'll remember me. i also just am not big on these sorts of things...i skipped college graduation, my degree and diploma are in a box somewhere. i went to hs graduation because it was required.

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Beloved Member How Do You Identify?: alive Preferred Pronoun?: um Relationship Status: married Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: on the stars Posts: 460 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,415 Thanked 1,653 Times in 298 Posts Rep Power: 19348702	My school had a 10 year. I didn't go. It was really expensive and if I really want to keep in touch with you I would have. Now with things like Facebook, I wonder if reunions will die out. It's much easier to find people now.

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