College reunion

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My 25th college reunion is this year, and as ever I don't feel I measure up to my classmates. You should see the beautiful polished (probably retouched!) photo of our class president with her careful makeup and executive hair on the website with the advance publicity for the reunion. I expect there will be much angst in this journal over the next four months.

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I went to a very large university; we didn't have a class president, thankfully. The closest were the tri-executives of the student union, but they could be from any class or even grad students.

My 25th college reunion was last year and I missed it because I couldn't afford the flights to the US in the summer. But I wouldn't have gone there simply for the reunion; I would have gone there to visit friends and the city. (I went to the University of Colorado at Boulder.) My 30th high-school reunion is this autumn. Yes, my high school holds its reunions in early November, so even when I was in Colorado it was inconvenient (my high school is by Philly, and I stayed in Colorado after graduation until I moved to England) for me as a teacher. I've only made one reunion -- and that was for the 25th anniversary of the International Thespian Society at my high school and the retirement of the teacher who brought it there. That reunion was in May, on a weekend, and people from all 25 years were invited. I was still in Colorado, so I took a personal day and flew to Philly for it, figuring I'd see friends from other years as well. And I did, unlike the class reunion where it's just one year -- and a bunch of people I didn't know. (My graduating class was just under 800!)

I won't be making my 30th high-school reunion in November. I can't afford to take leave without pay to fly to the US. (We get lots of sick time, but we don't really have personal leave.)