The other day I received a Facebook invite to a friend's law school graduation party. It dawned on me, as I sat in a coffee shop on my laptop, looking up 80's sit-coms on Wikipedia, that I had turned out very different than my friend who is the same age as I, is married, and is graduating law school.

To pinpoint where we may have strayed I Wikipediaed our respective high schools, trying to gain some perspective.

Who graduated from his high school, Benet Academy?

- Joan Biskupic, a USA Today Supreme Court correspondent, PBS Washington Week guest, and author: Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice.

- Patrick Collins, a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois: lead prosecutor in Operation Safe Road licenses-for-bribes investigation, which led to the conviction of 75 people including Illinois Governor George Ryan.

- Robert Conrad, a Clemson hall of fame basketball star and Rhodes Scholar candidate who lead the United States Department of Justice's Campaign Finance Task Force (2000-01), which examined, under oath, the President and Vice President of the United States.

- Mark Kirasich, a Deputy Director of NASA's Project Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the new lunar vehicle for human spaceflight.

- Mark Obmascik, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from the Denver Post: lead writer in the paper's coverage of the Columbine High School massacre, which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.

- Peter Petre, Sr., author of : Executive Editor at Large of Fortune magazine; co-author of Norman Schwarzkop's It Doesn't Take a Hero; commissioned to write Alan Greenspan's memoirs.

And who graduated from my high school, Wheaton North?

- Gail O'Grady, the actress who was on NYPD Blue and Boston Legal.

Suddenly it's all making sense.