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[betweenthebliss]

well. i think my stomach finally gave my brain the memo that i can't drink for eight hours straight and not regret it in the morning. i'm a little sad that my last morning at MHC was spent in misery, but people were leaving or had already left, and all i had planned for the day was bumming around noho and spending irresponsible amounts of money on

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[oimizza]

You get the banner burried with you? How long has this tradition been going on and can we get a hold of the list of who was burried with each year's banner...I feel like that could make for a great road trip/photo journal.

[usually9_15]

I think that's a wonderful idea... and what a great idea for a book, don't you think? A picture documentary of the last living alums from classes and their lives, the time they came from, etc. etc.

[betweenthebliss]

yeah, seriously. it's not every class that does the buried-with-the-banner thing, but even still, that'd be an amazing project.

[usually9_15]

I nominate us for this project.

[syncopated_time]

Sometimes I sort of regret going to such large, faceless schools for both high school and college. I mean, let's face it -- Penn State's alumni traditions all involve tailgating in the hot sun and then watching a football game while getting pelted with soda and nachos from the upper levels when State scores a goal. It nearly goes without saying I haven't been back since I graduated.

Like, trying to imagine the senior class getting together to do anything is kind of laughable, because they're so big the only place they would all fit is the stadium or the arena... Not to mention that 3/4s for them would be drunk and forget to show up.

I attended big schools because at the time I was looking for a place to be a face in the crowd. I like my anonymity. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit jealous of you, what with friendship and meaningful traditions and all.

tl;dr That's really damn cool and I'm jealous!

[darkest_light]

I went to school with betweenthebliss, but my sister went to a big nameless school. And I was really surprised to find that her graduation ceremony was way more intimate than mine was. Because they divided it up by department, it meant that there was a lot more focus on the individual graduates.

[syncopated_time]

Ours was divided too -- I think there were 8-12 separate ceremonies over two days, held in various locations across campus.

I graduated in a small auditorium with a few hundred people. It was small and intimate but I still felt deeply disconnected because I didn't really have a chance to bond with any of the people in my major. We all shared the agony of studio together but we rarely ran into each other outside of that, either in classes or socially.

I don't mean to say that I didn't have different social circles to play in because I absolutely did. It's more that there was never a sense of cohesion or tradition among my classmates, either within my major or in the school as a whole because it was simply too much.

[darkest_light]

Yeah, our graduating classes are all ::really:: tight. When she came out to my graduation, my sister said "It's like you have one campus-wide sorority!"

[darkest_light]

Congrats to you and lauralyrics! You'll make excellent class scribes.

I am so, so jealous of your weekend.

[betweenthebliss]

:3 thanks honey. and hey, you'll see me at yours next year. i have too many friends in your class not to show up. ;) it just seems so surreal that it's been that long, you know? like i said, part of it is that once you're back on campus and with those people it feels like almost no time has passed. idk. i really needed it. :"}

[nickhornby]

One correction, lovely (not on any of the sentiment)--we've written into our class bylaws or somewhere that the last surviving member of the class gets the banner. It is something we picked up from other classes, but it's not something that every single 'yoke class does...

...even though I think they should ;).

So wonderful to see you this weekend, and so so so happy that you're going to be one of our scribes!

[betweenthebliss]

ohhhh my god that's even cooler. i mean, i think they should too, but that we decided it is awesome. my god, i love our class. seriously. it really is so funny to me that i bonded with so many people in '06 but my heart is so firmly in '05. like, i'll never not know i belong there, and that's pretty amazing. :"}

it was soooo good to see you too, and to meet val! :D it was way too short, but so awesome. ♥

[thelastcity]

You saw me! And it was glorious. I'm also sort of in your boat re: most of your friends are 06, though most of mine are 05, 07, and 08.

Also, I LOVE your tag life: toast to those who boast

[betweenthebliss]

i DID and it WAS. and at some point i'm going to go to boston on a weekend where i don't have a million things to do, and put out a PSA on facebook that any mohos in the area should convene on a bar so we can carouse. cus dude, this needs to happen WAY more often than it does. XD

and ee, thanks. it took me a minute to think of a good one, but once i thought of that i was like yep, sold. XD