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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users
One of my neighbors growing up was that super motivated Type A do everything types. Co-valedictorian, captain of the hockey team, gifted musician...just always working.

10 year reunion, went just how we all expected. Full ride to Yale, Harvard MBA, six figure Wall Street job, gorgeous fiance...and he seemed utterly miserable.

10 years later, 20th reunion. He got sick of it all, quit his job, sold his house, got divorced, and got out of town. He now owns a pig farm in Upstate New York, spends his days working the farm, brewing beer, and hiking in the forest...and I've never met a happier, more satisfied person in my life.

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users mega obese quiet kid (so huge everyone just exempted him from cruel remarks etc) - lost hundreds of pounds and also ended up being fabulously gay - showed up with his sassy little boyfriend -- i was so happy for him

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"I stay in touch with some students—social media has made this a lot easier—and there are a few I meet with in person, either to touch base as a mentor or just to catch up," Professor McLendon, from the University of Kansas, shared with Bored Panda.

"A few have gone into teaching, either full-time or part-time, which is always nice to see," she told us that some of her students have followed in her footsteps.

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users My boyfriend went to his 10 year over the weekend. Saw this woman he didn't know. Turned out to be one of his old football buddies... So, I'd say that was a very big transformation.

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Not 10 but 5.

This kid that everyone made a scapegoat in high school is LOADED.
He was the kid that certain groups would pretend to be friends with and then do something horrible to him as a "joke" like depantsing him in front of the whole lunch room or teasing him about his small d**k till he cried (not sure if he actually had one or not just high school a**holes being a**holes)

Turns out that he won some sort of contest/scholarship thing for this space engineering idea and ended up going to school in California for free. I guess he worked super hard and was able to graduate a year early and now is just like rich as f**k working for some sort of space engineering thing that works closely with NASA.

It was funny listening to all the people who use to make fun of him just listen to his life story with their mouths hanging wide open. He has no debt, owns a beautiful home in California and another "cabin" home in our home state (MN), drives beautiful cars, hangs out with beautiful people. All at the ripe age of 24. You could practically smell the jealousy. Plus he brought his smoking hot gf.

It made me so happy for him :)

anon , Ruthson Zimmerman Report

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users On the flip side I know someone who hasn't aged since high school. No extra fat, no wobbles, no gray hair, nothing. Even his voice is the same at thirty as it was at fourteen. I'm pretty sure he's a vampire.

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Bored Panda wanted to get the professor's opinion on what educators can do to encourage their students to aim for the stars, and how to pick up their spirits if they haven't (yet) achieved what they set out to after graduation.

According to Professor McLendon, there are two parts to inspiring students to aim high. "One, give them a solid foundation to build their skills and knowledge on, so they’ll be able to succeed at whatever they choose to pursue," she said.

"Two, give them support and encouragement—and the benefit of your own network, if possible—to help them get where they want to be," she explained what educators can do.

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Twin sisters. The good one straight A student and a perfect angel is now 90 pounds soaking wet and just finished her 4th stint in rehab for drugs. The one who was a trouble maker and constantly in trouble even arrested a few times for drugs and shop lifting while in high school, is a doctor with a family.

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users I used to pass notes to a guy in Algebra class... mostly song lyrics. I'd write a line pass it to him, he'd write a line, back and forth. He was a quiet kid and friends with some other friends of mine who were big into BMX bikes and skateboards. I took a bunch of photos of these guys for my photography class. At graduation, he said he was heading to California to ride BMX. He never came to a reunion... he was too busy playing rhythm guitar in Guns N Roses as Izzy Stradlin.

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users One girl who sat next to me in English class in junior and senior year. Thick coke bottle glasses, a bird's nest of thick curly hair. She was always very nice and very smart, but super quiet and introverted.

I was an extroverted, outgoing jacka** so I used to ask her to read parts when we studied Shakespeare, invited her into my group for group projects and made her take speaking roles, that kind of thing. She was never really comfortable talking about herself and we never hung out outside of class, so I left school not knowing much about her except that she was smart, quick to grin at a joke, and had strong feelings about "The Crucible".

Ten years later, this gorgeous woman shows up at our reunion. Smoking hot redhead, sparkling blue eyes, stacked hourglass figure. That goofy teenage grin had turned into a confident, knowing smile. She knew how to dress and make herself up to emphasize her assets and minimize her flaws. She was jaw-droppingly stunning.

We talked for a good hour. She was just a late bloomer. I apologized for always volunteering her for public speaking and she said it was one of the things that made her start to confront her shyness. She ended up going to an ivy league school and became a journalist, of all things.

We still chat from time to time.

Edit: no, we didn't bang. I was happily engaged by my 10 year reunion and well settled into my career. She lived in Africa on assignment from a wire service. We were in very different places in our lives and I was and am happy to count her as a friend.

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Meanwhile, if someone feels like they still haven't lived up to their potential after graduating, the support and encouragement they get from their former professors or teachers can really help.

"Lots of people don’t get there right away, or end up somewhere else completely, and if students see how others have navigated their career paths, it helps instill some patience and also an openness to other possible pathways," the professor told us.

Whether we like it or not, we’re social animals. We need other people and their approval to feel good. We’re hardwired for communication and cooperation. That, at least in part, explains why some individuals might feel apprehensive about going to their high school reunions. They might think that who they are now won’t leave a positive enough impression on their former classmates.

You might not be where you imagined yourself when you were back in school. Or you might feel embarrassed about how you look, the choices you’ve made. Some people might even feel that they haven’t changed at all over the years. Or that they’re not as ‘cool’ as they were when they were a teenager. In short, we think it’s fair to say that nearly everyone wants to leave a positive impression. Bold, beautiful, successful, witty, and charming—that’s what we want to be seen as.

#10

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users My husband and I went to the same high school but met years later. He was the football player all the girls wanted in bed and all the guys wanted to be with. I was the one people threw against lockers and treated like trash. When my reunion came around, one of the girls I had kept in contact with asked me to help with the website, so I said what the hell. When we showed up, quite a few people asked why he was there. He had graduated 2 years earlier. He said he was with his wife and just and took his seat. I walked in and took a seat as they were thanking those who helped with the reunion. When they announced my name, people looked around slightly confused. I stood, like the others and you could hear a pin drop. Apparently I changed quite a bit in that ten years. My husband raised his glass and smiled again. It was awesome.

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#11

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users One kid was fairly small, quiet and goofy. Nice kid, but nothing too special about him. We hung out a few times at speech/drama tournaments.

I had wondered what happened to him. Turns out he grew quite a lot and became quite popular. His acting career took him far. He's been in several huge films, including X-Men.

We knew him as Jimmy. Today he goes by a more mature name of James - James Marsden.

I hope he's still a cool, goofy guy deep down that I remember from the few times we hung out.

TexasScooter , wikipedia Report

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#12

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users This guy was poor. Nice kid, but really poor. Only owned 2 shirts and 1 pair of pants. People always donated clothes to school to give to family. Dirty, needed groomed, overall looked homeless. You know how most kids are, mean about it, but he was cool.

Millionaire. Has started and sold quite a few businesses and is overall very successful. Invests in lots of real estate now.

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The irony, of course, is that everyone’s so worried about their own self-image that they don’t really notice the things that we’re worried about. (Though, on the flip side, people really do gossip over the smallest flaws, too. But there’s no way that you can eradicate gossip without taking away what makes our species ‘human’ in the first place. And... gossip can actually have some benefits, too, like encouraging cooperation and helping 'reform' mean individuals.)

We think that it’s best to… just be yourself. If you’re happy, if you feel that you’re successful based on what’s most important to you, then that’s wonderful. But don’t skip out on your school reunion just because you think someone might not like your haircut or suit. You never know, it might be a lot of fun catching up with the people who used to be your friends. And it’s the perfect opportunity to act goofy and childlike for an evening.

