You’re back home for winter break and ready to show off your new partying abilities. Time to reconnect with the old crew from high school and tear sh*t up. Maybe you’ve heard rumors about some of the crap that happened to your classmates while away at school, or maybe you just completely cut yourself off from that world. Either way, it’s time to find out who’s been up to what. Thanksgiving break was short-lived, but winter break gives you plenty of man hours to catch up. To prepare you for what’s in store, we put together this guide of cronies, phonies, and baloney riding ponies you’ll see out and about. Check it out after the jump.

Christmas break is one of the best times of the school year except for one nasty side effect: family dinners. Most times, you’re stuck at some distant relative’s house making small talk with your uncle while sipping spiked eggnog and the conversation morphs into an interrogation. The questions get more specific and invasive, and the second you excuse yourself to slip away to take a break–there’s another relative, ready to fire off the same questions you’re trying to dodge. If you don’t answer correctly, you’ll become the subject of family gossip until the next holiday party. Here’s how to BS your way through the most common questions.

You’re done with classes, you can sleep in till noon without repercussion and chances are you’re going to end up at the bar downtown, one of these nights – if you haven’t just camped out there already. That means running into pretty much every person you went to high school with who you haven’t talked to since graduation day.