The Glade 4.0

Any anecdotes/advice regarding attending a class reunion would be most welcome. I am so indecisive. Thanks everyone!

Class reunions are where you brag about what you have done with your life. Do you have enough to brag about? Or are you going to be depressed after hearing how well the ten percent of the class that shows have done, even if you think half of it is fantasy?

If you want to renew contact with old friends from high school, try one of the social networking sites. If you've done well and feel you can hold your own with your classmates, then go.

These days the people going are also going to include those desperately looking for a job and figuring the ones who show might have vacancies to fill. They will be the ones seriously networking trying to get everyone's contact information.

Five years is too soon, ten years might still be too soon. Wait for fifteen or twenty and life to have shaken out a bit for everyone.

Of course if you're in charge of a Fortune 500 company, by all means go and try not to rub it into their faces.

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I didnt like any of the people in my high school... why would I want to see them again?

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/bonk

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Man that noise is satisfying.

If you are happy with yourself, then go. I went to mine.. met up with people I haven't seen in forever and enjoyed it. If it sucks you can always leave.. but you can never go back and do it again if you miss it.

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Hokanu
Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
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I vote with Crimsonum!

I have no advice because I wasn't cool enough to merit an invitation to mine.

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The Dude abides.

I re-located too many times and too far away to get invited to mine.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Didn't go to mine. I also subscribe to the "I didn't like those people then, why would I pay to see them again and listen to them brag about their stupid lives."

This. I was kicked out of my high school 4th quarter of my senior year for computer hijinx. I went any ways and had a blast.

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I didn't go to my 10th, don't plan to go to my 20th and if I see any of the sorry bastards again it will be too soon.

I made the mistake back in 2002 of giving hem my information for an alum directory, so this past winter they were bugging me by e-mail to update for the next one. Of course, that included things like "your information is due by..." as if I still were a student there.

I didn't update it. I was tempted to send a nasty e-mail back but since it was some company doing it for the school it sadly would never be seen by them.

I'd say screw your reunion. High school is worthless. The only thing you get out of it is what you need to get a job or into college. Beyond that it's one unending, pointless social scene. If the **** place got burned to the ground I'd go there and piss on the ashes.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I blew off my 35th. If I had wanted to keep in touch with over 1,000 people I didn't know and a handful I did I would have done it.

What's interesting is, my current boss was a graduate of the same high school that I attended, one year later than me. We never heard of each other before I started working for her.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Where'd you go to high school? Overpopulation, USA?? I mean, sheesh, 1000 kids in your graduating class? That's insane. Not surprised you wouldn't have known your future boss.

I guess my 30th was a couple of years ago. Absolutely no desire to travel across the country for that. I don't think they liked me much back then, can't imagine what they'd think now.

So, still thinking of going, OrbErb? Oh, and /bonk

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
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I dunno Aethien, Palmdale HS down near you in SoCal has 4000+ students, and the town is only, what 150,000 people? It's not unusual for schools to get that large when they are the main school in the city.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

In 1970 the school system was being revamped in my area. Old schools were being closed (they were too small to serve the population) and I was one of the first to be bussed over an hour away to a district where a new mega school was recently built.

I went from a grade school graduation class of about 28 to a freshman class of about 1500. Kinda shocking, really.

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In time, this too shall pass.

I had a blast at me 10 and 20. I sae go...all the old cliquishness was surprisinglee and amazinglee gone. But of course ior school mae be different.

Guess which letter is busted on me keeboard.

I went at 10, it was alright. Very few of the people I wanted to see came. Give it a shot, aim low and be happy if you had a good time.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Wow, I guess. I had a similar thing where I went from a private school with 120 kids, to a public high school with 1200 kids. And I thought that was huge.

(And, Palmdale's a pit!)

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

The people in my graduating class... I still talk to a few of them. The others sucked, and I shared DEs opinion on them.

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