Nasa Reunion

Active from May to June 2024. The "Nasa Reunion" group — not the space agency, just our Dubai friend group reuniting and somehow naming the chat after NASA.

What It Was

A reunion group chat for a crew from school that needed to reconnect. May-June 2024 was exam season, so naturally half the chat was people telling each other to go study while nobody was actually studying.

The Legendary Messages

Two messages define this entire group chat. First: "Go study" — sent by everyone to everyone, constantly, with zero self-awareness because the person sending it was also on their phone instead of studying. Second: "Gang my average is 99% im chilling" — the flex that made everyone else feel terrible about their revision progress. Iconic.

The Study Stress Era

May and June are the most intense exam months, so this chat was basically a support group for academic anxiety. Everyone was stressed, everyone was procrastinating, and the group chat was the procrastination tool of choice. We'd talk about studying more than we actually studied.

The Reunion Part

The "reunion" aspect was real — these were people who hadn't been in a group chat together for a while, and getting everyone back in one place (virtually) brought back old energy. It was nostalgic and stressful at the same time, which is basically the teenage experience in a nutshell.