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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 13, 2014 17:51:34 GMT -5
"But seriously, there is something weird and cult-like with Penn State people. They're the worst. I can't even explain how it grates me." OMG do I ever understand! PA resident here who will never get it! Five words: "How about that Jerry Sandusky?" That'll shut 'em up.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jun 13, 2014 17:54:22 GMT -5
I didn't really hold on to High School. I enjoyed HS. I had some great experiences playing sports, basketball, being the Salutatorian, etc. However, then I went on to college and went on living my life. But, lately, we recently had a reunion. And, we are all at the point in our lives where we are OVER ourselves. We can all relax. We are who we are some. So, when I went, I had the absolute BEST time and I reconnected with some gal pals. And, now every couple of months, we have a girls night out and get together. There is something very special about being with the people whom you grew up with. There is a bond of shared experiences. So, why NOT celebrate that? That is what I was saying. This is the group of friends that was there for my first boyfriend, first kiss, losing my virginity, stealing my moms car, first beer, first concert, and so on and so on. Plus we were just a really fun bunch of people. I agree about people being over themselves at this point. At my 20th reunion there were no "cliques". Everyone mingled and had a blast.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 13, 2014 20:00:22 GMT -5
"But seriously, there is something weird and cult-like with Penn State people. They're the worst. I can't even explain how it grates me." OMG do I ever understand! PA resident here who will never get it! Five words: "How about that Jerry Sandusky?" That'll shut 'em up. No, it actually doesn't.
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Post by plugginaway22 on Jun 13, 2014 22:03:08 GMT -5
No, it doesn't they get up on the podium about how horribly JoePa was treated, and they don't want to talk about Jerry.
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Post by ZaireinHD on Jun 14, 2014 1:32:44 GMT -5
I graduated in 89 - 25 years ago! the High School closed and our records were transferred to another school with some of the teachers. I know that because back then I had a friend that needed his diploma and he had to go through the other school. as far as I know - there has not been any reunions. or at least no inventions sent to me? I live in the same area but moved around a lot. so I don't even understand how reunions can happen having to track down an entire graduating class? who wants to do that? Would I go if invited? good question? maybe, probably I would. I'm not doing bad now, so I would go to see others and to see how fat they have gotten! LOL
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jun 14, 2014 8:33:55 GMT -5
Five words: "How about that Jerry Sandusky?" That'll shut 'em up. No, it actually doesn't. I'm also in PA and so many people believe JoePa got a raw deal. I'm not one of them
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 8:40:42 GMT -5
Me neither. I hate driving by billboards that have been put up in his 'honor', pisses me off every time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 17:05:41 GMT -5
as far as I know - there has not been any reunions. or at least no inventions sent to me? I live in the same area but moved around a lot. so I don't even understand how reunions can happen having to track down an entire graduating class? who wants to do that? Would I go if invited? good question? maybe, probably I would. I'm not doing bad now, so I would go to see others and to see how fat they have gotten! LOL Check for a FaceBook page from your old HS, maybe even for your graduation year. My graduating class has one of its own and they did a pretty good job of finding people for the 40th. I agree with you that feeling good about where you are now can be a big motivator in attending reunions!
Interesting time to have these discussions- tonight they're having a benefit dinner for one of my classmates. He was a popular guy in school, played the piano and did all kinds of entertainment in musical events and pep rallies. I think he ended up trying to make a living at it. He's Santa-Claus shaped now and needs hip replacements. No insurance. (With ObamaCare you'd think he'd have it since he'd be eligible for subsidies if he was low-income and it would have to be cheaper than having surgery without it- I don't know the story there.) He also needs money to tide him over while he can't work. Wow. The people organizing it are my former classmates. I sent a contribution and I'm with them in spirit but it wasn't practical for me to fly from KS to OH to attend the benefit. (Besides, I had a 30-mile charity bike ride to do!)
I'm glad to see everyone pulling together to help him.
