"The SLUgS Prom"!
To confirm our status as the greatest geek/nerd (whichever is coolest in your vocabulary) group that ever existed in the UCB department of Linguistics, the SLUgS have unanimously embraced the idea of throwing a "prom".
In order to replicate the past years of high-school glory and despair: There will be corsages; there will be cheesy decorations; there already is a climate of fake and exaggerated, giddy drama. As a bonus -alas, college is good for something- : There will also be very alcoholic beverages and no parental supervision!
The exact time of the event has not been determined, but it will probably be around the end of this semester, in December.
Why, I asked myself, is the idea of having a prom so appealing to college seniors? Shouldn't we be over this by now? -I came up with three major reasons:
1- My personal answer is that I never had a prom, since I grew up and went to highschool in Venezuela. In short, I have never experienced what a prom is really like... And I'm curious.
In addition, I'm quite stressed-out right now and could use a little nonsense.
2- However that is only half the story: A prom serves to revert back to days when we had less responsibilities, and hadn't yet discovered what was behind the miracle of having clean, neatly folded laundry. It has the purpose of reminding us where we came from, how stressed out we were about our life back then, and how insignificant that all seems now that we have changed so much.
It is one of our last chances to express our fear of growing up, with the twist of already being sort of grown up, while it can still be considered cute and not totally pathetic.
3- Of course, there is always the factor of fashion: It is difficult for girls now a days to properly and fashionably wear a pretty dress; modern society has stripped girls of girlyness and left us contemporary gals with very few excuses to play dress-up. And by golly, I'm taking whatever I can get!
Ridiculous prom makeup: Here I come!!!!
2 comments:
Oh Margaret, how elated you will be when you understand what this concept of prom is. And I think I've come onto something with this prom-in-college idea: as you state, there are so few chances for a girl to get dressed up nowadays that it makes girls depressed...and want to get married. I have witnessed this so many times. Why do you think every girl in the dorms subscribes to theknot.com? So many of those girls don't really want to be married, they want a big fancy party, with beautiful dresses and tuxedos and one magical night of intense drama. Really, by having more huge spectacular, glamourous events, I am saving hundreds and thousands of women from mistakenly walking down the aisle to a future they weren't ready for. This is my humble contribution to society.
Okay, that was partly bullshit, but it will be fabulous fun, full of movement and irony =) and 80s music. I will never be over prom. I think societal groups should embrace the concept, and instate a biannual prom. Just because poufy dresses are fun.
-Jacqueline
I love you J.
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