One pet peeve of ours is that no matter how successful we are, the moment we walk into that reunion, someone is bound to start reminiscing about the good old days and sharing a ton of embarrassing stories that you’d rather forget. You know, Pandas, the kind of stuff you suddenly remember when you’re showering or when you go get a glass of water at 5 o’clock in the morning. Thanks, Chad, thanks for reminding everyone of the time Jim puked after eating a bad taco. You too, Stacy, you’re just wonderful for bringing up the story about how Alice got spooked on the stage and started stuttering. Brilliant…

#13

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Me, actually.

I was this weird punk-ish nerd that none of the boys would even look at, let alone ask on a date. I had a girlstache and no boobs. And besides that, I was the only poor kid in an expensive school (yay scholarships).

10 years later, I'm hot. Pardon my lack of modesty, but I look really good, and I bought the boobs I wanted. I dress well, I speak 3 languages, and I'm one of the few who has a college degree and a steady job in my area. I'm living by myself and paying all my bills while most still live with their parents and use their money at almost 30.

Suck it, you bunch of bullies.

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#14

This girl, let's call her Jane, was always very quiet. She was never picked on, but that's because she was mostly ignored. She wrote lots of poetry and read lots of books and I never heard her talk in school outside of English class. She started smoking cigarettes and drinking when she was a teen, but she didn't like parties with lots of people. The few times I talked to her it was always about how terrible parents were or how terrible God is or how terrible the government is. She was thin and pretty too, and my friend dated her briefly, but he said he couldn't deal with her anger.

Flash forward I see her again. She put on a ton of weight. Like a ton. I thought "oh great now she has body issues on top of her other issues. Poor girl." But I talked to her and she was so happy.

She got a job writing for a travel blog and she gets to go all over the country. She came out as a lesbian and I saw pictures of her and her partner's travels. She quit drinking and she's been sober for a few years now. She's very open about her struggles with her identity, alcohol, and depression that date all the way back to high school.

So physical and mental state she had a huge transformation. And I'm glad she found a happy ending.

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#15

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Tough, bada** football player with shaved head, nicknamed "Iceman". Came to the reunion a skinny, long-haired hippy/yogi and sporting one of the happiest smiles I've ever seen. I like to think he finally figured out who he really was.

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It’s probably a question of ‘when,’ not ‘if’ someone’s going to bring up your past. And even though our instincts might yell at us to cringe and shy away, it’s best to do the opposite. Lean into the embarrassment. Embrace it. Laugh it off. Show everyone you’re having fun. Ironically, this is what’s going to make people love you more: accepting your flaws, not trying to pretend you never had any.

Vanessa Bohns, an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University, explained to Bored Panda during an interview for a previous article that not hiding our embarrassment helps us connect with people better.

“Displaying signs of mild embarrassment can actually be socially constructive and make people feel more sympathetic towards you in the face of your faux pas. I don’t necessarily think you need to take pains to hide it,” she told us that others value honesty and being genuine.

#16

Nobody changed at all.

I left Ireland three days after my leaving cert, and happened to move back a month before the reunion party. I hadn't seen a single person in the 10 intervening years, and everyone was basically *the exact same person* as they had been in school. Better-dressed, more confident, less awkward - but essentially the exact same people.

I had been dreading it, because I was never a popular kid in school - but it actually felt wonderful to be among those people again. After high school, you never really get to know anyone that well again. Add that to me having spent 10 years being an immigrant in various places, and that made re-connecting with these people extra sweet. All of the people with massive chips on their shoulders - they didn't show up. So the only people who were there were the ones who were as excited as I was.

There was one kid who changed massively, but he didn't come to the reunion. In school, he was the most dyslexic kid, worst at math, bottom of every class. His only love was making home-made bombs on his farm and blowing s**t up with them. He went to a college in Cornwall or Wales or something, that specialised in mining - because he figured that way he could work with explosives.

So fast-forward almost ten years, and I am finally getting my bachelor's degree. I took a bit longer than most people do, but I had just got the results from my last few exams and I had finally passed. I was basking in that elation when my phone rang and it's this guy. He just got his PhD for building a f*****g robot that goes into mines and fires f*****g lasers everywhere to make a 3D scan of the mine without endangering any humans. He built a robot with lasers on it. And had a PhD.

Way to take the wind out of my sails, James.

Porrick , Ecaterina Madeline Report

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RedditNmethodMan , Tani Eisenstein Report

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users There was a guy in my class that was a big meathead and was known to be a huge bully and womanizer. He is now an easy-going artist that hugs everyone and has a very zen demeanor. At our 10 year reunion, he told me how excited he was to atone and let everyone know that he has changed. I thought it was incredibly touching and my respect for him is fully restored.

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#18

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users I saw me go from being a daily smoked-out stoner who breezed through each year of high school with average grades to a middle school science teacher who last year received teacher of the year honors. I bet they never saw that coming. B***hes.

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By accepting our feelings of embarrassment and awkwardness, we also put a stop to them morphing into feelings of shame.

“What you want to be careful not to do is to let embarrassment morph into the more destructive self-conscious emotion of shame, where you feel so badly about a minor mistake that you start to think there is something wrong with you and feel the need to completely disappear and hide away yourself,” Vanessa said.

#19

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users The kid who was stealing motorcycles and selling them for parts is now a police officer. He was never accused or convicted of course but I knew that for a fact.
Let's hope people sometimes *do* change.

ptcptc , Jacky Lam Report

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#20

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Probably my wife (although we just had our 20 year reunion a couple years ago). We both went to middle and high school together, knew each other in a friendly way, you know, say hi when you pass in the hallway, but nothing more than that. Fast forward about 12 years, and I went on a blind date after coming off a glorious summer of bachelorhood. I saw her standing outside the bar, waiting for me, and I can still see it like it was yesterday. I kept on thinking, nah, this can't be her, I had seen a couple pictures but I was like this girl is drop dead gorgeous.

We hit it off that night, and within a couple weeks we were dating. About a month after that first date, we were talking about where we went to school, and she mentioned that she went to the same high school I had. So I asked her what year she graduated and lo and behold, it was the same year as me. "What middle school did you go to?" I asked. Once again, same as mine. She had our high school yearbook from our senior year in her closet, so she brought it out and we looked up our pictures. "Wait a second, you're <so and so>?". I was in shock, in high school she was someone that was bullied on a lot because of her looks. But here I was looking at this gorgeous blonde, who was just stunning. We brought out her middle school year book, and that is when it pretty much hit us that fate had brought us together. There, in faded yellow marker, she had highlighted my name. The only boy in our entire class that she highlighted was mine. We still don't really know why, but she did, and it was the like the God of Fates opened up the clouds and sent a beam of light upon us.

The best part was, my nickname starts with "Crazy". I was a party animal, but I was getting near 30, and I had been dating/hanging/whatever many a crazy chick over the last 10 years. All of them were pretty big into the party life themselves. She however, was grounded. She had a good job, dressed way above my pay grade at the time, and just was a good person that had a good family. She turned my life around, and while it hasn't all been roses, we have now been married for close to 10 years and have two wonderful kids. And most importantly, I still look at her almost every day and think how lucky I am to have such a beautiful woman, both inside and out.

P.S. When she first joined Facebook way back in the day, I was already on it and had a lot of friends from high school. I made a post linking to her Facebook and just said, hey, if you remember <so and so>, we got married a few years ago so she needs some friends on here. My post was inundated with posts from high school friends, "that is <so and so>!!", "wow <so and so> you look so different", "No way that is <so and so>", including some of the very people that bullied her when she was younger. I am extremely proud of my wife for the woman that she is, both to myself and our kids. And I'm even more proud to know that this girl that grew up getting bullied because of her looks got the last laugh.

