What's it like at a high school reunion?

I got my 5 year (closer to 6 now) supposedly coming up soon. Should be interesting. I don't really have any beef with anyone from my class, and have no intention to try to flex on people. Don't really care if people try to flex on me--I'm doing quite well relative to my class and I don't get insulted by that type of stuff. I'd be much more jealous of someone out exploring the world compared to someone who thinks they're hot shit because they work back office at State Street and thinks they're #WallStreet or whatever. I think it'll be nice to see the people who I didn't stay or even become friends with, and hopefully everyone is more mature and amicable.

But seriously, people who think they should be flexing their iNvEsTmEnT bAnKeR nuts need to get their fuckin reality checked. Its a job, and good for you for getting it. Trying to one up people with it doesn't make you cool, it just makes you an asshole. Like seriously who cares if people know what a job in finance is or not. Have real human interaction and just connect with people. Not everything needs to be a contest.

A story I saw on the internet:

A guys approaches the restaurant where his reunion is taking place and sees a former classmate smoking a cig outside. The guy smoking the cig says, "There is a lot of unfinished business in that room."

I have fond memories of HS and have hung out with a couple ppl from back then now and again and enjoyed it.

That said, 0% chance I would ever go back to my hometown for a reunion. Maybe I’d consider it if I still lived nearby and Netflix was experiencing an outage, but I still think I’d rather get in a couple extra hours of sleep even then.

I never understood the point of a high school reunion

5 year seems too early (just barely out of college at that point), but I’ll consider going to 10 year if it works into my schedule. I haven’t really talked to any high school friends since basically graduation, and it wouldn’t be bad to catch up. I’m cringing just thinking about all the pathetic flexing that will probably be going on, though.

I've never heard of a five year reunion. It seems everyone I know had their first one at ten but I felt it was like scrolling through Facebook. Lots of people humble bragging about their children and talking about how they thought life would be different after ten years. It was pretty pointless.

Never gone to one since I'm not a loser lmao

My school is a bit different but we have alumni day every year since graduating high school and essentially we go back and talk to the current high schoolers about the college experience. This year was my first time going back post grad and it’s pretty cool to see what everyone I went to middle and high school with doing. A bunch of law and med school kids. My culture really knows nothing about a Finance and Consulting. Either way it’s pretty nice to see how far everyone come especially since we were all low income

I grew up in a suburb of a tier 2/3 city that is not heavily finance focused. I went to a high-school a little further away from the city. At my 5 year only one other person even knew what private equity was. If you are trying to impress someone with finance unless your high school fed particularly well into high finance, most people, especially girls when they hear finance they don't know the difference between working selling insurance at Northwest Mutual and working at Blackstone.

Other than that it was fun, drinks were so much cheaper than I could have possibly imagined (Shoutout to suburb bars) In 5 years basically nothing had changed, except some people had definitely taken some serious punches over the years. Most were still cheerful people but career wise couldn't really speak to anyone on the same page,

If you're from one of the Type A cities (NY, SF, LA, maybe DC) then I have to imagine all the one-upmanship is insufferable.

I'm from a smaller midwestern town and if anyone tried to flex about their Wall St career at a reunion they'd get laughed out of the room, nobody cares about that shit or even understands what it means. If you're lucky, people will hear "banker" and think you were at the center of the financial crisis instead of thinking you're the guy at the chase branch who opens accounts.

I haven't been to one yet but I genuinely hope someone plans a 10 year reunion (which is next year for me). I actually want to talk to people that chose a different, arguable more interesting, career path than I have. I find most of my friends now are from a similar socioeconomic class, very career driven, and type-A. Going to a highschool reunion might be a way to connect with people outside of my circle who has shared a common past, albeit briefly.

The guy who we voted "class clown" in high school got drunk off his ass. At one point he blacked out and fell right on his face. - like if the leaning tower of pisa just kept going. 20 seconds of everyone frozen and staring. Then he shakes, stands up, brushes himself off, stumbles to a microphone and gives a 20 minute rambling speech about how amazing high school was.

He went home that night with one of our high school band clarinet players - think glasses, acne, overweight - who is now very attractive competitive runner for a major shoe brand.

I'll be 27 next year. I graduated at 17. Nobody has hit me up yet to go to this shit. I was really looking forward to spending a solid 5 minutes leaned back in my chair fantasizing about showing up to blow smoke in everyone's faces and throw 5s at their wives' feet and then ignoring the message. Such a message, I have yet to receive!

I moved back to Europe shortly after undergrad - told a few of my friends that I regretted not going to my ten year reunion to see them. They all told me it would have been weird if I had bothered flying over across the world just for what essentially consists of them going to the same dive bar they meet up at regularly. All my friends work easy jobs, enjoy life, don't stress on a trading floor, don't try to one up each other or stay at the office until 2am every day closing a deal. They are content with a micro brew. They moved to cheaper locations and own a house usually 5 years after high school and tons of land. It took me 15 years since high school to buy a house in London.

Simplicity is beautiful - my friends in high school were simple and I miss them. I should have gone to my reunion and regret not taking the flight. On the bright side I went to one of said friend's wedding recently and that felt a bit like a mini high school reunion. Love them folks. I miss my American high school. Life is easy on the west coast - they even prepared me a bunch of "brownies" when I showed up and picked me up at the airport in one of my friend's busted out old buick. I get shivers just thinking about them - going to go call some of them this weekend as a tear rolls down my cheek and I think of all of my buds from high school I haven't seen in ages. Six of them made it to my wedding in London five years ago - two of them saved for three months just for the plane ticket. I fucking love them so much and I am not even drunk!

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