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Jun 14, 2014 17:08:13 GMT -5
I don't think about HS too much. I didn't fit in that well with people at my school so I didn't have any close friends there (I had friends but not close ones) The people were nice (not bullies or anything like that) but it was just a bad fit. I spent most of my time skipping school so I could hang out with my BFFs (One went to another HS in town-we would ditch together- and the other was a high school dropout-so she was available ). I did enjoy my time with them and we are still BFFs but the HS folks, no. I didn't even get invited to my 10 year reunion so I doubt I will get invited to any others (This despite the fact that my parents haven't moved in 30 years, my younger sister is friends with the sibs of most of my classmates, and I spent 10 years in school with the same people).
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Post by ZaireinHD on Jun 14, 2014 17:36:06 GMT -5
OH - right! about that so this - our community is the only 'social media' I am signed up to. I am say - concerned about having a FaceBook account. people are getting fired from work over the things they post on their FaceBook page! Actually that is correct about keeping in contact with HS class through FaceBook. maybe 5 to 7 years ago I was picking up a pizza order and the lady in front of me turns around and recognizes me instantly! but didn't remember my name! I was looking at her strange because I had NO clue who she is?? she said we went to high school together in the same class. Still no clue. she said her name - THEN I was like ohhh! ok hello! I have not seen her since HS! she is married with children, no we did not exchange numbers to keep in contact, no she didn't say if she lived in the neighborhood leading to why this is the first time seeing her at the pizza shop I normally went to, no she didn't give me an email address, and no I didn't ask or care to ask for any of that information. she did say I should get a FaceBook account, she keeps in contact with many others from HS. I did say there is one! there is only one woman I would like to see what or how is she now. I did ask and was told she is single and doing well. I had such a crush on her for the last two years of HS. (well - that's because she started to ummm...develop in the chest area during the last two years!)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 9:17:02 GMT -5
Today I will be passing along Vonnegut quotes:
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
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Post by billisonboard on Jun 16, 2014 9:37:15 GMT -5
Today I will be passing along Vonnegut quotes: "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." Obama is the first president who is younger than I am.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 16, 2014 10:39:52 GMT -5
I don't miss HS at all. Drove past our 5th reunion, it was the first I heard of it. Tenth was in someone's parents backyard. I didn't have any interest in doing that in HS, why would I want to now? IDK if there was a 15th, but I skipped the 20th last year too. They found me on Facebook and a bunch of them friended me around the time they were organizing and never said boo after I accepted requests. I cleaned out a bunch of them last year some time. We weren't friends before so why worry about them now? I existed through HS, I had friends, but still hated the whole thing. Too much stupid in the room most of the time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 12:10:18 GMT -5
I'm not sure i'd go right to 'stupid' at least in the non intelligent sense, but maybe too much fiction? too much lack of real world matters?
Another thing Vonnegut talked about in this book was how returning veterans turned the higher education system on its head coming home from WWII... not for the least reason that they were suddenly a whole student body unwilling to just accept that the professor was authority based merely upon dint of the professor simply having more world experience that the student. He likened it to coming to the table with loaded dice... totally unfair in the eyes of the prof...
High school was a little like that for me. I think most of us come around to the idea that ball games and pep rallies and class rings, etc. don't really mean all that much in the real/long run. Some people, i think, just gain real world experience of a certain ilk a bit earlier than others. Don't get me wrong. Like most teens i certainly thought i knew more about the world than i did. But somehow it seemed a lot of the stuff happening around me in HS was waaaaaay more important to the kids around me than the significance i could attach to the same events/things.
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Post by qofcc on Jun 16, 2014 20:38:25 GMT -5
I have fond memories of high school and I've been to all of the reunions... even helped plan a couple. I live about an hour away from my hometown. I still hang out with a few people I was friends with then on a regular basis & keep in touch with others on Facebook & see them when they're in town. I wasn't A-list popular (cheerleaders & prom queens) but I was definitely B-list (yearbook & honor society). Under 200 graduates so I knew almost everyone. I wouldn't say that was the best time of my life and at the time I wanted it to be over & be married & raising a family but they were good years... better than a good many more recent ones.
