🎓 Latin is Hard 😓

You graduate and think you’re done with confusing terms.

Then someone asks:

“Are you an alumnus or an alumni?”

Cue the internal panic. 😱

💡 Alumnus = one male grad 💡 Alumna = one female grad 💡 Alumni = group of grads (all male or mixed) 💡 Alumnae = group of women grads

But honestly? Avoid all the drama and just say alum. 😎

At my college reunion, I learned a lot of history I’d never heard, or thought about before. I had a vague sense of the origins of the college but I hadn’t really ever thought them through. The fact is, the college was created to educate privileged young women. Formed in 1926, it was designed for a population of gentility. It was not designed to get women jobs. In thinking about this, and how…

💡PRO TIP: Please don’t use “alumni” when you’re referring to one person. People who know might judge you.

💡PRO TIP: Please don’t use “alumni” when you’re referring to one person. People who know might judge you.

Please don’t use “alumni” when you’re referring to one person. People who know might judge you.