<p>I thought of putting this up as sort of a conversation starter, since my 25th HS reunion is this fall. My HS class is VERY close, and I love all my classmates like brothers and sisters, even those who I didn’t like very much during HS, but as much as I love my alma mater, you couldn’t PAY me to attend a college reunion.</p>
<p>For those of you out there - do you attend HS reunions, college reunions, or both? How are they the same, or different? And do you prefer or attend one over the other?? A curious mind wants to know!!</p>
<p>I have attended almost all of my college reunions - my 30th was last fall and and a small group of us are having our own private 31st reunion in October. I wouldn’t miss those. I have not attended my high school reunion since year 10 - I just don’t have as much in common with them and haven’t maintained any relationships. I have attended one law school reunion but didn’t enjoy it much and probably won’t attend another. My law school class took itself, and apparently still does, way too seriously.</p>
<p>College, for sure. I couldn’t wait to get out of HS, in fact left a year early. I tried one HS reunion and don’t ever expect to try another. Nice enough people, but not my tribe!</p>
<p>My husband and I have gone to some HS reunions and missed some. We are from the same city but went to different high schools and currently live in the same city. Most of our high school friends were friends from the same youth group that we still see around town. The only people I really cared about seeing at the reunion are those that I see around, so I figured why bother. </p>
<p>I thought I remember most people from my high school class until the emails started coming to remind us of the upcoming reunion-there were names on there that I had never heard of! I decided if I didn’t know their names, there was no fire to go spend an evening with them for $100!</p>
<p>I attended my 25th HS reunion this summer! It was great!! Even though I did attend one of my college reunions, I agree with Rachaca that the HS ones are a lot more fun. It may be because our HS class was also very close and relatively small (180 people). I loved my college experience, but I mingled with kids from all the classes, so the reunion wasn’t as meaningful. I have enjoyed mini-reunions with my closest college friends over the years, however.</p>
<p>I went to a high school with 80 girls in the graduating class, 2/3 boarded and I boarded my last year there. I knew everyone in my class at least by name. Many I didn’t know well, I wish I had as I’ve gotten to know them at reunions. The women from other classes (especially the older ones) are a feisty interesting bunch. The activities - birding, zipwire, swimming, sharing poetry one year, a woman’s history presentation by the principal have generally been a lot of fun. I’ve only been to two college reunions - my own 25th and the following year my husband’s 25th. (Same college.) I enjoyed it, but really it was not nearly as much fun as the high school reunion. There were more seminars I wasn’t that interested in, more people I didn’t recognize. The Sat. night dance was the best part, but for some weird reason they thought we wanted oldies from the 50s instead of the 70s, what was up with that?</p>
<p>50 girls in my HS class so I love those reunions - fun, very bright, very accomplished women. Never been to college reunion. College population was 10000+ and I know exactly one person. We each introduced our best friends to each and they’ve been married for 20+ years. (In fact, my best friend is my friend from HS.)</p>
<p>My high school was the biggest in the state when I attended, and I was quite shy, so I didn’t really have many friends, but I have gone to the reunions (I go to the pizza night or picnic, not the banquet), and it is interesting to see what people are doing. I have gotten reacquainted with some people that way.</p>
<p>I have not gone to any college reunions, although I did go to a reunion of the theme house in which I lived for almost three years, and that was wonderful. Outside the house, I really didn’t know anyone–other than freshman roommates, so I haven’t felt any need to attend a class reunion.</p>
<p>Definitely High School. Although our graduation class was huge (650) it was still smaller than a college class. I wouldn’t even recognize a tiny percentage of my college class. I still keep in touch with a couple of high school classmates, see some around town and it’s nice to see what the others are up to. Any college friends I care about, I still see.</p>
<p>Definitely high school. Also from a girls school with 50 girls, along with our “coordinate” school of 120 guys. Very accomplished interesting women.</p>
<p>College … huge state school … have never been back to reunion although I’d like to plan a mini reunion with my roommate for this fall.</p>
<p>Since my H and I grew up in different cities, I greatly enjoyed going to his HS reunion at his nearby city. It helped fill in a gap of information about him, to hear them all yak about their city and old times together. Strangest for me was being in a huge room of hundreds of strangers, all exactly the same age! Also the fun of seeing my H’s face when his old buddy took out a wallet photo of his grandson, who was the same age as our son! </p>
<p>I live very far from the HS and city where I grew up. I’d love to know what’s going on with old friends, but every time a reunion comes, I’m heavily involved with something in my current life (or kids’). Ditto on college reunions, which are clustered by dates. </p>
<p>For the HS, I can’t justify the cost of flights and motel. So, it’s a lost thread. I might try to make it happen once in the next decade, however, just for curiosity. I wish they’d use the 'net or something to help those who moved away, but in that Southern city once you move, you’re off the radar screen.</p>
<p>College reunions interest me a lot. I had the privelege of visiting my D at our alma mater over the past 4 years and fell in love with that place all over again. Am considering retiring there someday in their new senior housing set-up, which serves exactly that purpose for alums or spouses of alums. So I’d put priority on going to a first reunion there, as a fun vacation sometime in the near future.</p>