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

So... Not a teacher and only been to one School reunion - after about 15-20 years

We got in contact via 'friendsreunited' (if anyone remembers that) and I was chatting with a couple of people in the weeks leading up to the reunion

I was making jokes about seeing a girl - Carol - who everyone wanted to 'be friends' with. Making jokes about how she was a flirt and probably had been through a couple of husbands by now, when someone informed me that she had died of cancer at age 20

Once at the reunion, I asked 'whatever happened to Gary L'... Gary was a joker, he was friends with everyone and, somehow, able to fit in with all the different factions at school.

I was told that Good ol' Gary was in prison, on multiple counts of Possession of CP

You wouldn't catch me dead at one of those things, but thanks to Facebook snooping (very carefully so I don't accidentally like photos or friend anyone) I have seen some interesting things. The prom king is still cool, the prom queen is some kind of big wig in the army and the quiet nice kid is a body builder. The popular kids are the keeping up with the Joneses types. Nothing impressive except lots of hair dye and Botox.

I hope someone snooped through mine to see that I still listen to backstreet boys and kept the two best friends I had back than. We took different paths but we're all still the same only older and smarter.

My class organized the last one using Facebook to locate lost classmates. One of the girls contacted replied with a “don’t ever contact me again” response. The thing was, I got the vibe it was because she was being abused and not because she didn’t like her classmates. I went to my 20-year and it was okay. But I really don’t have an interest in going back for another. It’s like you in some ways revert your behavior to the last time you hung out together. I’ve had 4 or 5 classmates pass away over the years. Heart attack, car wreck, cancer.

I went to my 40th anniversary. Class of 300 seniors, around 100 showed up. It was surprising how the cliques from high school instantly re-emerged.

At 57, I was still in good shape, had all my hair, hardly any gray. That put me in a pretty small minority of the guys. Lots of bald guys with gray hair on the sides.

Some of the hottest girls from high school were not remotely good looking any more, while some of the normal looking girls who were nice back then were still nice and were more beautiful than ever.

Some of the people would say stuff like “Oh, I’m retired now. Cashed in my stock from Blah buh dee dah.” Or, “I now just work part time for the investment firm I started thirty years ago.” A few were hoping that old connections could help them find work.

I didn’t bring my wife or kids, but a few people did. Those who did seemed like they were doing it to say “I know you thought I’d never find a girl” but realistically they were probably thinking “Whatever, I haven’t thought about you even once since high school.”

I didn’t stay too long, but it was nice to see some people. I’d go back for the 50th if I make it to 67 and haven’t moved too far away.

My 10 year reunion had 2 different parties.

1st one hosted by the old student council was a 2 day event with 1st day being just the class and the 2nd day being family as well. Cost was to put up x amount for a hotel, food, etc.

2nd one was by the popular kids who thought the first one was stupid (I agree) and just rent out a bar and have a good time.

I went to neither because I only talk to maybe 3 people from high school and really didn't care. Plus I'm fatter now and no one needs to see that lol.

Obligatory, I am not a teacher and so this is not quite on topic, it just stirs up a thought or two, personally.

I was class President, in charge of organizing reunions. Small town, small school. I didn't see the point in a five year reunion, I told everyone in our class facebook group. A few people still banded together to do something but to my knowledge it didn't really take form.

We approach 8 1/2 years and there's activity on the class Facebook group, people already talking about the ten year reunion. I realize people have work and families but if the reunion were to be held in the summer the start of this conversation would be about 20 months ahead of time.

Not faulting people for being excited either. But they were frustrated. Once the discussion started these dozen or so people seemed basically panicked that they had not heard anything about it at that point. I hadn't considered doing anything extravagant, I'd barely considered it at all honestly, and assumed 10-12 months would be ample time for those interested to make plans for a Saturday evening, and I figured it was best to poll everyone for a convenient date.

But these people didn't waste much time before starting into some passive-aggressive s**t talk (some of it not so passive at all, come to think of it). Within 24 hrs they were already considering voting someone new to take charge, among about the dozen of them.

A few people popped in here or there to ask why they were so worked up so early, and a few others kind of came to my defense. But a number of those in that group talked about speaking to a convincing number of other classmates, many by name, and expressed that those others had concerns too.

What I assumed would be a relaxed event and simple planning process suddenly seemed like a massive pain in the a*s. No chance did I have the dedication to deliver them the event they felt they deserved.

I posted my 'official resignation' in the group and wished them luck. They elected the wrong guy... I never realized til then what those high school years and/or reliving them for an evening might mean to people. Since graduating high school I've neither been successful or a total failure, maybe that prevents me from feeling the same, one way or the other. I hate to admit this, not even sure if it's really accurate, but I think their excitement turned me off the idea. Or maybe it was just overwhelming or intimidating.

Did what I thought was best. Did it make me secretly a little butthurt, yeah a bit I guess. But it also felt like a weight was lifted. I don't know how the reunion went, or if they even wound up doing one. And while I legitimately liked every single one of my classmates, missing out on the possible reunion doesn't really bother me... Kind of having my character called into question over something I hadn't considered a huge priority, however, did rub me a little wrong.

I had my 10 year reunion last summer and like I predicted hardly anyone showed up. I was so jazzed to go because of all the cartoons I watched growing up as a kid talking about reunions and I showed up to this empty hall and was like, "Yep, we always keep the bar low around here."

my school has one every year for all classes, so sometimes parents and children will go together and sometimes even grandparents.

My one friend went and from what I've heard the only people there graduated before 95, none of the younger generations showed up save a few who were just curious to see what it is.

Its all Karens and 40 to 50-year-old men who pretend like they all graduated a few years ago. The same type of people who constantly brag about that one game where they won the season and talk about nothing else, and middle-aged suburban housewives trying to sell mlms while asking to speak to the coach of their son's little league team to get him more time on the field.

My 10 year happened at the bar I worked at. I never got an invite but I dropped out so I didn't expect one. I had a bit of a drinking problem at that time and managed to get myself fired the morning of the reunion. So I didn't crash the party like I had planned.

There's a lot of comments here about the "Popular kids", but that seems rather silly. They are a social group who communicate, and the others... aren't. Why is there no one here saying that "all of the non popular kids threw a reunion"?

I went to my 10 year, about 50 people out of about 600 were there... and even still, I hung out ONLY with my friends who I had maintained contact with anyway.