Any Med Students or Residents go to 10 HS Reunion

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OP, that's pathetic that that happened. HS reunions ought to be about seeing everyone, not just a clique gathering of the popular kids. If I organized it, I'd use my yearbook and make sure I tracked down each person. The fact that you weren't invited speaks to the quality of the organizer and you should be glad you didn't have to show up to what was probably a toxic reunion.
 
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I didn't know the requirements to be invited are due to your past social status. I thought the only requirement to be invited would have been a graduate of said school.

Regardless, OP brush it off and remember this when the school contacts you for your much needed donation. I've thought about writing a few checks for 0 dollars and 0 cents just to let my feelings be known.
 
Goro said:
I went to my tenth and was surprised at how all the guys got fat and bald, and the women all got beautiful. Still holds true after #25.
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I feel like everyone from my high school I've come across got married and fat except my friends, who all got married and swole. That could have been my destiny, had only I stayed in that lame-ass town.
 
Mad Jack said:
I feel like everyone from my high school I've come across got married and fat except my friends, who all got married and swole. That could have been my destiny, had only I stayed in that lame-ass town.
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I don’t have Facebook anymore, but I’m in my early 30s. I would occasionally look up friends from high school that I don’t talk to anymore, and I would end up not messaging them because they just seemed like they’ve really gone nowhere and done nothing. It’s kind of depressing. They are all still there holding on to their dreams and just waiting for something to happen to them rather than making it happen themselves.
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
I don’t have Facebook anymore, but I’m in my early 30s. I would occasionally look up friends from high school that I don’t talk to anymore, and I would end up not messaging them because they just seemed like they’ve really gone nowhere and done nothing. It’s kind of depressing. They are all still there holding on to their dreams and just waiting for something to happen to them rather than making it happen themselves.
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A few people made it out, don't get me wrong. But most of em, yeah, they're like that.
 
Mad Jack said:
A few people made it out, don't get me wrong. But most of em, yeah, they're like that.
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I’m the only one who’s married I think. One other guy has a kid, but he had the kid really young unplanned. I feel like I’d have nothing to talk about with them.
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
I’m the only one who’s married I think. One other guy has a kid, but he had the kid really young unplanned. I feel like I’d have nothing to talk about with them.
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Out of my friends, I'm the only one that isn't married, because, well, I'm divorced lol. One of these days I might just sign up for part deux. But my friends- one became a preacher, went to Vegas, found himself a wife, went back. Another joined the Air force, traveled the world, gave it up, got a job in tech I think, and went back. Another got a degree in history after being thrown out of school as a kid for making a "violent" flash animation, now he's a history teacher because irony is great. And the last one ended up a super gay lawyer that hated law so became a code monkey that lives in Chicago.
 
mine was scheduled in mid-winter in Michigan. There was a giant snowstorm during it. I obviously did not make the trip.
 
Mine would of cost $34 to attend. And out of 400 something people, only 90 people that I had no clue who they were said they would be attending (on facebook). So nope. I felt that my dollars would be better spent elsewhere.
 
my graduating class had 650 students
our reunion only had 50 attendees (basically the AP students and jocks)
it was at a bar,
it was pretty lame.
no one seemed that amped,
those intimate connections we collectively shared as teenagers were just gone, nonexistent
it was as if we were just meeting each other for the first time.
it was boring and if you didnt go you didnt miss anything
 
I still can't tell if this is a troll account or not...
 
I wouldn't give a damn, probably won't go if I got invited, and I'm only a couple years out of HS, thought HS was great when I was there; but have now seen the real world and I've happily left almost everyone behind.
 
I was invited to mine, but it was the day after Thanksgiving and I had to work on Sunday (I live about an 8 hour drive from where I went to high school). And it would've cost something a bit ridiculous, like $60-70 in addition to travel and hotel. So, I opted not to go. I also haven't really kept in touch with people from high school (I'm friends with several on facebook and vaguely know what they are doing now, but it's not like we talk regularly), and feel like I'm at a different point in my life than most of them (going to a southern high school, most of them are married with kids).
 
lawrencewellsbourne said:
my graduating class had 650 students
our reunion only had 50 attendees (basically the AP students and jocks)
it was at a bar,
it was pretty lame.
no one seemed that amped,
those intimate connections we collectively shared as teenagers were just gone, nonexistent
it was as if we were just meeting each other for the first time.
it was boring and if you didnt go you didnt miss anything
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That was how mine was set up as well. I didn't go since I was OOS for residency and did not feel like making the trip. They rented out bar space with our school colors plastered around the area.

I feel bad for your friend OP, but it's all good, he/she may not have missed out on anything
 
failedatlife said:
Thank you all for your support. My friend truly appreciates it! And yes, there were at least two 7/10s, two 8/10s and one absolute dime...all single apparently. Truly unfortunate for my friend...
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"Friend."
 
failedatlife said:
Thank you all for your support. My friend truly appreciates it! And yes, there were at least two 7/10s, two 8/10s and one absolute dime...all single apparently. Truly unfortunate for my friend...
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Protests at how med students shouldn't be ranked/defined by a score.

Proceeds to rank/define women by a score.
 
I was on call the weekend of my 10th HS reunion. So, while they were doing whatever they were doing, I was taking care of people. Could I have gone? Yes. I mean I do make the call schedules... But, I'm pretty sure I had more fun on call than I would have flying across the country to see people that I didn't bother keeping in contact with for 10 years and then hopping on a plane to come back to my life as it is now.
 
My ten year will be sometime soon I guess (graduated in 08). I will definitely not be making any effort whatsoever to go since I live across the country now. If it happens to be a time I'm back home, like day after Thanksgiving, I'll think about it but meh. The only people I'd be interested in seeing have much more interesting lives going on than a high school reunion.
 
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ghostzebra12 said:
OP don't worry about it. When you are big shot family medicine doctor in South Dakota, they will be begging for you to come to the 20 year reunion.
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Funny thing is, by pretty much all definitions an FM doc in South Dakota would probably be considered a big shot.
 
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