OneOfALifetime , Wedding Dreamz Report

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#21

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users There was a girl in my class who was not comfortable in her body. She acted like a boy, talked like a boy, and always wanted to do boy things. She got made fun of. A lot. Meanly. Kids are a**holes.

I went to elementary through 12th with her, so I knew her for a long time. I'd call her my friend, mostly because we were always nice to each other, but we never saw each other out of school.

10-year comes and now he's living life as a man. Not everyone from my podunk little school saw this as a good thing (mostly the ones who still live in our home town), but most of us were happy for him.

He's on Facebook now (my 10-year was just as Facebook was spilling into the masses) and is confident and is a regular person, comfortable in his skin. Just living life.

RevMen , Hannah Busing Report

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#22

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Definitely the smelly kid. He wasn't actually smelly, but the routine beatings and teasing definitely took the toll on this guy. He was just...non-functionally weird.

He apparently blossomed in college and ended up in law school. He became a lawyer for abused women, doing orders of protection and whatnot. He said his motivation was to stand up to bullies, so that no one had to endure what he did.

The next year I got laid off due to budget cuts and opened up my own law firm, which failed. My life's back to being in the s**tter, but the reunion stands out as my high water mark.

Mackntish , Pavel Danilyuk Report

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#23

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users A dude that I saw drop acid in class on multiple occasions had become a youth preacher. The girl voted best looking had become a chain-smoking drunk who had somehow aged 30 years in a decade. The goth girl that I would sometimes smoke weed and talk about John Waters movies with had become some kind of Stepford wife.

A lot of people seemed genuinely shocked that I hadn't been stabbed to death in a back alley somewhere. Never realized I had such a reputation in high school :S

DelbertDumbbutt , Mark Neal Report

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Hot girl who made fun of fat girls was 300 lbs easy.

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Two [passed away], one became disabled after a car accident, a couple of them came out as gay, one became a super successful entrepreneur and HEAPS got really fat.

Meanwhile, I got a haircut.

El_Raro , Engin Akyurt Report

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users I knew guy who failed all his math courses and had me tutor him in math then he became a mathematician guess I was a great teacher

yolomaster2000 , Lum3n Report

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#27

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users It's only been 5 years since I graduated and one of the girls in my class is a freaking rocket engineer. Working for nasa.

Like what. She used to cry about that douchebag she was dating. We did yoga in PE and talked about stupid highschool girl things.

And to think if I'd actually seriously applied myself It would have been possible for me too. good on her.

OneBlueberry , Laurenz Heymann Report

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#28

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users The most popular and best-looking girl (biggest b***h, really) in my class weighed about 220 and was pregnant with kid #5. From head cheerleader on her way to UW, to college dropout stay-at-home mom. I probably *could* have enjoyed seeing that more, but I'm not sure how off the top of my head.

johnnyseattle , Leah Kelley Report

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#29

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users One girl I went to high school with is now a guy I went to high school with. It's an all girls school.

senefen , Ron Lach Report

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anonymous_potato , Philip Myrtorp Report

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Skinny nerdy guy got busted for selling a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of adobe software in college and spent 15 months in prison. He came out super buff.

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Matthew. He was so small and... pasty. Made white bread look like toast and weighed ~100 pounds when I had last seen him. Barely stood 5'6". He had joined the army, and somebody gave him the Captain America Serum, and taught him how to sing/dance/play the guitar. When the 6'2" 230lb muscled model walked in, all the soccer moms gasped for air. When he picked up the guitar and started singing Garth Brooks songs (yes, my 10 year happened when Garth Brooks happened), their panties hit the floor. I still wonder if a country music star, killed, ate, and stole the identity of my little pasty friend.

arachnopussy , 42 North Report

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#32

The class loser got a construction job the summer out of high school, hated his boss so after the summer he got a loan and started his own concrete pouring company. He's super successful and loaded now.

It was actually good to hear how he was doing because the way he was going I thought he'd be dead before 21.

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#33

I ran a highschool reunion function at a restaurant I worked at. Kind of an interesting one. This would have been 25-30 years. The one guy had become a billionaire and paid for the whole event, and one of the guys who was listed as passed away actually showed up so that was awkward.

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#34

Everyone had a kid or two and almost everyone had at least one failed marriage.
They all looked fat and sad and their faces lacked color. It was really depressing. Most were just angry with life and bitter. I left rather quickly and went to hang out with my current group of friends.

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#35

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users This one guy used to be kind a of a bully, seemed not to give a f**k about school, had bad grades, skipped class and did some drugs in school. I wasn't bothered by him and didn't interact with the guy that much as i wasn't a target of his antics.

If you asked me how I thought he turned out, I would've guess and was now doing some kind of manual work and had no education.

Turns out he co-created one of the most recognizable clothing brand in my country and has multiple brick and mortar locations. His brand is worn by some big names. He's a successful businessman and he's probably worth millions.

I think it's pretty f*****g cool he turned out that way!

struqc , Ron Lach Report

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#36

He was selling weed in high school. Now he's one of the best damn lawyers in the city

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#37

I went to my 25th last year - the absolute most amazing thing was how many people 'found Jesus' or some s**t... People that used to party their balls off completely transformed into carbon-copies of their parents; going to church every week, becoming 'conservative' both socially and politically. It was unnerving.

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The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users Popular cheerleader that was super girly and always had a boyfriend, she showed up at the 10 year reunion as a soft butch lesbian. Short hair, pantsuit, not a drop of makeup, slender but toned, and a wife on her arm. No one saw that coming.

The girl with a promising theatre career ahead had an intense struggle with mental illness (I believe it was schizophrenia) and eventually a cocaine addiction as well. By the time the reunion came along she was clean, but unemployeed and had ruined her looks and voice. Really sad.

Oh, and the devoutly religious girl who was proudly celibate ended up becoming a sexologist. Huh.

EDIT: As for me, I'm not an unbelievable change, but I still surprised people. I was a decent student in high school, but not extraordinary. I barely got into my biology program. I was actually waitlisted, and it was common knowledge that I barely passed first year. Fast forward to the high school reunion: I'm now doing my med school residency in a very competitive speciality. Life is great. All the kids who did better than me in high school that didn't get into med school were scratching their heads.

Seraphine1 , Karolina Grabowska Report

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#39

Saw a classmate smoke crack publicly many times @ 14 years old from rolled up aluminum foil. I heard he and a friend robbed a liquor store @ 17. He now has a PHD in mechanical engineering.

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#40

Can I say me or does that make me arrogant?

I was expelled and got a GED from an alternative high school.

I've since seen combat, have a bachelor's degree and am raising a son who became his student council president

People can change.

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#41

I graduated in 2004. Facebook was widely available (to all schools/the public) by 2005.

I didn't notice any transformation because nothing seemed punctuated. A few things:

- I realized that one of the biggest class idiots (i.e. had about 30 minutes' notice before he learned he passed his exams in 8th grade so he could walk during "graduation", similar story senior year) - he just passed his CPA exams and now he's an accountant for a good firm.

- Another total doofus who managed to somehow get into AP Calc, and fail the class (AP calc carried no graduation credits) and then got a lackluster 1 out of 5 on the exam - he's earned a doctorate in Pharmacology

- Baldness. Lots of baldness.

- The hardcore kid who used razor blades to put HUGE gauges in his ears, got kicked out of his house, and secretly spent a few nights in the school is not much different, but he showers now, doesn't use drugs, is a huge conspiracy theorist, but is an incredibly loving father. It's kind of neat to see someone who has a snake tongue, mega tattoos, huge gauges, and is kind of nutty work so hard to keep a strong family.

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25points

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#42

I don't wanna toot my own horn, but I had a hell of a transformation. In school I was fat, nerdy, awkward weirdo that was too oblivious to pick up on social cues. Since school I lost a lot of weight, grew into myself more and gained a lot of confidence. At the 10 year reunion, nearly everyone else gained a lot of weight so I definitely stood out. It was interesting because my frame of reference of myself was yesterday while their's was 10 years ago, if that makes sense. It was surreal, honestly. It really made me reflect on every mile I ran, every weight I lifted and every cookie I put down.

