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How many people from uni are you still friends with ? And how old are you?

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Kittencuddler · 29/10/2025 09:12

only 4 here at late 40s but string friendships that have lasted over 2 decades so feel secure and see often

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AnotherExpatKiwi · 29/10/2025 19:09

undergrad - 4, would have been 5 but one died. These are all in NZ, so don’t see them often but always feels like we’ve not been apart when meeting. One I also went to school with.

postgrad - 2 I still see regularly, 3 occasional contact via FB. In the UK and based reasonably closely.

i’m 59.

Octopus45 · 29/10/2025 19:13

Property in touch with 3 friends from uni. There’s another 4 who are Facebook friends. I’m 50

VeryQuaintIrene · 29/10/2025 19:13

5 really close ones plus a kind of penumbra of a few others who are close to my group. Also about 7 or so from my school. I live in the US, so only see them a couple of times a year, but we are very close and it's easy to pick up where we left off from before. Looking forward to retirement and spending more time in the UK and seeing them more often,

21ZIGGY · 29/10/2025 19:14
  1. The 6 of us were tight from first year. We are all 42/43. We are in touch pretty much every day on our whatsapp group and i love us ❣️
CleanSkin · 29/10/2025 19:48

One of them; nearly 60. Life stopped us from contact in our 30s & 40s.

mrspineapple123 · 29/10/2025 19:56

None from uni and none in my general life. I’m 38

LaurieFairyCake · 29/10/2025 20:18

50’s. Three people.

LaurieFairyCake · 29/10/2025 20:18

Secondary school, 3 people too.

Itwouldbesonice · 29/10/2025 20:20

None any more. We kept in touch until our late 30s but then lost touch. We were all in different parts of the country. I am 60. In those days we kept in touch via letters and Christmas cards. I did end up teaching in the same school as one university friend but I moved away after that.

ZenNudist · 29/10/2025 20:23

47
Loads of them. 10 close (Inc DH) see wider circle irregularly through the 10 closer friends.

RaininSummer · 29/10/2025 20:38

One. I left uni 37 years ago. It was only one when I left too though.

startape · 29/10/2025 20:51

About 5 and I am late 40's. I only really see one regularly. I have zero friends from my school days. I went to university in a different part of the country to where I am from and live, I lived overseas for quite a few years in various places so only really stayed in touch with a few people. I don't use social media like facebook and I think these days that is how people of my generation stay in touch.

Giddykiddy · 29/10/2025 20:56

I'm 60 and still best friends with
my bestie from uni- we always say it was like love at first sight.
No contact with anyone else I met at uni though still see a few people I went to school and uni with occasionally

MujeresLibres · 29/10/2025 21:32

I'm 50. 10 from undergraduate, but I don't really think of them as friends anymore because we're only in very sporadic contact via WhatsApp. None of them live within 100 miles of me though, nor are they in remotely the same line of work, so we all turned out quite different. 2 friends from postgraduate, and we meet up when we can. 1 is in my city, the other in New Zealand (so don't see her much). I am in touch with 2 friends from primary, my old secondary gang, and various people from work.

MiddlingMarch · 29/10/2025 21:42

My industry is fairly small, I come across folk I was at uni with all the time and currently work with two folk from uni. I am good friends still with two, and friendly with the others when I come across them.

menopausalfart · 29/10/2025 21:44

None of them. Attended Uni in the mid-90s.

Emmz1510 · 29/10/2025 21:51

None and 46

CoodleMoodle · 29/10/2025 21:58

0, and I'm 36.

I only made friends in my third year. The first year was spent with the same people in every seminar (bigger groups in the lectures obviously but less chance to make friends there), and all they were interested in was going out to clubs every single night. That's fine but I just wasn't, so I didn't fit in. Can't remember much of the second year, but it was mostly the same people again.

By the third year the classes were more mixed and I made friends with a few people. They were mostly international students from various countries, so when the course ended they all went home. The two or three from the UK just disappeared after we graduated.

Not friends with anyone from school, either. I met my DH and my best friend at sixth form, though!

OllyBJolly · 29/10/2025 22:01

63 and about 25. One of our contemporaries died tragically quite young and we vowed at his funeral that we would keep in touch. We meet regularly - at least twice a year - with several travelling from overseas.

Quite separately (as I was one of the very few of my school to go to uni) I still have a friendship group from school and we catch up a few times a year.

In both groups there will be fall outs from time to time - usually over politics- but we usually get back together quickly.

TenGreatFatSquirrels · 29/10/2025 22:08

Three.

Two I see maybe once or twice year at birthdays/ when they come down to London.

One is sat on my couch because he lives in my house and is apparently my spouse now. I’m 30.

BeaTwix · 29/10/2025 22:09

Loads. They still form the bulk of my social circle. I'm late 40s.

We are scattered all over the world now though but there are quite a few who live locally that I see regularly. And increasingly I see/ communicate with their kids independently as I'm a bit of a surrogate aunt to several families.

The nature of my vocational course is that people keep popping up for ever more.

I took part in an accidental reunion of my third year project group (4 out of 6 of us were there) in my workplace shop a few years ago. There are others from my year kicking about in my workplace too - one uses the same bike shed as me, one of the others runs with the running club so if I'm late leaving on a Monday we have a chat.

This might not be quite so comment worthy if I didn't work 400 miles and a different country away from where I studied!

MaryGreenhill · 29/10/2025 22:15

1 but l am 64 and old lol

Clearinguptheclutter · 29/10/2025 22:17

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there were six of us and five of us still see each other occasionally, my bestie I text all the time. Two of the six married each other a few years after uni then divorced a few years after that and the guy moved to Australia and never spoke to us again.

ChaliceinWonderland · 29/10/2025 22:18

I'm 55,
1 very closs too, and 3 others we are friends but rarely meet.... I was at uni jn 1990!

Shangrilalala · 29/10/2025 22:22

None. I was ostracised for reporting what would now be viewed as a ‘Me Too’ issue. Gutted - I loved my uni life and had great friends. I’m glad DD lives in different times,