I got my alumni t-shirt from school today. 
I did find my name a little after I got it, and I found some classmates’ names (mainly other art majors and Capstone classmates). I also found some names from non-studio art classes (Spanish, Art and Mass Media…) and one from church (I don’t know if she still goes though). Aaaaand I also managed to find some names from my grade at my old middle school (including one of my friends). I already knew two of them were going to this university (thanks to Facebook :P), but I was able to find a couple three* others. These are people I haven’t heard anything about in ten years.
*[Edit: 9:45pm] I forgot one.
And what’s more is the t-shirt that I got when I graduated middle school? The guy whose name is next to mine on that shirt is also has his name next to mine on this new shirt. 
Wow. I think one of the staff at church (who graduated from this same university) said we sit with our majors during Commencement, but if they didn’t have us do that, they’d probably alphabetize us and we’d be sitting next to each other again. o_O
So, I am on a mission. I am going to somehow reap every single name on here that I recognize, just so I could go “wow, I know all these people.” :3
Sorry. I’m done squeeeeing now. ^^
A few others things:
- One thing that bugs me is that some of the names have a period right in between the first and last names, like “John.Smith”.
- There are at least 7 students at this school with the same last name. I didn’t know it was a common last name (either that, or some of them are related).
May 14th, 2008 @ 8:52 pm
Darn messy databases. (Well, I hope it was a database, and that someone didn’t manually type in “John.Smith” on the shirt. I think I’ve found something worse than two spaces after a period! *laugh*)
May 14th, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
^^ I think it might have to do with how everyone’s usernames are formatted (john.smith123, with “123″ being three random numbers). I guess someone manually went through each name, capitalized them, removed the numbers and replaced the period with a space, so they might have forgotten a few…
(Then again, it might be unlikely, since you’d think they would have everyone’s actual names on file. :/)
May 14th, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
I’d hope so, but your though makes sense.
It’s cool that you get all the grads on a shirt. I never got one of those shirts. Middle school, not that cool. High school, homeschooled. College, waaaay too big.
May 14th, 2008 @ 11:00 pm
Cal Poly Alumni T-shirts + pants set
What did your middle school shirt look like?
May 15th, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
Hahaha, I’d have names all over my butt!
Oh, I meant that I didn’t get one in middle school. I guess it was a big class. :| I remember for the panorama that the photographer had to keep moving back to fit everyone into the picture.
And now that I think about it, I didn’t get one in elementary school either. Maybe it wasn’t done then? I know my brothers got one from their school.
May 15th, 2008 @ 7:49 pm
Wow.
I actually didn’t get one in elementary school either. The feeling and excitement of moving on from elementary school to middle school was almost non-existent. ._.
Then again, I don’t think we really moved onto middle school until the 7th grade, since before then, our school was an elementary school (K-6 at first, then 4th-8th grade). And somewhere down the line, it turned into a middle school and all the elementary kids were sent to the new nearby elementary school (formerly a Pre-K to 3rd grade). Kind of weird. :3
But ummm…I guess we didn’t get a shirt because we never had to move to a new school when we advanced to middle school.