I ended up getting stoned in the kitchen of the bar with former goth weirdo, former star basketball player and some former burnout/hippie. I didn't really know any of them before. It was a really fun time.

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24points

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#43

I saw a guy who was picked on relentlessly and who was horribly awkward in social situations transform himself completely. In high school we thought he'd shoot up the school one day. He's a registered dietitian now, in his second or third year of med school, in great shape and generally an all around great guy.

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Final score:

24points

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#44

Super quiet nerdy girl I graduated with went off to college, met a guy that was a model she began to date, dropped out and is now a lingerie model herself. Always thought that was pretty cool..

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23points

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#45

Probably myself. Sometime during my early twenties, social interaction just "clicked" and I somehow managed to change myself from nerdy, socially 'mis-calibrated', unintentionally funny guy to a person that people actually want to befriend / invite / cowork with / f**k.

Sounds a bit preposterous, I know; it's a strange mixture of practice (!), self-evaluation and somewhat holistic self-improvement, and finally acquiring some social *'credit'* or *'value'* I could build upon.

Edit: Reason behind this post is: If I could do this, you can do this too.

OMGOMC Report

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21points

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#46

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users The class fatty dropped it all and now looks like Rob Lowe.

shinypretty , wikipedia Report

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20points

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#47

An intelligent, obese girl from my Kansas class of 48, lost all her weight became a TV anchor for a Southern California news broadcast.

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#48

this one girl made it from stripper to mayor's wife. it was a small town, so to her that was a big deal

Final score:

19points

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#49

My 10 year was sad. I played football in High School, marginally popular. The rest of the guys I looked up to that I played football with in High School just kind of... Stayed in that moment. Most of them still lived in the same town, grew pot bellies, and never let the football part of their lives go. They spend every night at the same dive bar by the lake, and they all wore their letterman jackets to the reunion. Now, I've put on some weight (losing it faithfully as of late), but their just... Stuck in their old lives. Most are working construction, aren't working, on assistance, etc. It was depressing.

The saddest part was that up until I graduated from college, I longed to be like them still. To still be buddies, go out all the time and party. Then I got married, had my daughter, got divorced, found the love of my life and moved onto a career.

They're just still stuck in that perpetual spiral, trying to relive the best days of their lives. Some of them gave up scholarships or dropped out because they didn't get the same validation they did in High School.

Final score:

19points

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#50

Everyone was the same for the most part. None of the cheerleaders got fat. The nerdy kids were still nerdy. I guess I was probably the biggest change since the dress code for dinner was to wear a suit and I was literally the only one there in a suit, despite my rather gangster roots in high school. One of the hotter cheerleaders' husband was wearing shorts and flip flops. I don't know what the f**k is wrong with people. You just f*****g Google "semi-formal" and it says wear a goddamn suit. Jeans, shorts, polos... No, every site says wear a suit. F**k.

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15points

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#51

Girl was an average-looking person with no boobs - huge boobs, covered in tattoos, alternative model, and is on covers of tabloid magazines in the UK.

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15points

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#52

PSA - You only get to live once. You should all go to your high school reunions. You don't get another chance, and you'll regret missing it.

No big surprises at my 10 year, but found out that a few of my former bullies are pretty nice guys now. People change. :)

Final score:

13points

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#53

There was this one guy who never really talked much, but he wasn't weird other than that. Nobody knew what happened to his mom, but he just lived with his dad in a lighthouse outside of town. When he was a sophomore, I think, he got in a fight with a senior and literally knocked him out. But that was the only time he was ever violent, and the other kid started it.

Senior year (I'm not proud of this), I keyed his car because he beat me in some contest.

So at the 10 year reunion, nobody knew he would show. Most of us hadn't talked to him since graduation. Well he comes, and he has a super hot wife. Plus, turns out, he's in the Justice League! I apologized for keying his car, and he said it was ok because a sacred day of Atlantean amnesty.

Good old Art.

Crowsdower Report

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13points

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#54

There was the definite cases of "who is that fat person who ate my friend" but the most unreal thing at mine was the girl no one knew or remembered. Holy s**t.

So we were a pretty close graduating class, everyone at least knew or remembered everyone else. Except this one girl, absolutely hammered, and no one knew her. She was so outrageous, that everyone came up to me asking if I hired an escort to be funny (which I had strongly considered doing, but couldnt find one that was 'cool' enough, and would recommend anyone else doing it if they can).

Anyways, this chick is all over every single guy there, hanging on 'em trying to dance (when there was no music and it was the cocktail hour), grinding on them in front of their wives (still no music, that was later). But she also knew everyones names and stories, like stories a best friend would know. But not a single person knew who she was. She was average looking not hot but not ugly. But when she slammed back about 10 tequila shots in a as many minutes and then proceeded to grope, manhandle, smoosh-smoosh every guy, it went to a whole new level of weird. Someone had brought an old yearbook, and sure enough the name she gave was in it, but no clubs/activities, she looked somewhat similar to the 10 year old pic to where it probably wasnt a party crasher or someones spouse just havin a laugh, and still not a single person who knew her.

She was amazing to watch, just the shear amount of IDGAF she exuded was hilarious. Then she threw up. on the dance floor. Stood up, kicked the vomit with her shoes and started dancing some more then ran to the bar for more beer. Last I saw, the old class pres was trying to get her to drink water as she was passed out in a chair with more puke in her hair, while mumbling about how happy she was she voted for the class pres ten years ago.

I can only imagine her thought process leading up to the reunion. She definitely made sure people knew her, except if you asked anyone there I guarantee you they still couldnt tell you her name. I left before she got cattle carted away. But if your looking for an example of who to be at our reunion, DEFINITELY BE HER. I guarantee you will have a blast and look back on it and giggle with the total amount of WTF you create.

SouthernJeb Report

Final score:

12points

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#55

Three fave memories from my tenth:

1) the super smart, but unmotivated class clown - sitting at the bar telling everyone that he worked for a NASA subcontractor as a human space waste engineer and everyone believing him. "S**t freezes instantly in space." Completely hilarious. Her actually worked in a lumber yard.

2) the most beautiful, popular girl in our class sitting on a bench with literally - I kid you not - a line of guys waiting to talk to her and tell her how well they were each doing. She was still as gorgeous and perfect as ever.

3) The fact that educational and occupational attainment really didn't matter at all. It was high school cliques all over again. That changed at the 20th, but the 10th was still very much high school-ish. (If you are trying to finish a degree or get a promotion before you go to your 10th reunion, relax. No-one cares. But if it's your 20th and you care about such things - hurry.)

Throwaway1234m Report

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12points

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#56

All the "invisible" boys were hot, well dressed, and gainfully employed.

hedgehog1961 Report

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12points

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#57

Life is f*****g hard. The most insane transformations came from the people who experienced unfortunate realities after graduation.

My HS ex went to an Ivy League school on full scholarship off the bat but then right after graduating she fell in love with the wrong guy and pretty much ended up living at home with her mother and her two kids while on social security while her husband was in jail for drug charges.

trap_gob Report

Final score:

11points

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#58

I was friendly with this guy K freshman/sophomore year, I think. He was super quiet, shy, incredibly studious, chubby kid. Even some teachers would be like 'lighten up, relax.' He came out of his shell senior year and we kind of stopped being friends because he was hanging out with the 'cool' kids and having parties where people could drink, etc, and I was super square and uninterested.

