School Society

[GSLeloo]

I posted this somewhere else but I'm curious to see what everyone else says. The poll above deals with prom, did you go?

My other question is more personal and concerns friends. When you got out of high school did you actually still hang out with your old friends? Did you stay close? Do you still consider them friends?

[Artha]

Did you stay close? Do you still consider them friends?

I think, with the invention of the internet, these two will become more popular. It used to be you had to pay long distance bills or drive for a long time if you wanted to keep in touch and moved anywhere. Now, however, you just have to add their screen names to your buddy list.

[Snapp]

I went to prom with a friend and had a ball. As far as talking to high school friends after high school.. not a single one, but I do know people who stayed close to their high school buddies. Are you not going to prom Leloo?

[GSLeloo]

i already decided to not go to prom. Financially it is too much and I honestly don't believe I would have a good time. Most of my friends aren't going and I hate the rest of my grade. I am going down prom weekend but I think I'd rather skip prom.

[peam]

I didn't go to either.

I went to afterparties and had fun though.

[Meos]

I woulda gone to prom is I had a girlfriend at the time but I didn't so... oh well, I don't think I missed out on anything. I went to a few of the turnabout dances were girls ask the guys and I had a terrible time for 2 out of the 3. The only reason the 3rd was good was well... take a guess.

As for friends. Never lose touch with the people you really liked in high school. I live with 3 of my best friends from high school at college. Other friends we have come and visit all the time to party and spend a few days. I really hope I don't lose touch with any of them.

[Latrinsorm]

I still talk to a few of my friends. Apparently most were just acquaintances of opportunity.

[Sweets]

I went. My date sucked. I spent the whole night trying to get him to NOT commit suicide. I found out later it was a trick so I wouldn't drink and just spend time with him. Guy was nuts. Stalked me for 2 years after that.

I don't have fond memories of prom.

Edited to add:

My bestfriends in high school are still my bestfriends now. I have stayed in touch with all of them. Only one from our "girl gang" is still here in town with me. My gals are the best.

[Edited on 4-15-2004 by Sweets]

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[Edited on 4-16-2004 by Sweets]

[Edaarin]

Prom went like this for me. $120 for my date and I (split) as part of a group for a 20 person Lincoln Navigator limo, paid for dinner, paid for prom tix, and split after party. Had a blast. You only go to high school once, so I think that you should just not worry about the money this one time and go.

As far as losing touch with friends in high school...out of my class of 410 or so students, 130 of them are at the same college I'm at. I'm close with maybe 5 or 6 of them, meaning we still get together on a semi regular basis. But I do think college is a chance for new beginnings, fresh starts, and new friends. My best friends from high school will always be my friends, but it's inevitable except in a few very rare cases that you're going to drift apart.

[DianaBanana]

I have kept about 3 really close friends from highschool. Most of my other friends are from college. Highschool really sucked and I dont miss it or the majority of the people from it, very much.

[MPSorc]

Well at my school (very small) the JR and SR prom are held together each year, i went to my JR prom and had a blast, but sadly i broke up with my girlfriend less than a week before my SR prom, so i didn't go, instead i went to the area we were going to throw our party and partied early, and since the SR prom sucked everyone left rather early and i wasn't alone long. I have since not kept in touch with most of my class (22 people) most have since long disapeared from our small country town, the ones that stayed are strait bums and dope fiends. none have died yet which amazes me, but yet i am still glad they haven't. My best friends in school i have lost contact with them and every chance i get to go home i have just missed them.

[Miss X]

We don't have proms and stuff here, dunno why, I guess the idea just never took off. At the end of my A Levels (18) we all went to a great club, got totally off our heads and had tons of fun. :)

I still keep in contact with most of my friends from school. My three closest friends went to the same university as me, did the same degree so we were still together. 90% of the people I consider close friends are from high school, they were the best people then and they still are. :)

[imported_Kranar]

I didn't want to be the only guy at prom without a date so I didn't go. I don't really regret it that much.

