# College yearbook? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918 "2019-02-04T00:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/1 "2019-02-04T00:58:23Z")
I graduated from a small liberal arts college in 1977. No yearbook. Other Doper’s experenices? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/2 "2019-02-04T01:03:12Z")
Graduated from a small liberal arts college around then. Yearbook. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/3 "2019-02-04T01:35:51Z")
Graduated from a large university in Canada. There was a university yearbook, showing all the grads in each school, plus the individual schools had their own yearbooks. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/4 "2019-02-04T01:50:36Z")
My undergrad university was a major institution, so of course it had a yearbook, but I didn’t participate. I never proffered a photo and as far as I know never appeared in it anywhere else. My graduate school was the University of Hawaii at Manoa, another major facility, but no one I knew participated in the yearbook. Seemed to be more of an undergraduate thing. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/5 "2019-02-04T02:37:17Z")
We had one, but I pretty much ignored it. I might be in some group pictures of student organizations or shots of campus events, I’m not sure, but I never bothered with getting an individual picture taken. (I kind of regret that now; they had a bunch of them out on a table last time I was up for a college reunion, and it might have been nice to have some old pictures to look at. Oh well.) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/6 "2019-02-04T02:43:29Z")
I went to a large public university (UC San Diego) for undergrad and grad school. If there was a yearbook, I was totally unaware of it. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/7 "2019-02-04T02:44:26Z")
My state university (mid 90s) had one but I never got into it or even knew (or tried to find out) how to get a photo taken and entered into it. I grabbed one the first year since I was in the admin building and there was a stack of them for “free” (included in tuition fees) but quickly realized that it was a waste of space. Never grabbed another or thought about them and no one I knew ever mentioned them. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/8 "2019-02-04T04:49:22Z")
I went to a small, but very famous, private university in California. We had a yearbook and it was a big deal. Everyone got a copy every year. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/9 "2019-02-04T04:52:57Z")
I just went through a box last week and found mine. Otherwise I’m not sure I would even have remembered. I went to a large, well-known private university, and they had annual yearbooks, but I only purchased the one for my senior year. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/10 "2019-02-04T05:11:34Z")
Why is everyone being so damn coy? Why can’t you just say where you went to college? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/11 "2019-02-04T05:35:40Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Why is everyone being so damn coy? Why can’t you just say where you went to college? Because there are assholes here who can & will use that knowledge to find out your real ID, then post your FB page etc on another MB. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/12 "2019-02-04T06:12:34Z")
I went to a medium sized university. No yearbook so far as I know. Even if there was one, I wouldn’t quite see the point of it. According to wiki, it has about 5000 students with about 1000 of them living on campus. The only people I really knew where the students that were in the same major as me (so we had pretty much the same classes every day for the last 3 semesters or so) and the ones that were physically near me in the dorms. A normal yearbook (for the school) might not have made sense, but one for the dorms would have. I think most of us were much closer to the people we spent a few years living with than the people we saw twice a week for an hour, for one semester and never thought about again. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/13 "2019-02-04T08:43:43Z")
I went to a large state university. I have absolutely no idea if there was a yearbook. I’m certain there wasn’t a high school-style one with everyone’s picture included, because even if that was physically feasible (it wasn’t), I never had my picture taken by the university except once for my ID card. Looking it up, there was one, but it’s just pictures of activities happening around the campus each year. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/14 "2019-02-04T11:25:56Z")
Purdue had a yearbook in the late 70s and the only reason I know is that one year, the printer (publisher?) screwed up and labeled all the Engineering majors as English majors. :eek: Caused quite a ruckus among some students. I never wanted one, never saw one, was never photographed for one. After high school, the idea of a yearbook seemed silly. It’s not like sitting in a Physics lecture hall with 300 other students is a memorable shared experience… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/15 "2019-02-04T13:41:26Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Why is everyone being so damn coy? Why can’t you just say where you went to college? Us ivy leaguers don’t wanna sound all hoitytoity. ETA: I did zero extracurricular stuff, just went to classes, took exams, and worked. No clue on wether there was a yearbook. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/16 "2019-02-04T14:07:43Z")
My school made them. Never saw one for when I attended. OTOH, a sibling went there earlier and for some reason got the freshman year one. (The only year they went there.) So I saw that. Only seniors had pictures in it. I don’t get why it was bought. Since I graduated in 3 years, I wasn’t a traditional “Class of XX” senior. Never thought of getting my pic taken for the yearbook. (I didn’t do this in high school either. Nor did the **FtGKids**.) Also, due to the times and nature of the student body a _lot_ of students took \>4 years to graduate. So the “Class of XX” nomenclature wasn’t used in general. Among the events that were included was Timothy Leary’s “tune in, turn on, drop out” appearance. And the student body president was a open communist who was investigated by HUAC. The 60s and yearbooks don’t seem to go together. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/17 "2019-02-04T15:15:39Z")
Large state university. We had/have yearbooks, but for the most part were a freshman thing. They required us to go somewhere off campus to get our photo taken, and then the yearbook itself was like 50 bucks (in 1992 dollars), and weighed like 10 lbs. And outside of freshmen, only like 10-15% of people got their pictures taken at all outside of student organization stuff, so it’s not like you could actually see the entire class of people anyway. Seemed kind of silly to me, but some people really liked them- my SIL has one for all 4 years she was there, while I only have the first year one. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/18 "2019-02-04T15:17:56Z")
State University in Ohio. I did get a yearbook my senior year, but it disappeared on one of my moves during my adult years and never considered replacing it. Still have my High School Yearbook, however. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/19 "2019-02-04T15:18:05Z")
Graduated from a small liberal arts college in 1974 and we did have a yearbook. It actually won a design award a couple of years earlier. In addition to the individual photos, there were various other photos of people on campus, some very nicely done. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918/20 "2019-02-04T16:08:56Z")
Large state university. I was aware that they had a yearbook, but that part of university life was so far away from my experience that it might as well have been a different school. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-yearbook/828918.md?page=2)