So at my reunion, he was this x20. He is now a 'hotshot' kind of guy in DC working for a 'strategies' company. (Just googled it, no idea what they do). Anyway, at the reunion he was mostly okay UNTIL he chugged a s**t-ton of beers. Some folks had left, but the rest of left at the reunion had gathered around while he picked up a yearbook. He proceeded to s**t on EVERY PERSON in our year whether they were there to defend themselves or not. This was a super uncool kid freshman year (who nobody really disliked or made fun of, actually) just bashing everyone for weight, being weird, being uncool, being too cool, etc. My boyfriend was with me (he did not go to HS with me) and was so uncomfortable the entire time.

KittenImmaculate Report

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10points

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#59

When I went to my 10 year I noticed a few changes. The popular jocks were fat and bald. People hung out in the cliques like they did in high school. And this one dude who constantly combed his feathered hair while in class was completely bald. That poor bastard.

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10points

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#60

One dude got alopecia. I thought he was someone's boyfriend until we talked. Eyebrows sure help you recognize people.

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10points

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#61

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users It's surprising how many of the ridiculously smart girls (we had a lot of them!) got pregnant not 2 years out of high school, dropped out of university, and now have 2+ kids, no higher education and are totally stuck in their boring a*s lives.

Some of the "slow learners" actually made it through uni or vocational school and have bright careers, only because they got their s**t together.

From the guys, beer bellies and bald spots everywhere! Shocking how many went totally out of shape.

godless-life , Antenna Report

Final score:

9points

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#62

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users There was a girl in my high school class who was near the top for GPA, was going to a prestigious 4-year for pre-med, and was the ASB class president.

10 years later I found out she was an overweight hairdresser and had a kid out of wedlock in the s**tty city nearest our hometown. Talk about a "transformation"

SpaceyCoffee , Adam Winger Report

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9points

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#63

One girl went from hot to super hot. Another girl went from cute to obese with 3 kids. Many, many people went from "single" to "divorced," and some of them also made it to "in court fighting over custody of the children."

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Final score:

9points

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#64

So mine was last year. Saw a lot of people who got really fat, a few people who look the same, some who got really good looking.

Met my fiance there, I'm glad I went.

roninmodern Report

Final score:

8points

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#65

The Best And Worst Transformations Seen During School Reunions, As Shared By These 30 Internet Users One of the ugliest girls in our class (looked like a mom in high school, a little on the chunky side with a short afro [she was a white Puerto Rican I think]). Anyway, she came to the reunion as a body double for Monica Lewinsky. Not a single person recognized her without looking at her name tag. The transformation as to how pretty she was compared to how ugly she was in high school was mind-blowing.

PRMan99 , wikipedia Report

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7points

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#66

Not 10 but 20 a couple of years back.

Lots of bald or gray haired guys. Some of the women got big and some still acted like they were still in high school and thought they were still hot. Nope, not even.

One dude that changed the most was some kid who was skinny in HS. When he showed up, he was muscular huge but had a thick head and neck. You could tell he juiced up.

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Final score:

7points

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#67

Knew a kid who was kind of an a*****e in high school, bullied kids, treated girls like s**t, thought he was hilarious and pissed off the teachers in class. Basically your average teenage shithead. I knew him well enough to know that there was a decent guy underneath the crappy attitude, but that side didn't come out very often. At our 10 year he was not just entirely gray-haired and more than a few pounds heavier, but he was also a devout Christian and as soft-spoken and sweet as a person could be. I can think of a couple of things in his life that may have precipitated the change, but didn't bring up the guy he had been in high school. I wonder if maybe he didn't want to be reminded of that kid anymore. I know I don't want to be reminded of who *I* was in high school, either.

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7points

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#68

My ten year was a year ago, the organizers were these four girls who just happened to have all gotten married in the last year which I personally thought was funny.

However, the person who had the biggest change? One person who was a girl in my grade had a sex change over the last ten years. "He" was on the lookout to avoid an ex boyfriend, because it would be awkward.

Another big change was one of the women in my year who was almost a ball in terms of body size when I was in school slimmed down a lot.

Other than that, the people that showed up were pretty what I expected. I was on the lookout to avoid an ex of mine that I had gotten back together with after college but broken up with a few years earlier. Luckily she didn't show up.

Final score:

6points

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#69

In my specific case... Almost everyone is married with kids, or is about to be married and have an stable job... And I'm just in my 2nd year of University, no kids, no job... And still looking like I was 20 while the others have aged notably

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#70

The fat gay guy became really fit, ripped, and successful. God damnit, Fat Tim, why you be so brilliant?

Final score:

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#71

The biggest non transformation was 95% of the people who thought they were the cool kids never made it out of my small south florida town and are stuck working at McDonalds and the like.

Biggest transformation was the overbearing amount of girls turned lesbians.

Truestory.

dcbrah Report

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4points

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#72

A girl who I was friends with but could never do anything with because she was dating my friend went from being smoking hot to morbidly obese.

Meanwhile here best friend who was short, slightly overweight and had a butch lesbian haircut is now smoking hot, super in shape (she's a distance runner now) and has a much more flattering style.

I really liked both of them as friends, and deep down I knew I had a good shot with the second girl, but I never asked her out because I wasn't attracted to her.

factoid_ Report

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2points

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Zedrapazia 2 years ago

I'm sorry, why's a b***h lesbian haircut considered non-flattering here? Short hair on women isn't ugly, stop the stigmata.

19points

Ervin Conn 2 years ago

Ugly and beautiful are subjective. Some will like it. Some will not. Everyone is allowed to like or dislike whatever they want. It's called freedom. Look it up. I like both. If I disliked both that would be my prerogative. It is a PERSONAL OPINION and not something just to annoy you.

8points

Isabel Care 2 years ago

Last job I had, I got a "butch lesbian haircut" (buzzcut) from a gay psychiatric nurse friend. Told the guy I was working with, "Yes, I know what you think of the haircut, but I am straight. Don't worry though, you're all safe from me, because I only fancy men" It took 5 minutes before one shouted "Oi" as he realised I had just insulted them (only one realised)

1point

Sarah Moeding 2 years ago

Super gross to think of friends as people you can't "do anything with." They're your friends. Whether you can or can't "do anything" with them should not have any part in your relationship.

1point

#73

Not 10 year but 25 year.

Large people EVERYWHERE. It's like everybody suddenly ballooned. Also, major alcohol abuse.

Thanks goodness for /r/keto, at least I don't have any excess weight hanging over me and look 10 years younger than most of my classmates. I've got that going for me at least.

Final score:

1point

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#74

I was a super skinny skateboarder kid who got his a*s kicked a lot. So I joined the military. And started lifting weights. Hard. And when I would get the weight up I kept thinking "wait till they see you at your reunion." It was my motivation. I got there and people were floored. I was 6' 2" 230 lbs and solid. The jocks were like trying to feel my muscles. The girls were on me. And my fiance was pissed. She didn't know. But It felt awesome. F**k that. No regrets. I had my 20 year and those same bullys all are dead of drug overdoses or suicide. 5 of them are dead. All 5.

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-5points

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Foxxy (The Original) 2 years ago

I would NEVER ever even consider going to a school reunion. Not even sure if it's really a thing in Australia. Anyway, that part of my life is in my past and it can stay that way. School was a horrible experience for me and I certainly don't want to waste my time on reliving it.

70points

TheDivineMsM 2 years ago

Same Foxxy. I'm in America and passed my 10th and 20th because I knew it would just be a competition of how successful everyone became or didn't become. No thanks- I don't need to have anyone validate my life or my journey.

37points

Wicked Moon216 2 years ago

I just made this almost exact same comment on here. We had a graduating class of 600+ people in 1988. 4 years ago they had the 30th reunion and just ELEVEN people showed up!! I heard about online like a week later. Everyone that I knew from high school that I *still* want to talk to is on FB, so I just keep in touch with them there.

8points

Jessica Low 2 years ago

Same. There is this new invebtion called the internet. On this internet, you can look up anyone you want to say hi or catch up. I will not spend hundreds of dollars to go see people i dont really care about, especially when they are already all over my fb page. It was 4 years. People need to move away from it.

