High school vs. College

Dionysus · #1 10-11-2002, 10:10 AM

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?

AOX81 · #2 10-11-2002, 10:15 AM

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.

librasoul22 · #3 10-11-2002, 10:16 AM

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.

sororitygirl2 · #4 10-11-2002, 10:17 AM

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).

Optimist Prime · #5 10-11-2002, 10:24 AM

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

Kevin · #6 10-11-2002, 11:03 AM

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Originally posted by Dionysus
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. 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.

KappaKittyCat · #7 10-11-2002, 11:56 AM

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.

jonsagara · #8 10-11-2002, 02:22 PM

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1.How are you different?

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.

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2.How are you the same?

I'm still fun to hang out with.

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

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

aephi alum · #9 10-11-2002, 05:48 PM

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...!

LeslieAGD · #10 10-11-2002, 06:24 PM

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.

Shine · #11 10-11-2002, 08:28 PM

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.

Dionysus · #12 10-11-2002, 08:59 PM

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.

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!

carnation · #13 10-11-2002, 09:11 PM

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Originally posted by Dionysus
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?

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!

juniorgrrl · #14 10-12-2002, 12:48 AM

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

ROWDYsister · #15 10-12-2002, 01:03 AM

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!