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 16, 2014 20:54:14 GMT -5
The friends I made in high school are still my friends to this day. I think there is something about changing from a child to a "man" during that time period that allows you to form done pretty tight bonds. I had several girlfriends in high school, and most are still friends with me. After we all went to college, getting passing grades took presidence over maintaining a social life so I really didn't make many friends there. I think deep down we all know high school sucked at the time, but when you look back it's hard not to get a warm fuzzy feeling about the " good old days ". Would I want to go back? Hell no, but it's fun to dwell on what I could have done differently and think about how different my life would be now if I had. maybe I'm a late bloomer, but this is how I feel about my college crew. we bonded over midnight study sessions in the classroom buildings (until the overnight cleaners threw us out) and can pick up where we left off when we all get together. some of the crew is now far-flung, but most of us stayed local - many of us were local to begin with. and no, I do not ever want to relive senior capstone design. <shudder>
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 17, 2014 8:30:07 GMT -5
maybe I'm a late bloomer, but this is how I feel about my college crew. we bonded over midnight study sessions in the classroom buildings (until the overnight cleaners threw us out) and can pick up where we left off when we all get together. some of the crew is now far-flung, but most of us stayed local - many of us were local to begin with.
and no, I do not ever want to relive senior capstone design. <shudder>
The nature of our program required a lot of huge, time consuming projects and our classes were pretty small all things considered. We had a few lecture hall classes but most of the 300 and 400 level classes were capped at 20 people. We'd hunker down and be in the classroom for like 24 to 36 hours. We had a big smart board thing so we'd watch movies, order in pizza, hang out in our pjs. It was awesome. Nothing says bonding time like sitting at your drafting table at 3am laughing like a hyena because you forgot what paint colors to mix to get a specific shade of blue. One night we were so exhausted it took 9 of us to figure out the mat-cutter.
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 17, 2014 9:58:19 GMT -5
I tried to find the specific commercial on YouTube, but no luck. boo. anyway - remember when Mt Dew commercials were all about the extreme sports, and linking the high caffeine levels in the drink to how much energy you'd have for all those extreme sports? well, there was one commercial that had the normal guys from the commercial, all dressed in white coats, walking thru an ER. and the commercial was a series of extreme sports wipeouts - and the guys would cringe as they watched a clip of each one. my college roomie (also a ChE) and I were studying for finals in the living room of our dorm apt, with the tv on for background noise. this commercial came on, and the two of us just lost it. we laughed so hard, we were crying. we were so loud that the other two roomies, who had been studying in their bedrooms, came out to check on us. it took us a good 45 minutes to fully calm down. one of us would get ourself in check only to lose it all over again when the other snickered. it was bad. we saw the commercial again a few days later and couldn't figure out what was so damn funny about it the first time. lack of sleep does some strange things sometimes.
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Post by ZaireinHD on Jun 18, 2014 17:44:37 GMT -5
lets say HS students do keep in contact and can make arrangements for a reunion. I'm thinking there is a cost to a reunion? who pays?
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Post by billisonboard on Jun 18, 2014 17:49:29 GMT -5
lets say HS students do keep in contact and can make arrangements for a reunion. I'm thinking there is a cost to a reunion? who pays? The kid that always did - the one that has his lunch money fall out of his pockets when turned upside down.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 17:51:40 GMT -5
Usually you buy a 'ticket' and that pays for it. Some have fundraisers.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 18, 2014 19:53:18 GMT -5
I think High School is the last time in your life when you will try anything new and think that maybe you could be good at it. I guess you have a little of that by college - but I had already eliminated a bunch of things that I knew I would never be good at.
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Post by billisonboard on Jun 18, 2014 20:13:04 GMT -5
I think High School is the last time in your life when you will try anything new and think that maybe you could be good at it. I guess you have a little of that by college - but I had already eliminated a bunch of things that I knew I would never be good at. Wow! I have an extremely large skill set that I didn't start developing until my thirties. Here in my fifties I am continuing to gain new skills. Nothing new from 18-80? Again, Wow!