6points

Chris Osborn 2 years ago

Same here, I didn't really love HS when I was there, why would I want to go back for more. I graduated in 1988 and haven't been to any of my reunions. I didn't have a whole lot of friends, none that I stayed on touch with, so what's the point?

4points

Ashley Kelly 2 years ago

I was bullied out of high school. I have no desire to see those people. None.

3points

RafCo (he/him) 2 years ago

My fond memories of secondary are few and far in between. I don't think there is anyone I'd be interested in seeing again from that time

3points

Bianca Schepel 1 year ago

Same... To be honest, I wasn't even invited to mine XD In their defense, no one remembered my name at the end of finals when a group pic was taken and I'm on there as ???

1point

Seabeast 2 years ago

Same.

1point

Byron Flanders 1 year ago

But by your 30th reunion, you are just happy to see people you knew since then. You forget the bad, remember the fun. Everyone is just happy to be alive!

0points

Joseph Bresett 2 years ago

It is sad that almost all of these post have comments about the girls got fat and mostly comments on appearance

50points

Broderik Craig 2 years ago

I was about to say the same thing. Apparently the e mean girls are fat and the shy girls are hot and everyone is just as shallow as they were when they were teens

47points

Stella 2 years ago

Plus the ones where guys were considered successful cause they got a hot wife

6points

Randy Kitchens 2 years ago

When in High School it was all about appearance. The ones that belittled others and wind up being exactly what they shamed in school is priceless. Pride goeth before the fall.

5points

Mary Jeffries 2 years ago

A lot of these are about 10 year reunions. People are often more accepting at their 20 year. Mine was great to see so many people grow up to strong adults.

3points

Safy 2 years ago

Some of these were really mean spirited. lol

24points

Buncil 1 year ago

You sound like someone who didn't suffer at hands of others at school.

2points

Joshua Moon 2 years ago

Won't get invited to my reunion. I dropped out. Got my HSED in jail. Started a trade job. Ended up getting a bachelor's degree in welding. I'm now the lead fabricator and designer at my job and build critical lift fixtures. I'm satisfied.

20points

Remi Flynne 2 years ago

Kudos, Joshua 👍

6points

Eda Aitsen 2 years ago (edited)

That is the exact reason why I never go to school reunions - judgements and comparisons. Always. I do not need that kind of s**t.

17points

LinkTheHylian 2 years ago

I know many of the people I went to high school with were parents before their mid-20s, yet they hadn't really matured so were basically kids with smaller kids. A couple were parents before we left, and now they're all in their mid-30s with kids preparing to entire high school themselves, but the maturity of my ex-classmates is still questionable.

11points

LinkTheHylian 2 years ago

As for myself, I was the outcast. Found out I suffered from depression while I was in college, put on weight while bouncing from one retail job to the next, and I've been social distancing since before it was cool. On the upside, I am working on the weight thing, and it's insane how much more expensive it is to eat healthily.

12points

GB 2 years ago

When I was in highschool my group of friends included this really sweet shy guy who was a few years older than me. While the rest of us were drinking, smoking, and taking drugs, he abstained from it all. He was pretty innocent and, though he was super cute, he never had a girlfriend. Ironically, he was in a really cool Ska punk band. We didn't stay in touch after highschool but fast forward a few years and suddenly he's world famous--Tim Armstrong of Rancid and Transplants.

10points

Joseph Bresett 2 years ago

Rancid is awesome lucky you to have met Tim Armstrong he is a great vocalist

6points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

I hate the 'quiet-kid' meme. People talk about them almost as if they don't exist, or as if they aren't real, and then they're shocked when they find out they can talk and are actually confident. Maybe they just didn't like you very much. Or maybe they didn't like having to be there. Same goes for the ones who they're saying dressed-down in high school, but who dress proffessionally now as an adult. As if they were 'visually quiet'. Seems like they're usually referring to the girls, here. "But she was so hot!"

9points

Moezzzz 2 years ago

I went to one reunion. Everyone thought I'd be running the local shoe store (I was the assistant manager while in high school). Sooo, basically they thought I'd go no where in life. I showed up with a degree in science, being a house supervisor for a hospital (as well as an ER/Trauma RN), married and with two sons, so sticking that to them was pretty satisfying. Didn't bother going to any more. They're all awful

9points

Jamie Mcdonald 2 years ago

They thought you'd be Al Bundy.

2points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

So many were just people surprised that people were more successful and happy after getting away from the toxic high school bully situation.

9points

Lily Zdzinski 2 years ago

This was weirdly encouraging for me as a highschool student lol

7points

Broderik Craig 2 years ago

Take it from a college student, highschool is a blip on the radar. The only people who care about high school 5 years later are the ones who peaked in highschool

15points

ZeroCapacity 2 years ago

Never received an invite to any school reunions. Probably because no one knew what had happened to me. I dropped off the face of the earth after school and only resurfaced recently.

4points

ADumpsterFire 2 years ago

"people's looks changed in a decade or more" - most of theses submissions.

3points

Anthony Parisi 2 years ago

I've often wondered how many of the rich, mean kids stilled lived off their daddy's dime!!

3points

Tami 2 years ago

So being *different* in high school is often a good omen!

3points

Marie Dahme 2 years ago

I hated my high school years. I was miserable, had no friends but I did academically very well. hated lunchtime because I dreaded sitting near anyone. eventually started bringing a sack lunch and hiding in the library. I was found one day the librarian Mrs. Hatton. She befriended me and had a major impact on my life. We talked about books and poetry during lunch. Eventually I became a library aide and helped out in the library and learned the Dewey decimal system and how to use the card catalog like a pro. A few years ago I looked her up out of the blue. The obituary for Caroline Hatton was amazing. She was in the military and jumped out of planes and traveled! I wish I knew at the time these things about her. All we did was talk about me and my dysfunctional family. I cried. Not only because I missed her but so much of her I never knew about. only would gone to a reunion for her. The rest of the class Hanna Wyoming can F off! I am successful out of state and happy 😃

2points

Rannveig Ess 2 years ago

Sigh. Might as well just go read Reddit since this is all I see here.....

2points

Jason Marin 2 years ago

I couldn't go to a highschool reunion even if I wanted to. For reasons unknown to me, when I was younger, I was sent to different private schools that didn't really teach me anything. They just taught me stuff I already knew. Five years after I graduated from a private highschool. I got an e-mail where I was invited to a highschool reunion. I had to turn it down due to the fact that because I was in different private schools, I would find it a bit awkward to attend and talk to people I've never met.

2points

Elizabeth Line 2 years ago

My 10 year reunion was a lonely affair...my whole class was there. I wasn't surprised to see that I had changed a lot since high school. >.> I had to do ISP so yeah I was the whole of my Reunion....man can't wait for my 30 year to introduce my husband to myself!

2points

Ruth Jacobs 2 years ago

I was shy so according to this I must be hot now. And my bullies, they'll be fat. I don't need to go to a reunion. I never would anyway, I didn't like school and don't ever wish to revisit it.

2points

Benita Valdez 2 years ago

My 20th reunion was last year so yeah didn't quite happen

2points

Rens 2 years ago

I left the country just before my 10 years reunion; I hated high school, some of the worst years of my life. For a while I looked at how everybody was doing, using Facebook. It was checking to see how many people died, and even worse when they died of COVID. It's been over 30 years since high school, I certainly never believed I'd end up where I am now: disabled, chronically ill and unable to work. The only joy was that everybody turned 50 before I did 😆

2points

Rens 2 years ago

*checking = shocking*

0points

Jason Marin 1 year ago

I received an email many, many years ago to my high school graduation but had to decline. The reason for this is because halfway through 3rd grade, I was sent to different private schools so to me, it would have been awkward to go to a graduation and hang around a bunch of people I didn't know.

