Pram

Prom, maybe the most stressful part of high school, or a close first to say the least.  It's a ripple effect is what it is.  Once that first guy asks that first girl, it seems every week someone seems to asking someone else.  So your left to wonder, what if, what if?  For many guys, it's really who just the quickest to act.  Not every guy has 10 lady friends he is close enough with that he is really able to ask, so you really do have to be quick on your feet.  But at the same time, however, you also have to focus on school and make sure that your mid-term marks are good enough that can get your into your choice of school if you haven't already been accepted like many others including myself.  Really it's just strategy or at least that's how I like to look at it.  See grade 12 is broken up into 4 different parts.  First half of semester 1 is getting back into things and realizing that hey, I'm in grade 12 now, I can now act like those grade 12's did when I was back in grade 9.  The second half of semester 1 is all about making sure you finish all those assignments you've been procrastinating to finish because of the close approaching winter break.  Semester 2, is this real life?  It feels like yesterday when I walked through the halls on my first day, and now I'm here - 5 short months away from graduating.  This is where you have to batten down the hatches and live under a rock for half of which because you have to ensure you have good enough mid-terms marks.  Let's face it, after mid-terms we have pretty much graduated.  Your marks have been sent to school and now all you have to do is wait, and make sure you maintain a certain average if you want to make sure you can stay in your program or maintain a high average so you can get that extra dough from the university when they do accept you.  And then there's the final stretch.  Now that you are finished with school you can focus on prom.  The most stressful part of high school because you want to ask that girl you have been talking to since the first day of high school in Chemistry class.  And you better move quick, because I'm sure you're not the only one thinking of the same strategy.  So what's next?  Well you have until the end of June really to ask a girl, but you have only so much time to ask the girl you want to ask.  So get off that couch and do something with your life as the guy from that Everest College commercials tells you.  In my case, I have a standard to live up to.  Last year I helped out my cousin ask his prom date in a way like no other.  My older brother and two cousins choreographed a , lip synced a song from the Jonas Brothers, and performed it in a jam packed St. Mary foyer.  It was truly one for the books.  So for me, I know none of my friends will do anything even close to that, so I'm in alone.  Only time will tell I suppose what will happen.  The only thing I can do is think and be creative how to ask that girl I first saw in Chemistry class.