Do you get surprised by how much things just change after high school?

Currently I am a student who is about to start his second year of college.



Today at the theater I met an Iranian kid who was in my high school class. He graduated a B student, was always picked on for being nerdy and a bit fat, was hairy and had bushy eyebrows, never even got a girlfriend. Met him today and wow, he changed completely, he grew about 3 inches (went from 5';8 to 5';11), his eyebrows were not so bushy, he lost a lot of weight and got fit, still had a bit of hairy arms and he had a girlfriend (told me she was Venezuelan).



The guy who graduate valedictorian at my high school ended up flunking out of MIT and is now depressed. The person who won ';most attractive'; has put on 20 lbs already and she is always frustrated (as seen on her facebook status).



Anyways, did any of you in here see something similar happen? (I am more mature, a lot more mature then I was in high school)Do you get surprised by how much things just change after high school?
Probably what surprises most people is to learn that while you can be a big fish in the pond in high school, it is quite different in University. There, it takes quite a bit of moxie to be known. You are not one of hundreds, but one of tens of thousands. The saddest thing was to learn that some who had gone into the army never came back. As for girls, we mature earlier, so I just expect that we are pretty much the same. Everyone has ups and downs in life. So someone you meet from the past randomly, might have followed an opportunity. It didn't pan out; but then, they just try something else. So, most likely, when you see that person again, they will be on the up part of the cycle. Hopefully, there aren't too many who take the low road and stay there.