1point

GadgetGirl 1 year ago

I am only friends with two people I went to high school with. And I married one. When I asked the other if he was going to go to the reunion, his words were "No, I'd rather spend that money hanging out with friends". Bob was always the wise one.

1point

Suck it Trebek 1 year ago

One of my best guy friends was gay. He wasn't out in high school but it wasn't hard to guess and he was terrorized. I was not popular but for some reason all the popular girls were super mean to me. I'm in my late 40s and I can still tell you things they said to me that left scars. By the time the 10 year rolled around my friend and I blossomed and had fantastic lives. The only reason we went was because we KNEW we were better than all those a******s. We were petty as s**t too. If it was someone who made our lives miserable were not nice to them at all. This one girl was so hot in high school thin, gorgeous hair, awesome clothes perfect make up. The works. She was a c*nt to me. Time had not been kind, weight gain, huge bags under her eyes, dull hair. It was as if everything she had going for her was gone. She actually came up to talk to me. So when she told me how much she liked my shoes. I smiled cruelly said "Thanks, they're worth more than your life" turned and walked away.

1point

Tjoori Vids 1 year ago

Arrived to my reunion in punky yellow and black striped pants, a raggedy T-shirt and a pink satin coat with rhinestones on it. Oh, yeah. And about 40kg lighter. 90% of my class didn't recognize me, nor did my teacher. Next reunion I just happened to be in town, so I went, but had to go home the next day. When I turned down a drink, they were like "What's it matter?" "Can't be drunk for my flight." "Pff, just relax and sleep on the plane." "Mhm. Pass. I'm the pilot."

1point

Lacia Lew 2 years ago

Pretty sad that most of these just talked about appearances, how this or that bullied nerds got successful, how this or that jock got fat, and vice versa. I haven't had my 10th yet but I won't be attending. I don't need more people invalidating the life I am already satisfied with. (Looking at you and your unrealistic expectations, mom...)

1point

ConfiscatedGrape 2 years ago

Never went to mine, why would I want to see the assholes who bullied me all 9years straight. I'm almost 40 and still struggling with my self esteem.

1point

neil mason 2 years ago

been 40 years since I left....and I haven't been to a single reunion, don't wish too either... BUT I am going to my Junior school 44th reunion - they were REAL friends

1point

Cathy Hurd 2 years ago

There isn't a person I went to school with that I have any interest in seeing, not one. I also get great joy in the fact that the teachers I had are no longer with us.

1point

Vishy 2 years ago

We had a school reunion and the only topic discussed was who was earning his much. Me and and my friend left the party and went to his home. An hour later half the gang lands up at his home with drinks and food. Best party we had. We two still get nasty mails from the organizers.

1point

Carol Emory 2 years ago

I've never gone to a high school reunion, but my friend posted pictures of it. Our graduating class was approximately 1200 students. Of that number, only about 40 showed up to the reunion. All the time I was looking to fit in to the popular crowd and none of them showed up. You know who did...the kids that didn't care about status or popularity. The ones that accepted people for who they are. The only reason I never showed....I was 3000 miles away and broke as heck. That's why I asked my friend for the photos.

1point

Mad McQueen 2 years ago

Nothing drastic. I was Just the "ally sheedy breakfast club"girl type in school. Just hung back a lot. 5 year reunion I rocked it. Confidence. Great bf (now ex). 10 year reunion still rocked it but was having surgery two days later for gall stones. Everyone was trying to memorialize a guy that wasn't dead and he showed up. We were friends in school and I used to help shoot videos for adds for his rubber masks he was selling. He came up an told me I was the best at it because I had an eye for that. I wasn't great and Uber artistic then. But I've been published (artwork) in some books and such. I guess being quiet I heard a lot of gossip that people didn't want to get out. Footballers. Cheerleaders (posted another reunion story about the b@@@h cheerleader from 5 yr reunion before). Just turned into average job married people who didn't like their lives. I'm happy. No kids. Do and go where I like.

1point

Laurel Knight 1 year ago

I have been to many high school reunions. No competition.. just happy to see each other in person and still alive.

0points

Alexandra Grey 1 year ago

The day of my 10 year reunion I was in the field training for my third deployment. At the time of my 20 year reunion I was preparing to retire from the Army. As far as I know, I was the only person in my class who had joined the military. I would have had nothing in common with and nothing to talk about with anyone. I didn't bother going.

0points

Doodles1983 1 year ago

Most of the attendees are people who still care about HS. Were the popular kids, and/or the bullies. And still are…! Also known as the people I see no point wasting my time on or with.

0points

Lora Burke-Mulkey 1 year ago

10 yr all drunk and trying to hook up with someone, 20 yr comparing wallets and only getting tipsy, 35 yr all so happy to see each other, no puffing up, showing pics of kids and grandkids, and talking about how expensive reunion was and mediocre the food was, all went home by 10 or 11 pm hahaha

0points

Ash Conner 1 year ago

I hope everyone I went to school with is doing good and still growing everyday as a person. School is School. Kids are not developed and do stupid things. We all do stupid things as kids. Now what isn't cool is if someone at their 20 year reunion is still immature and bullies Co workers. Then that is truly an obnoxious person.

0points

P.L. Packer 1 year ago

I hated high school. I also live in the same county I went to school in. Raised my kids here and they are going to the same schools I did. As are my grandkids! My graduating class just had it's 50 year reunion, I didn't attend. The people I liked in high school are still my friends and I see them around. I don't need to pay a couple hundred dollars for an inferior meal or listen to speeches from people I didn't like and who didn't like me. I did ok after school. Didn't go to college but became a network software engineer for a Fortune 500 telco (2nd largest in North America) and worked there for 25+ years. I got to travel around the US a lot on the company's dime, met interesting people and learned a lot about communications.

0points

P.C. 1 year ago

This is why I’m homeschooled, this is why I’m homeschooled ^^ -and friendless…. (Not really i have some friends from church and musical theater…) actually, I only have 2-4 friends, but it has nothing to do with my lack of public education, rather it’s my introverted personality. INTP. And no, my sister is also homeschooled and a big extrovert who’s friends with literally everyone she meets. All the musical theater kids (like, 100 of them) plus the adults in charge (add 30-40), and then friends from church (20-30). Yerp

0points

Marcus Lynch 1 year ago

Went to one and only one reunion. 10 years. Former high school football players out sitting on the back of MY truck drinking beer in the parking lot. I moved on. They dug in.

0points

LibrarianJanet 1 year ago

Went to my 10 yr reunion. Best transformation I saw was the surly, punk, defiant a**hole who turned into a career U.S. Marine.

0points

Diane Peterson 1 year ago

I loved going to school, but hated all the meanness, people making fun of me for 4 solid years. It started in 9th grade, after having back to back knee surgeries. I had terrible scar's on my legs, and everyone thought it was hilarious to call me out on them. I also had problems walking and my kneecaps would dislocate on occasion.One of my good friends/used to be friend, announced to the whole locker room one day, boy I'm sure glad I don't have those scars on my legs! Now we had been to school for 8 years together, and went to the same church and had the same catechism classes together. What a friend huh? The final straw was one winter day the sidewalks were completely filled with ice. Of course I fell and got really hurt. My neighbor/old BF, approached me laughing his head off and saying I know I shouldn't laugh but it looked so funny. He proceeded to step over me and my books and go into the building. How could you not offer to help me get up? My knees were bleeding too. Just cruel!

0points

Hypoxia Smurf 1 year ago

Reunion? Where? My USA 9-12 grade years (usually considered the High School era) were spent at five different public schools, a juvenile hall semester, with graduation at an adult high half the state away. Reunion? Ha!

