School yearbooks. What a waste. :bummer:

[X2]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

@kurripunjaban

^^we do now, like over the last 2-3 years theyve become really common. before we just had end of year balls, or a leavers dinner.

well end of year ball really was a diff name for a prom. its really the same thing

[Straight_up]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

@Mirch

What purpose do they serve ?
Isn’t it waste of money and lots of trees get killed to print millions of year books.
Why do people need yearbooks for their elementary , middle and high schools. I understand year books for under graduate and graduate level serve a purpose. They get sent to potential employers.
Can the schools switch to a virtual year book system now ? It is not difficult in this day and age. The digital yearbook will last forever and save lots of trees.

Yearbooks serve the same purpose as the photos you take of your friends and family. It’s definitely not a waste of paper - and most institutions nowadays have an option of a digital copy of the yearbook. However, this option isn’t as popular - with a real yearbook, you get people to sign and write comments on it which you can later look back at and enjoy.

I have all my yearbooks and so do my sisters - we look back at them and realise what kind of stages we went through growing up.

Btw, I have never heard of a uni yearbook.

[S08]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

oh i didnt buy the yearbook, but i bought school ring though thats high school.

[maroush]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

When i was a student, we did our own ‘Uni yearbook’ thing if you can call it that… a notebook per person, and you get people to sign it, write comments etc about your time together… put in pictures… i guess that is a yearbook but it would’ve been better if the institution did it for us

PS: WTH is a school ring?? A ring you wear on your hand with the school logo on it??

[Lucid_Chaotic]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

@Straight_up

Btw, I have never heard of a uni yearbook.

At the Universities I’ve been to… this was usually a departmental thing - usually organized by a student association within that specific department.

[S08]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

yes maroush, school ring has school logo on it, your name, and graduation date..

10k gold…lol

[Afro-Sheen]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

Yeah school ring, is a ring you get to pick out with the school logo on it, pick out your color, and it can also have your name & year of graduation..like class of 2009…etc…they were pretty neat and cool to get in high school, but college…i thought it was a waste of money. That much $$ I can get a nice pretty semi-precious ring

[S08]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

^yep agree with u..i have high school ring

[Pareezay]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

wow.. i don’t even remember where i kept mine.. pretty useless, honestly.

as for the ring, i never bought one but i know my husband did in his junior year and he always wore it until mid-uni. couple of days after we got married, he gave it to me saying he wanted me to have his ring it’s too big for me to wear though.

[maroush]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

^ Ok, are you kidding?? I just googled what they look like… it’s like something garish Mr T would wear!

Regardless of my opinion, it was still a nice gesture though from your hubby, Shay

[Pareezay]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

Haha, no I am not kidding, maybe you just saw the ugly designs There are a few designs you can choose from. Good thing his taste is good so the ring was so cute with his initials and grad date It’s still too big for me to wear so I might as well make a pendant out of it.

[Pareezay]

Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

@Afro-Sheen

Yeah school ring, is a ring you get to pick out with the school logo on it, pick out your color, and it can also have your name & year of graduation..like class of 2009…etc…they were pretty neat and cool to get in high school, but college…i thought it was a waste of money. That much $$ I can get a nice pretty semi-precious ring

You’re right, they weren’t as popular in college as they were in high school. Seemed like everyone was dying to get the high school rings, it was the biggest excitement of becoming a junior. In college it was like, ehh whatever.