<p>Our 30th college graduation anniversary is coming up early next year. A reunion date has been set and I just got my invitation e-mail. I have missed the previous two gatherings and was really looking forward to this one. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I am not sure what do you talk about with the people you have not met for 30 years for two days, other than weather, health, families? Most of them don’t really care about our world (US) and we know little about theirs. </p>
<p>I have never gone to any of mine. I feel like if I wanted to keep in touch with you then I would have. But then again, I’m in the generation of we all have facebook and texting and whatnot. I have recently had a few former high school friends on facebook send me friend requests and we have chatted a little bit about what has been going on over the past 10 years.</p>
<p>I haven’t been to any of my college reunions (went to a very big school) but I have been to my 10th (I was very pregnant) and 25th high school (not a lot of my close hs friends showed up). This year is my 30th high school and I have reconnected with a lot of old friends on facebook this year so I’m actually looking more forward to it.</p>
<p>I went to 10 and then we just had 40 last fall. Over the past 2 years many, many of us have reconnected via facebook and have had a few gatherings besides the reunion. I don’t live in the area, but I get back on a regular basis and have REALLY enjoyed these “new/old” friendships. Even people I hardly knew in high school have turned out to be lovely adults and fun online friends. It has been rewarding and awesome. As a result, our 40th reunion was very special and everyone had a blast. We had about 200 people there out of a graduating class of over 500. We have also had 4 deaths SINCE the reunion and many during the years prior. We are planning a collective “60th birthday party” which will be informal and lots of fun. I’m not sure exactly why our class has come together like this over the last 2 years. I would not have predicted it. I spent most of my adult life only in touch with 2 or 3 high school classmates, not it’s like we all never left! I find it very gratifying, but then I’m really into social networking.</p>
<p>I have not attended college reunions. I have attended some HS ones but I won’t go out of my way for it (they are in WA and I live in CA.) However, if I have enough advanced notice, I’ll combine a trip to see the family with the reunion. I have connected again with some former classmates via FB.</p>
<p>I went to my first college reunion and that was it, although I’ve been back to campus twice since I graduated long ago. Never returned to my high school. My 40th college reunion will be coming up in about two years and I may just go to that one. I still have all my hair, most of it has yet to turn gray, and I’m only a few pounds over my desired weight (easy enough to take off on short notice). I look pretty good for an old guy. Of course, if I suddenly balloon up or lose my hair I might reconsider, but right now I’m good to go.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t dream of going to a college reunion. There are exactly 5 people from college that I care about and I am married to one of them.</p>
<p>I went to my 25th HS reunion and swore I’d never attend another. However, like MOWC, I have reconnected with quite a few HS folks on Facebook so the upcoming 35th might be fun.</p>
<p>I go every 5 years and reconnect with the same group of classmates each time. We’re in sporadic email contact with each other in between, but live quite far apart, so this is a great chance to see everyone in person. Our spouses all enjoy the weekend as well. In fact, H loves my college reunions so much that we joke he looks forward to them even more than I do.</p>
<p>I give everyone (and follow) the same advice–go if it’s convenient, although keep your expectations low. I wouldn’t go very far out of my way to attend a hs or college reunion, but have made the effort when I could. I’ve always had a few moments of genuine fun (sometimes more).</p>
<p>Glad to see I’m not alone – I have never gone to HS or college reunion. The HS one (so I’ve heard) is a long boozy lunch where they not-so-subtly hit you up for money before dessert and coffee; college – would have loved to go to the 10th but was overly worried about who would care for D who was then only 20 months old. I think it’s a great idea if you have tons of friends who go back to every reunion.</p>
<p>I go to my high school and law school ones, starting from year 15 for law school and year 25 for high school. I like to hear about other people’s lives and to see how they’ve grown. Some of them have had very interesting times…</p>
<p>I remember at my 25th high school reunion, I was staring at a fellow…very handsome…looked like Sam Elliot. I couldn’t figure out who he was. I guess he saw me stare and came over. </p>
<p>“You can’t figure out who I am, can you? Well, think of the dorkiest looking senior photo of a guy in the yearbook.”</p>
<p>“JACK XXXX?!” I answered immediately.</p>
<p>“Yup.”</p>
<p>It would have been a lucky woman who could have seen the diamond in the rough he had been in high school…</p>
<p>^ great story ellemenope. When I attended my 10th high school reunion, eons ago, I was amazed at how some people who seemed so intimidatingly popular in high school were now just like everybody else.</p>
<p>Sorry. I read that as high school and not college. I would never go to a college reunion. I have reconnected with a few college friends on facebook, though. I am considering law school reunion.</p>
<p>I don’t go to my college reunions (big state school), but we did go to DH’s 25th and may go to his 30th this summer. We are close to a couple of his old roommates (and their wives), so the six of us spend the weekend together. The guys also enjoy seeing an old friend or two whom they have not kept up with. As it turned out, S1 is now a grad student where DH was an undergrad, so it’s also an opportunity to visit him.</p>
<p>I am contemplating attending my 30th hs reunion this summer. I have made contact with several former classmates via facebook in the last few years , some of which I would like to see…it depends on whether or not my friend who also lives out of state will go as my date , since neither of our husbands can or want to go. I did got to my 10th , but the people I really wanted to see didn’t make it , so I swore I wouldn’t do it again…my class didn’t have a lot of comraderie…I would have preferrred attending last year’s 30th :D</p>
<p>I don’t go to any of my reunions – I don’t even hear about them until they’re long gone. I’d be a lot more interested if it were multi-year – I had friends in other grades before & after us.</p>
<p>Maybe I just have low self esteem, when I read stuff like the following in my college alumni column I just don’t have the heart to go to reunions:</p>
<p>“[We] are proud to report that our eldest son X was admitted early to MIT! After X wraps up with school, he will remain here with us for one more year taking a gap year to finish writing and publishing his novels (a trilogy, contract already signed, so has to deliver), complete his symphony (first movement completed, to be performed at his high school graduation), record a CD with his band, and work as an assistant coach with his school tennis team.”</p>
<p>The above is a real cut-and-paste from the alumni column.</p>
<p>Have never been to a college reunion, but I’ve been to most of my high school reunions. I went to an all-girls Catholic high school and we have our reunions with our “brother” school, an all-boys Catholic school. </p>
<p>Many of my high school friends still keep in touch thru Facebook. Some of us also went to college together. Some of us went to K-8 together as well.</p>
<p>It seems that more people attend their HS reunion than their colleges. Come to think about it, that makes alot of sense. Universities here, especially the big ones, have really large classes.</p>
<p>When I was in college, the situation was rather different those of yours. We have a class of 42 students, each of us took the exactly the same classes in the same classroom for all 4 years. We all live in one dorm building and 6 ~ 8 of us in one room for all 4 years. As a matter of the fact, all the girls lived in one large room. </p>
<p>This is why we are very close per se.</p>
<p>However, this reunion requires us to fly all the way to China during the busiest national holiday. To spend that kind of $$ (we don’t have) for a two day party?? I am not so sure about that at this time.</p>
<p>I have been to all of my high school reunions (every 10 years…but now we are having them every five years because they are so much fun). My high school class had over a thousand students in it. Still…I would not miss these reunions. They are so much fun…and as years have gone by, we have found we have a lot more in common amongst all of the classmates than we might have thought years ago.</p>
<p>I have three friends I keep in touch with from college. Two, coincidentally, graduated from my high school!</p>