0points

Lucky2BAlive 2 years ago

I have never been to any of the reunions. Almost no one but the clique people showed up at the last one Maybe 20 out of the hundreds. I heard it ended at a local bar. People didn’t like me then, or didn’t know I existed other than verbal target practice. I think I was most likely to be forgotten. Why in Gods name would I put myself there again. Maybe I will go to the 40th. Do a whole last man standing thing. *L*

0points

Viv Hart 2 years ago

We had our 50th Anniv. Reunion of the Class of '62, where I met the guy on whom I'd had the biggest secret crush, I was very bashful as a teen. Didn't recognise him any more, except his miischievous eyes hadn't changed, and he remembered me! We are now great email friends.

0points

shado 2 years ago

Yes, high school was enough of a d*ck-measuring competition that I didn't bother wasting my time on reunions with the same kind of low-brow people that populated the nightmares of my youth - seems most a$$holes can and do remain a$$holes, and sadly proof of that can easily be found on even a moderate dive into Facebook on any given day!

0points

Jennifer Brown 2 years ago

There were some changes in my class, one girl who was always sweet and funny but overweight lost the weight and looked fabulous. I was appalled by some of my friends who had 5-6 kids. Most of them are divorced. I have never married which was probably a huge surprise as I always had a boyfriend thru ought high school. I don't have kids either.

0points

katie trondsen 2 years ago

My husband is so different from the person he was in highschool. WHen we were first dating I went to his moms place and saw a framed picture on the wall, i thought to myself woa whos the ugly girl? Greasy long curls, insane amount of acne, braces and crooked teeth and very over weight. Now husband told me that was his high school picture lol I would NEVER have guessed

0points

Terry Tobias 2 years ago

I passed on my 5 year reunion because it was just a picnic in a park and too soon after high school. I went to my 10 year but didn't have much fun. It was ok but my close friends from school didn't show up and most people brought a date so there wasn't much socializing and nobody danced. My 20 year was great! I had so much fun! Most people came without dates so it was easy to reminisce, especially with people that I knew from elementary school (we had a huge school district back then and a number of schools feeding into one high school). The guys didn't age as well as the girls. One guy that I knew from chorus and the plays came to me as I was talking to mutual friends and said to them "Isn't she beautiful now!". I had started to come into my own when I was about 16 and grew as a person in the 20 years since graduation. The woman just looked at him and said "Terry was always beautiful." Thank you Charlotte... you were always a good friend!

0points

Parmeisan 2 years ago

I have no idea if we had a reunion. I still know lots of people from high school but none of us were popular. I have to wonder how they're expected to find and contact everyone, with many having different names and many having moved away? We had 300 kids in my graduating class so maybe there were half a dozen mini-reunions. I wasn't invited to any of them :P

0points

Kiryn Silverwing 2 years ago

I didn't bother going to my 10th at all, and I'm not sure I'll bother with my 20th this year either. I didn't really know many people in my high school (just kept my head down and did my schoolwork to try to avoid bullies) and I can just meet up with my few friends directly.

0points

Hypoxia Smurf 2 years ago

I knew of no reunions for any of the several high schools I attended (including a Juvenile Hall semester). Friends from earlier grades had all dispersed, so we had no get-togethers either. Life proceeds.

0points

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Foxxy (The Original) 2 years ago

70points

TheDivineMsM 2 years ago

37points

Wicked Moon216 2 years ago

8points

Jessica Low 2 years ago

6points

Chris Osborn 2 years ago

4points

Ashley Kelly 2 years ago

I was bullied out of high school. I have no desire to see those people. None.

3points

RafCo (he/him) 2 years ago

My fond memories of secondary are few and far in between. I don't think there is anyone I'd be interested in seeing again from that time

3points

Bianca Schepel 1 year ago

Same... To be honest, I wasn't even invited to mine XD In their defense, no one remembered my name at the end of finals when a group pic was taken and I'm on there as ???

1point

Seabeast 2 years ago

Same.

1point

Byron Flanders 1 year ago

But by your 30th reunion, you are just happy to see people you knew since then. You forget the bad, remember the fun. Everyone is just happy to be alive!

0points

Joseph Bresett 2 years ago

It is sad that almost all of these post have comments about the girls got fat and mostly comments on appearance

50points

Broderik Craig 2 years ago

I was about to say the same thing. Apparently the e mean girls are fat and the shy girls are hot and everyone is just as shallow as they were when they were teens

47points

Stella 2 years ago

Plus the ones where guys were considered successful cause they got a hot wife

6points

Randy Kitchens 2 years ago

When in High School it was all about appearance. The ones that belittled others and wind up being exactly what they shamed in school is priceless. Pride goeth before the fall.

5points

Mary Jeffries 2 years ago

A lot of these are about 10 year reunions. People are often more accepting at their 20 year. Mine was great to see so many people grow up to strong adults.

3points

Safy 2 years ago

Some of these were really mean spirited. lol

24points

Buncil 1 year ago

You sound like someone who didn't suffer at hands of others at school.

2points

Joshua Moon 2 years ago

20points

Remi Flynne 2 years ago

Kudos, Joshua 👍

6points

Eda Aitsen 2 years ago (edited)

That is the exact reason why I never go to school reunions - judgements and comparisons. Always. I do not need that kind of s**t.

17points

LinkTheHylian 2 years ago

11points

LinkTheHylian 2 years ago

12points

GB 2 years ago

10points

Joseph Bresett 2 years ago

Rancid is awesome lucky you to have met Tim Armstrong he is a great vocalist

6points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

9points

Moezzzz 2 years ago

9points

Jamie Mcdonald 2 years ago

They thought you'd be Al Bundy.

2points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

So many were just people surprised that people were more successful and happy after getting away from the toxic high school bully situation.

9points

Lily Zdzinski 2 years ago

This was weirdly encouraging for me as a highschool student lol

7points

Broderik Craig 2 years ago

Take it from a college student, highschool is a blip on the radar. The only people who care about high school 5 years later are the ones who peaked in highschool

15points

ZeroCapacity 2 years ago

Never received an invite to any school reunions. Probably because no one knew what had happened to me. I dropped off the face of the earth after school and only resurfaced recently.

4points

ADumpsterFire 2 years ago

"people's looks changed in a decade or more" - most of theses submissions.

3points

Anthony Parisi 2 years ago

I've often wondered how many of the rich, mean kids stilled lived off their daddy's dime!!

3points

Tami 2 years ago

So being *different* in high school is often a good omen!

3points

Marie Dahme 2 years ago

2points

Rannveig Ess 2 years ago

Sigh. Might as well just go read Reddit since this is all I see here.....

2points

Jason Marin 2 years ago

2points

Elizabeth Line 2 years ago

2points

Ruth Jacobs 2 years ago

I was shy so according to this I must be hot now. And my bullies, they'll be fat. I don't need to go to a reunion. I never would anyway, I didn't like school and don't ever wish to revisit it.

2points

Benita Valdez 2 years ago

My 20th reunion was last year so yeah didn't quite happen

2points

Rens 2 years ago

2points

Rens 2 years ago

*checking = shocking*

0points

Jason Marin 1 year ago

1point

GadgetGirl 1 year ago

1point

Suck it Trebek 1 year ago

1point

Tjoori Vids 1 year ago

1point

Lacia Lew 2 years ago

1point

ConfiscatedGrape 2 years ago

Never went to mine, why would I want to see the assholes who bullied me all 9years straight. I'm almost 40 and still struggling with my self esteem.

1point

neil mason 2 years ago

been 40 years since I left....and I haven't been to a single reunion, don't wish too either... BUT I am going to my Junior school 44th reunion - they were REAL friends

1point

Cathy Hurd 2 years ago

There isn't a person I went to school with that I have any interest in seeing, not one. I also get great joy in the fact that the teachers I had are no longer with us.

1point

Vishy 2 years ago

1point

Carol Emory 2 years ago

1point

Mad McQueen 2 years ago

1point

Laurel Knight 1 year ago

I have been to many high school reunions. No competition.. just happy to see each other in person and still alive.

0points