By Jason Dagenhart
Round Table reporter

So how did you spend this year’s Prom? Did you spend it having fun with your friends while shaking what your momma gave you? Or did you spend a romantic candlelit dinner before the prom with your significant other and then go dance the night away? Or maybe you bee-bopped to the music and spent the night in jail afterwards…

 However you spent your Prom night it should have been one to remember. Prom is something special that only happens once a year. It’s like Christmas except without the presents, snow, and Santa Claus. In fact, the only way it’s like Christmas is that it happens once a year so I guess it’s nothing like Christmas. Moving on!

 Prom is technically called a couple’s dance. It isn’t like Homecoming or Winter Formal (if we ever have another one) where you can go by yourself and not feel lonely and pathetic. Compared to Prom, those dances are informal and you can go alone. Prom on the other hand is a dance where it is considered impolite to go alone. Prom is there to have fun with your date. I’m not saying you can’t have fun with your friends but the main focus for Prom is to enjoy the nigh with your special someone.

 Only then will Prom be a Walk in Wonderland.

 Oh wait, it already was. The theme for Prom this year was a “Walk in Wonderland”. This theme just didn’t seem very “Prom-y” to me. No one went to Prom to “walk in wonderland.” They went to “dance like idiots.” Maybe that’s what the theme should have been. Instead of having a giant butterfly our front of Hager Hall there could have been a giant statue thrusting his hips in the direction of the statue in front of it. That would have been a little more appropriate.

 I am not writing this blog to bash Prom though. I did have the time of my life with my girlfriend, and I acquired the coolest souvenir out of it too. Out of all the randomly colorful decorations that illuminated the Hall, there was one that lit up like a shining flower; literally. They had these battery-operated flowers with installed LED lights, and when you pressed the button on the side they exploded into a myriad of colors. I promptly took it home with me when I left.

All in all, Prom was a very nice experience. This is my senior year and I am so glad that I had a good time at one of the supposedly most important dances of high school.