I have to agree that prom is a retarded pile of stale horseshìt.
At our school, however, we have the prom (grad), and then a (chem-free) aftergrad. There's gonna be breathcheck, so I can't get drunk. Besides, the hellhole where I live has a minimum drinking age of 19, instead of 18 like everywhere else, so there is no way I ll get drunk/high before I go.
Also, isn't getting laid at prom an old lame cliche? What's up with that, anyways? I thought it died with birth of american pie series...
I see people (mainly chicks) preparing for prom (grad) as far as 6 months prior to the actual event! What's up with that? Don't know about Americans/Canadians and their traditions and values, but where I come from, there is no such thing as Prom. So I don't see it as anything special. Life will go on from that point on, and I am glad it will. It will only get better. At least in Uni no one judges you by what you wear.
Personally, I happened not to fit in during the first two years of high school (living in a poor country before coming to a good place like Canada tends to make you hostile), and now, even though I am improving, my rep is irrepairable. But I will go. It might be the best night of my life. It might be the lamest. Who knows?
Lol, I remember going to the Winter formal banquet. It was like walking into another world, the world of the jocks, and the preps, and where everyone knew each other but me. I wasn't desperate to meet everyone, though I tried, but it was as if they were inclined on NOT giving me a chance. As I said, it was another caste, the one to which I did not belong.
That kind of an experience tends to bring you down, but I would have regretted not going (not that it was fun. The non-formal dance with a DJ after was good). You know, going and suffering through it is way better than sitting at home on a prom night. Trust me.
EDIT: Mike, how did you do it? What did you do to meet people? To earn money? What kind of a job did you have? You must have been motivates as fvck!
GJ m8!