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 18, 2014 20:28:00 GMT -5
I think High School is the last time in your life when you will try anything new and think that maybe you could be good at it. I guess you have a little of that by college - but I had already eliminated a bunch of things that I knew I would never be good at. Wow! I have an extremely large skill set that I didn't start developing until my thirties. Here in my fifties I am continuing to gain new skills. Nothing new from 18-80? Again, Wow! I didn't say you couldn't learn ANYTHING. Just that you feel like you can learn EVERYTHING. In high school I tried whatever I wanted. Now there are certain things that I just plain couldn't do - like attempt to become Miss America. (And no, becoming Mrs. America for those old lady pageants is not the same.) I can learn all kinds of things, but there are a bunch of things that I either already eliminated, or it just isn't going to happen.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jun 18, 2014 22:06:22 GMT -5
I've never understood the high school thing, but I was only in high school for 27 weeks. I'm fairly certain that there are only a couple people from what would have been my graduating class that even remember me. There were almost 800 people in my freshman class, so it's not one of those everyone knew everyone kind of things.
The group of friends I had when I was 15-18 all still keep in touch though, and get together fairly often. For people who spend those years in high school I can see why the friendships they form seem so strong. There's something about entering adulthood with people that makes you feel extremely close. If I'd still been in high school through that period I would probably have some pretty strong friendships with folks in my graduating class and feel more nostalgic about high school.
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Post by billisonboard on Jun 18, 2014 22:41:53 GMT -5
... Now there are certain things that I just plain couldn't do - like attempt to become Miss America. ... While it is possible for a 17 year old to enter the pageant, most winners are post high school when they become contestants. They are obviously trying something post high school and discovering they are good at it. www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/missamerica/sfeature/sf_list.html
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Post by ZaireinHD on Jun 19, 2014 0:59:56 GMT -5
I think High School is the last time in your life when you will try anything new and think that maybe you could be good at it. I guess you have a little of that by college - but I had already eliminated a bunch of things that I knew I would never be good at. yea that's funny! guess that's why the lemonaide stands in the local park works as a child - but try as an adult! LOL so people purchase tickets to the event or pay at the door. ok I get that. cause I was thinking the location (the High School) is free. but decorations, name tags, food, music, people/person time to set up and make arrangements (the coordinator) etc. all has to be paid first.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 5:58:32 GMT -5
Our reunions haven't been at the school. A pig roast picnic, dinner and dancing somewhere... Never actually at the school.... I went to 5 and 10... Haven't felt the need since.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 19, 2014 8:07:09 GMT -5
lets say HS students do keep in contact and can make arrangements for a reunion. I'm thinking there is a cost to a reunion? who pays? I would much rather pay for a decent reunion than for the crappy ass one they are planning now. It's in a random bar in a sketchy part of town because some kid from our class bartended there 15 years ago. As I said before someone was shot there last month and just the other day 3 people were stabbed there. So I'm not exactly thrilled.
I asked why we couldn't go somewhere nicer, even if we had to charge $20 a ticket and I was told "that's too expensive for some people and we don't want them to feel they can't attend".
I hate to be a bitch but they've been planning this for nearly a year. If you are closing in on 40, and with a year to save, can't come up with $20 you have some serious problems in your life.
Cash bar, no food, no entertainment. My idea of fun (Not at all).
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 19, 2014 8:21:25 GMT -5
... Now there are certain things that I just plain couldn't do - like attempt to become Miss America. ... While it is possible for a 17 year old to enter the pageant, most winners are post high school when they become contestants. They are obviously trying something post high school and discovering they are good at it. www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/missamerica/sfeature/sf_list.html I don't think I am explaining myself very well. In high school your future has endless possibilities - including dreaming about becoming Miss America, or going to the Olympics or whatever. As you age, you start to realize there are things you will never do. You have to find some approximation - like joining the "Sun City Senior Pageant" or running a marathon and pretending it is the Olympics. I will never be a rock star or perform on Broadway. Sure, I can go do community theater - but it is not the same.
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