High school vs. College
 

1.How are you different?

2.How are you the same?

3.For the younger people, are planning on attending your reunion?

4.For the umm...mature people, did you attend your reunion? How did it go?

1. & 2. I don't think that I've changed at all.

3. We didn't have a 5 year reunion, hopefully we'll have a 10 year reunion in 2004. If we have one I plan on attending.

4. Haven't been to one yet.

1. WAY different. Just more open to new experiences and also I have met people that have definitely broadened my knowledge of other cultures and ways of life.

2. Still have the same personality. Laid back, honest, and inquisitive. Also, luckily for me, I have stayed in shape...I was an athelete in high school.

3. Yeah, I'll go. I went to a lower class public school, and I want to see how many people made it out.

1) I am more confident (and have more reason to be so).

2) I am still a total girly-girl.

3) Yes, I will go to my reunions (6 years until my first one though).

My highschool renunion? Hopefully I will be on the otherside of the country.

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1. In HS I was actually a 'stereotypical' nerd... I was even president of the computer club. So I guess you'd say I was a leader amongst nerds or whatever... I wouldn't classify myself as that now. College gave me the opportunity to rethink things a bit. I didn't like where I was -- so I changed it. I'm now pretty much one of those "all-american" guys... I'm actually quite a bit happier now. My interpersonal skills have improved (a lot) and I actually care about things now. I'm altogether a happier person.

2. I still retain a lot of the same personality traits that I had back then. They're just brought out in different ways.

3. I'm not going to my reunion.. I went to two different HS's and care little for either one.

1. I'm confident now. I actually like myself. I'm much more open and tolerant, and I've loosened up quite a bit about things that would have freaked me out in high school. Not to mention that I'm about 40 pounds heavier... but working on that!

2. I still have my moments of insecurity. I also still have my whole "I have to be the most important person on the scene" thing, but I know when I'm doing it now and I can knock it off if I feel it start to happen. Generally, I like most of the same stuff, I have many of the same personality traits, and I still remember all sorts of random, anachronistic stuff.

3. Absolutely not going to my reunion. Not five years. It's too close and I'm still bitter about a lot of things. Funny how in #1 I talked about how I'm more confident, open, and tolerant now, and then I turn right around and say that I'm bitter and don't want to go to my reunion. But I know that the five-year will just be everybody doing their best to show off for everybody else. "See how far I've come? See how amazing I am now?" These people didn't care about me at all in high school. I'm still friends with the ones that matter; they're the ones who've changed right along with me as we've grown together. I don't need a reunion to remind me about my friends. Going to this reunion would be an opportunity to hang out with people who didn't even notice me in high school and people I didn't even notice in high school, just so we can all pretend that we were best friends back in the day for an evening's walk down memory lane. No, thank you. Maybe I'll do ten years. Hopefully I'll at least be able to handle twenty.

I used to be staunchly conservative. I'm definitely more open-minded these days.

I didn't know a thing about computers. Now I have a degree in computer engineering.

I used to play competitive sports. Now I just work out to stay in shape.

I'm still fun to hang out with. :D

We'll see... most likely, yes.

1. I gained a lot more self-confidence in college, and became - if not exactly outgoing - certainly a lot less quiet.

2. I don't think I was really the same at all... maybe senior year of HS vs. freshman year of college... but I changed a lot in college.

3. I wouldn't give most of my high school acquaintances the time of day. I don't think we had a 5-year reunion. If we have a 10-year reunion, I might go, if only to network - maybe some of my HS acquaintances have actually (gasp!) MATURED...!

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1.How are you different?
I'm a lot more blunt. I don't sugar coat who I am.

2.How are you the same?
I'm still the person people come to with their problems.

3.For the younger people, are planning on attending your reunion?
Not my five year reunion, maybe the ten...depends where I am in my life.

1. I'm very different. A lot of personal stuff has happened in my life. It's weird. I'm less snotty, more compassionate. I dress different.

2. I'm still shy around guys.

3. I'll go to my 10 year. I know there's no way I'll be ready for my 5 year.

1.
HC-Very sassy
C-Much more laid back and mellowed out

HC-Pretty snotty
C-Much more open minded and humble

HC-Extremely liberal
C-Mildly liberal or centrist

HC-Die hard feminist
C-Barely feminist

HC-Dressed like a guy
C-Dress more like a girl (still doesn't wear dresses)

HC-No social graces
C-social graces mproving each minute

2.
I'm still shy around guys too.
Still blunt.
Still look good. :p
Still nice (when I decide to put my guard down)
Still a clown.
Still a tom-boy at heart

3.Definately looking forward to my 10-year reunion in 2009!

