<p>I’ll probably keep in touch regularly with two or three people. I’ll just say hi to the rest on the internet once in awhile.</p>
<p>GooPV - I’m a graduating senior too, and I don’t find that very weird. I currently have three friends a year ahead of me, and I still keep in touch with them. I can kind of tell right now who the handfull of people I’ll keep in touch with is. Like others have said, high school consists of many “friends of convenience”.</p>
<p>I’m also a graduating senior. I graduated last week, so I will probably never speak to most of my class again. I do hope to stay in touch with my 6 or 7 close friends, which will be hard because we’re all going to different colleges that are scattered everywhere.</p>
<p>I am still very close to my 2 best friends from high school. We talk on AIM, Facebook, the phone, and send each other letters and care packages. There are a few other people who I’ll talk to or hang out with, just to catch up, every now and then, but I don’t stay in touch with them the way I do with my 2 close friends.</p>
<p>I’m a graduating senior, graduating in a couple weeks. </p>
<p>To be honest, I found that this year I’ve been friends with a lot more people who I never previously considering even talking to. It seems that most of the people in my senior class have become somewhat mature enough to put the petty typical high school drama behind us. </p>
<p>For what’s it worth, I want to keep in touch with my friends - but after reading so many of these posts I’ve started to wonder.</p>
<p>To the people that plan on or have already cut ties with their past high school how would you describe your relation to the school? Possibly negative? Other reasons?</p>
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<p>I plan on doing the same.</p>
<p>I keep in touch with the people I liked. They are still good friends.</p>
<p>Courtney, don’t worry about your friends being scattered… that’s what Facebook is for!</p>
<p>I plan on keeping in contact with my closest friends at least. Some of us already have facebook (or a myspace too for that matter). But I think facebook is better anyways because random people aren’t seeing information about you. But I plan on doing the whole e-mailing and calling thing during the school year. And definitally hanging out over the breaks. I mean, if you really liked these friends, you would find a way to make it work…right?</p>
<p>Here’s the breakdown for me…</p>
<p>I talk to about 12 of my friends from my graduating class. I had 180 friends in this class, some of whom I knew better than others (those 12 were my close friends). Casual friends WILL DRIFT AWAY.</p>
<p>I was close with about 20 underclassmen and I remain in contact with about 15 of them. I knew close to 120 back in the day. I became the “big brother” figure during my senior year of high school and that still holds true today.</p>
<p>This gives me a total of 27 friends I still talk to. My high school was small, tight-knit, and a really friendly place most of the time. We can make that total 32 because I still talk to 5 former teachers a lot.</p>
<p>My experience with high school wasn’t negative or anything but it’s more of the mindset that I’ve been there done that, that high school’s done everything it can for me and that includes friends of convenience. I want to only continue with true friendships and not waste my time with plastic ones.</p>
<p>I still stay in touch with all my friends from home. It’s definitely possible.</p>
<p>Take the number of friends you still have from Jr. high and Elementry school, divide by two and wa-la!</p>
<p>AUlostchick- The thing with Facebook is, who knows if most of my friends will create one! I know of two who definitely will, but as for the others, they are RARELY online so who knows. But, the way I’m beginning to look at it is, if we’re really meant to be friends, then we will find a way to stay in touch.</p>
<p>i talk to maybe 5 friends from hs, and 2 of them are just about to graduate from hs. it doesn’t matter to me, because so much of my hs was phony, so i was fine not speaking to them after graduation.</p>
<p>i talk to a lot more people because of facebook and myspace, but those are usually pleasantries-“hey how’s school going?” “when are your finals?” all that good bs</p>
<p>I see a lot of people looking back at their high school friends and thinking that those people weren’t ‘true’ friends etc. Going along with that I think a lot of you are going to find yourselves looking at your current college friends in a similar light 5-10 years from now. Unless you plan on living in close proximity to your friends for the rest of your life they aren’t going to be there forever. Your friends have changed from elementary school to middle school to high school to college, and I don’t think college –> working life is going to be any different :)</p>
<p>Only to a certain extent ucbhi. The job factor is one of the main reasons people join fraternities/sororities. Also, most people end up working in the same area that they graduate from so knowing somebody who’s dad is in upper-management can put you at the get you a job easier.</p>
<p>Well of course it isn’t going to happen the instant you graduate, but I’m talking in the 5-10 year range. People branch out. Most don’t stay in the same job (the same career even) for too long. People on facebook have like 200 friends listed, they only really talk to 50 or less, and they probably continue talking to only 10 or less after graduation. The yield rate is probably pretty much the same as HS –> college. Greek alumni will give you a bigger network for sure, but network doesn’t mean close friendship.</p>
<p>Well my best friend is going to the same school as me, as are 2 other people from my HS, and I definitely want to keep in touch with a lot of people from my HS. My school has a tradition of a lot of kids going back throughout their next few years to attend athletic events as well as to do “mini college days” to tell the current students what its like at their school.</p>
<p>Ckmets13, do you go to a smaller high school?</p>
<p>My school has a history of folks sticking together for their entire lifetime. And yes, I plan on attending a few football games next year even though I’ll be a sophomore in college. If they go all the way (a lot of people think they might), I’ll make the three hour drive to see the championship, probably meeting some PSU folks up there too.</p>