Have you ever submitted a birth or wedding announcement/photo to your college alumni magazine?

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I have submitted a birth or wedding announcement and/or photo to my university's alumni magazine and I will tell you why.
I have not submitted a birth or wedding announcement and/or photo to my university's alumni magazine and I will tell you why not.
I did not graduate from college/university or my alma mater does not publish an alumni magazine, but I would submit one.
I did not graduate from college/university or my alma mater does not publish an alumni magazine, but I would not submit one.

Many people form long term emotional attachment to their colleges or universities. Which always seemed really weird to me. And, yes, I loved my final two years of college (after hating the first two-and-a-half years and transferring three times).

I always thought a lot of the wedding announcements came from other alumni who were in attendance, not the actual person(s) getting married but maybe that's just a ploy

no marriage, no babies, but i receive two alumni magazines (undergrad + master's).

I don't think I've ever read my alumni magazine, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have births/weddings in there. More like xyz has a great job, give us some money.

I think I saw mine once cause someone who worked at my office was subscribed so I pawed through it, anyway lol

my school was big enough that I don't think you really feel a bond w/ every other human being who went there...I don't really care what they're doing

I do feel a bond w/ everyone on the football team, but only when we win

the cover of the current issue of my alumni magazine has a philanthropist who gave the university a bunch of money to start a school of dance. so that's kind of awesome. i'm always happy to see people supporting the arts.

i always browse these 3 sections

published books
class notes
obits

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I don't even know if I have an alumni magazine, undergrad degree was just a check in the box for me

i didn't attend my undergrad graduation ceremony. and the only reason i attended my law school graduation was b/c my parents wanted to go.

Skipped undergrad in favor of an all day drunk. I went to law school graduation bc it cost a lot of money and was hard and I wanted all the attention for it I could possibly get. At about an hour in to standing backstage in heels and a stupid robe, waiting for all the church bullshit (catholic school) to stop so I could get my diploma and sit down I realized I had made a huge mistake.

I have considered sending in a job notice to my law school alumni mag as some sort of statement but I haven't been able to figure out what that statement is so I didn't.

Nah. I prefer my alma mater to not even know where I am, tho they always seem to find me.

Nah. I prefer my alma mater to not even know where I am, tho they always seem to find me.

lol -- school alumni offices are like IRS.

and the way i see it, since i went to a state undergrad/law school i "donate" every time i pay my state taxes. which doesn't stop them from trying to squeeze money outta me, of course.

be true to your school

I was just looking at mine while sorting the mail and was thinking "who the hell sends their mundane shit in to this for publication?" My wife went to a much larger and swankier school and the submissions in hers are much more obnoxious.

I only ever thought about sending one in only when I moved 2000 west and got a job at the local food co-op after a couple weeks of unemployment, just to counteract all the "X and Y had their fourth kid" and "Jim now works at [suburban Detroit engineering firm]".

my undergrad alma mater always manages to send me no matter how often I move and leave no forwarding address

I know a lot of university professors and their alumni magazines always seemed to start using "Dr." or "Prof." in a brown-noser sort of way as soon as they got their jobs, despite no updates or forwarding addresses from them. It's kind of creepy.

^ 2000 miles west, that is

I did not graduate from college/university or my alma mater does not publish an alumni magazine

I did not graduate but they still send me the magazine and the begging letters every term. Sometimes I flick through to see if anyone I knew is in it, which happened for the first time last term and only left me feeling kind of depressed about everything, so maybe I won't be doing that again.

Also there's a prize cryptic crossword, which I once got all except one answer in, so since then I've felt like eventually if I only put the effort in maybe I could do all of it and win the prize, except as of last issue it's got way harder to win and the prize has been downgraded from a £20 book token to a crappy pen or something, so eh.

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My law school alumni association just called me for money (gave them my standard response - "I will consider contributing when I've paid off my student loans, so call me back in 40 years") but also told me about this new alumni discount card that gives me 10% off our favorite pizza place. Who says law school doesn't pay off big??!?!??!!????