I did go to the after party though, which was pretty fun.

I also keep in touch with my friends from high school over MSN. I sure do miss em though.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Originally posted by GSLeloo
I am going down prom weekend

Who are you going down on? Hmmmm?

Seriously though, I went to prom, was ok. I also did the after prom no drink thing in the gym, that was a freaking blast... all kinds of prizes and games and stuff.

Then the next night we all went out drinking :)

As far as friends from HS, I still talk to one (thats it, one), on a "once a year" basis, if that. Keep in mind I moved every 3 or 4 years my entire life, so wasn't like I had "roots". My close friends are the ones I made in college, and while scattered throughout the country and world, I talk to 3 of them every week for sure.

[Myshel]

I went to prom with a guy who looked better than I did. He was in the closet then, I knew he was gay, but I don't think he knew it at the time. I was chubby in HS so I felt like a beached whale in this monsterous dress, and was uncomfortable the whole night.
He was a great dancer and we did have fun. I couldn't wait to get out of there, get into my jeans and do the parties.
I still have friends that I went to HS with, we aren't terribly close, because we are so busy, but we lived together during college and still get together a couple of times a year. The cool thing about old friends is that in two min. you pick up where you left off, its instant intimacy with people who know you the best.

[Valthissa]

well,

I didn't do the prom thing.

29 years after graduating I still see my two best friends from HS on a regular basis (they usually come to our Friday night party).

25 years after college I still see my two best friends from William & Mary whenever they come to town.

it takes work on everyone's part to have lifelong friends, but I think strong personal relationships with family and friends are number one on my list of what makes life worth living.

C/Valth

[Weedmage Princess]

I didn't go to my prom cause none of my close friends were going. In highschool, my friends and I were in that teenage rebel mode...yanno...whatever most people do, do the opposite cause I thought it was cool. My mother was on my ass ever since Christmas of my senior year to go and everyday she would tell me that I'd regret it if I didn't. My boyfriend at the time also was on my case about going. I told them that they were cornballs..heh.

Well now...I don't regret it every day, but I do wish I had gone. At the time I thought it was nothing but getting dressed up to go to some school sponsored dance, then going back home and changing to go clubbing...but now I think it's more than that. Sort of in the way Holidays aren't really just "another day." Well atleast to some people.

[Fengus]

I left the area as quickly as I could, so only see people from HS when I'm in town visiting relatives and then rarely.

I didn't go to my prom, I didn't go to my graduation, I only rarely when to school my senior year and never on time. IIRC they were charging like $15 to use the cap and gown for graduation, I told em to suck it.

Don't get me wrong I had fun in HS and all that, but I still saw it as a colossal waste of time, 13 years worth actually.

[TheEschaton]

I didn't go to prom, but that's because I went to an all guy's school, and we had to bring in outside dates. I was too busy in high school to bother chasing skirts.


I had quite a few friends in high school, but I think a lot of them were, "Can you give me a ride home?" and "can you smoke me out?" kind of friends. Some of them I'm still semi-close to. The friends from high school who I'm still close to are the friends I had in grammar school who went to the same high school.

My three best friends, one I've known since the age of 5, one from the age of 7, one from the age of 9. Even the one I've known from 9, I've known him 13 years, more than half my life. The one I've known from the age of 7 I've got a pact with - we'll be each other's best men at our respective weddings. The guy I've known since 5 is getting married in October, and I was supposed to be his best man, but now I'll be in Namibia.

-TheE-

[Wezas]

I went to 3 proms at my school (two with a girl who was just a friend, the third with my girlfriend at the time) and one prom with another girl (who was just a friend that I wanted to bang) at her school. The three I went to with friends were decent and the one I went to with my girlfriend was nice. Never got to bang that friend, oh well.

As for friends from HS, as soon as I graduated, I didn't see any of them until about 2 years ago when I stumbled on one of my good friends, Teresa, working at a Funcoland locally. She switched stores and I haven't spoken to her since.