College Reunions: Classic or Dud?

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I don't necessarily mean big events where the bunting is out at the old school and everyone comes back from all over the land to show off their spouses. That sort of thing's strictly for the movies, anyway. Just as valid for thread: limited reunions with a select few people from school / college / university etc - heck, even just going out for a drink with one old classmate, I don't know. Good to go back, or should we be so glad to grow older - to move away from those awful times?

― the pinefox, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think they serve much use. Just move on. They are only goo d if someone owed you money way back when and its time to collect. Yes, reunions can turn ugly.

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ugly? Tell me more.

― the pinefox, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just randomly keep in touch with certain people here and there. It's cool. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Reunions dud. Very weird as well. I know it doesn't make sense but I kind of expected everyone to be as they were when I last saw most of them (17/18/19), and was disappointed to find they were in their early 30's getting, fat, dull and bald.

However I've kept in touch with a couple of guys though and hopefully we'll still be mates when we're getting our pensions at the post office.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My freinds and I once crashed a college reunion of people liek 10 years older than me . I pretended to know people. It wasn't fun.

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Watch 'Grosse Point Blank'

― D*A*V*I*D*M, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah, watch Romy & Michelle. I used to dream about my HS reunion when I was there. Now I could give a fuck.

― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

R&M's HSR - that's a great picture.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Geez...I guess I meeting with old school friends is nice, but when the conversation turns only to discussing "what do you think happened to...", that's when it gets boring.

― james e l, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I've seen anyone I went to college or high school in... well, a long time. Kind of hard when you're living in another country. I kinda don't want to see any of them. The last college friend I saw, we planned to go to Scotland together, we fought to the point of never seeing each other again within 4 hours of his landing at Heathrow. So, dud.

― masonic boom, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Every reunion I've gone to (all two!) has been tons and tons of fun. I guess I'm weird or something. (Or not as misanthropic as I thought I was...)

― Dan Perry, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-three years pass...

lol this board is not very nostalgic, huh

I went to another college reunion this past weekend and it was super fun, again. I reconnected with a roommate who had all but vanished after graduation and we picked up from where we had left off almost like no time had passed.

― my favorite herbs are fennel and Drake (DJP), Monday, 9 June 2025 20:30 (three weeks ago)

I will say, though, that it’s much easier to make a reunion being held within effective walking distance of your house

― my favorite herbs are fennel and Drake (DJP), Monday, 9 June 2025 20:31 (three weeks ago)

> we picked up from where we had left off almost like no time had passed

This was my experience when I went to the 30 year reunion for school/class I transferred out of. I spent two years there before leaving for a much larger state school. It was easy to lose touch then obv and I'd barely talked to anyone in decades. But a friend reconnected before the reunion and invited me. Other than everyone needing to go to sleep earlier, it was ~1990 all over again. Had a great time and am grateful to have been invited.

That said, I would never go to a reunion of the school where I did actually graduate b/c no one I'd want to see would show up for it.

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 02:00 (three weeks ago)

i'd only ever consider a high school reunion at this point - pretty certain anyone from my college days that i'd want to see i still do at this point.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 10 June 2025 03:14 (three weeks ago)

I can't even comprehend a college reunion, I didn't graduate anyway but we didn't have anything resembling classes that interacted together.

I went to my 10th high school reunion and that was actually fun but I've stayed in touch to varying degrees with people since then. Skipped the 20th, no reason to see the people I haven't kept in touch with and many of those went batshit between 2016 and 2020. I don't need my kindergarten classmate turned essential oils kingpin yelling at me in public about MS-13 and vaccines.

― Lady Sovereign (Citizen) (milo z), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 03:21 (three weeks ago)

I have never had any need to attend one. High school wasn't a barrel of fun for me, and I retain zero friends from that time in my life. The few I stayed friends with after school ended, I had to walk away from after a couple years as there was all this toxic oneupmanship going on. And then I moved a whole nother state away. Good riddance to the lot.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 03:28 (three weeks ago)

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