Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 18:32     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Anonymous wrote:Yes- pretty much. I often ask people if they are a fellow local.

Also, how do you know if someone is a UVA grad? You’ll be told within minutes of meeting. 😆


Truer words were never written😂😂
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 18:28     Subject: Re:Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Friends, mostly yes, with exception of some people we met through our kids where it's never come up. But a lot of my friends are from grad school or post-grad years where it would come up often, plus you just learn it over the years based on meeting people through them ("this is my roommate from Michigan") or finding out what college football team they root for, or seeing them in a college tee at the gym.

Neighbors no idea unless we are also friends.

Colleagues sometimes but as I get older less and less. By 40 no one cares where anyone went to school at all.


I'm 50+ and I always want to know where people went to school. Says a lot about them.

What does it say? Can you give some examples? What if someone went to Case Western and what if someone went to JMU?
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 18:26     Subject: Re:Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Anonymous wrote:Friends, mostly yes, with exception of some people we met through our kids where it's never come up. But a lot of my friends are from grad school or post-grad years where it would come up often, plus you just learn it over the years based on meeting people through them ("this is my roommate from Michigan") or finding out what college football team they root for, or seeing them in a college tee at the gym.

Neighbors no idea unless we are also friends.

Colleagues sometimes but as I get older less and less. By 40 no one cares where anyone went to school at all.


I'm 50+ and I always want to know where people went to school. Says a lot about them.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 18:25     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Yes, but I have two kids in high school so college is a frequent topic of conversation for me with everyone. Most people are on LinkedIn so it's easy to find out where people went. I find it comes up in conversation more than people think. Discussing college football and other sports, different areas of the country one has visited/recently traveled to, where someone grew up can naturally lead to a conversation on where someone went to college.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:23     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Anonymous wrote:Usually. It’s a key data point


Same.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:20     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Yes for close friends, no for neighbors.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:20     Subject: Re:Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Friends, mostly yes, with exception of some people we met through our kids where it's never come up. But a lot of my friends are from grad school or post-grad years where it would come up often, plus you just learn it over the years based on meeting people through them ("this is my roommate from Michigan") or finding out what college football team they root for, or seeing them in a college tee at the gym.

Neighbors no idea unless we are also friends.

Colleagues sometimes but as I get older less and less. By 40 no one cares where anyone went to school at all.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:20     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Yes, usually.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:19     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Anonymous wrote:Yes- pretty much. I often ask people if they are a fellow local.

Also, how do you know if someone is a UVA grad? You’ll be told within minutes of meeting. 😆

Lol +100
Almost always expecting something in return and are left awkwardly standing there when you don't give them the reaction they want.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:17     Subject: Re:Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Yes, because it’s all the same handful of schools- HPYS, Columbia, and Williams grads make up most of the people I interact with in a week. Next door neighbors went to W&L and Duke.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:14     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Family and close friends: yes.

Everyone else: if they told me, I forgot.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:13     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
The only time I went "huh" when I found out where someone went to college was when it was BYU because they didn't seem to be Mormon (drank alcohol and coffee). They clarified they'd left the church, however.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:12     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Yes- pretty much. I often ask people if they are a fellow local.

Also, how do you know if someone is a UVA grad? You’ll be told within minutes of meeting. 😆
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:10     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
Close friends, yes. Members of my board game group? Neighbors, and parents of my kids' friends, not really.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 17:07     Subject: Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?
I know where my friends went to college.