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You guys, this is a good thread but I want you to ask yourself the same questions several years after you're OUT of college. I changed a bunch between high school and college--mostly gaining in confidence--but then I changed so much in many ways throughout the post-college years. I expect when I'm in my seventies, I'll look back at 2002 and think, "Boy, how naive I was! " (Or clueless, or whatever.)

As for the reunions--I missed the tenth because it happened at the time of my wedding and the twentieth and thirtieth because I was hugely pregnant and it was too far to travel. Yes, you can be pregnant when you have your 30th reunion!:eek:

1.) I haven't done theater in 5 years - in High School, I was in at least 1 play a year - and I miss it! I've also become a lot more confident, a lot more sure of the fact that I'm cool - its everyone else that sucked ;)

2.) I have the same boyfriend (at least from senior year) and a few of the same friends. I also wear the same size clothes - not many people I went to school with can say that :) I've stayed a steady size 8/10 - so many people I know ballooned up from their size 2s - and are still growing.

3.) My 5 year is coming up in 2003 - I'll probably go. It'll be nice to see how a lot of people are doing, who is successful (although I can predict). Plus, I want to show up and show off that my boy and I are still together :)

Different...I'm friendlier with everyone, no one has told me at college that I seem stuck up (in high school people who had yet to meet me thought I was snobby).

Same...I'm always in trouble. I'm the bubbly one. Laidback.

High school reunion? For sure. I can't wait to see how (or if) everyone's changed! :D

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1. I'm not shy anymore. I speak what's on my mind. I've often been told that I'm very harsh. Oh well. I call em' like I see em'. Oh, I've grown about 1&1/2 inches

2. I'm still an athlete and still not married :)

4. Thank God we didn't have a 5 year. I think they're a waste of time. I wouldn't have gone anyway however, I did attend my 10 year. It was interesting. Think of Romy and Michelle's HS reunion. The "beautiful" people got fat, the class sweethearts are divorced (with kids :(), all of the ugly ducklings (including me) grew up into beautiful swans, we had one guy go pro football but got cut. He was 4th string anyway. I was pretty much a loner in HS so I didn't really have a clique to hang out with. I just hung out with kids from different cliques plus I kept myself busy with the band, cheerleading, track, cross country, and other stuff. I think I will go to my 20th. It couldn't hurt.

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Soooo true. In my 20s and in my 30s so far I've changed WAYT MORE than I did between high school and college. Your 20s especially, you change so much. I had fun, but no way in hell would I want to be in my 20s again, no way no how. 30s are SO MUCH better... I hope the same holds true with my 40s and beyond...that it just keeps getting better and better.

1.How are you different?
well i've gone greek.. and once you go greek you'll never go back ;) i've also calmed down a little bit. i was kind of over the top excessive for a while

2.How are you the same?
i've maintained my cheerful nature, my optimism, and i look almost exactly the same. :) i also have many of the same interests.

3.For the younger people, are planning on attending your reunion? helllllll yes, i wanna see how my friends and acquantances have changed :)

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1) To try to answer this question would take forever. Let's just say she is a stranger to me.

2) I still have my wacky sense of humor, my love of writing and acting, and close relationship with my mom.

3 and 4) 10 year reunion was last year. Didn't go

1). I am infinitely happier now than I was in HS. I had a lot of difficulties that I didn't realize made me unhappy (even though I appeared to be) until I was truly happy.
I'm also not ashamed to call myself a liberal (I got SOOO much hell from teachers and classmates alike, so I ended up calling myself conservative to fit in).
I'm probably healthier. See above, and I started playing sports in college.
I don't speak to anyone with whom I graduated from HS with. We had a graduating class of 40 and things got weird after graduation.

2). I'm about the same size/height, and my hair's the same.

3). If there was a 5th--oh no! I think I'll have distanced myself from everyone's drama and social issues enough to enjoy it.

(1) I don't think I'm a lot different than I was in my later high school years (then again, I'm only a college sophomore, so I've got a lot of time to change!), although I'm quite a bit different than I was when I started high school. My biggest changes came in the last two years of high school, not so far in college. But here are some differences between high school and college:

In high school I never drank.
I have more self-confidence now.
I'm more open-minded now.
I'm emotionally healthier (I had a bunch of issues with eating disorders/depression/that kind of thing in high school.)
I don't run much anymore (though I wish I did) -- I do a ton of walking and I play soccer and sometimes work out, but I wish I still had the motivation to run.

(2) I am still basically the same person -- very optimistic/positive person, extroverted, etc. My basic personality traits are the same.

(3) Definitely -- I think it would be so fun to see how everybody turns out.

1.) I've grown up since I've been at college. Living by yourself and having to manage your moeny really makes ya grow up fast.

2.) I'm still fun-loving and goofy. My personality hasn't changed.

3.) I dont think we'll have a reunion...my graduating class had 47 kids in it.