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People who paid tuition once and now get asked for money forever.
means Graduates of a school, collectively — former students considered as a group tied to their alma mater.
from From Latin 'alumnus,' meaning a foster son, nursling, or pupil — rooted in 'alere,' to nourish or nurse. Alumni is the masculine plural (alumnae for women, alumnus/alumna singular), carrying the old idea that a school 'feeds' and raises its students the way a parent would — which makes the lifelong fundraising letters feel almost like family asking for an allowance back.
- singular technically
- alumnus or alumna, but nobody bothers
- email forwarding
- the one lifetime benefit that actually lasts
- donation ask
- starts arriving before diploma ink dries
- linkedin flex
- school name doing more work than the degree