We are seniors. We have just spent the last four years working our butts off to get our GPAs and class rank good enough to get into our dream schools. Prom is the one night that we deserve to have fun and celebrate the ending to our year. Juniors will get their opportunity…next year.

This is something we look forward to from the start of senior year until the day of prom. We start buying Sherri Hill dresses in February, and that’s after our Pinterest boards are filled with nothing but prom dresses, hair and makeup that we want for that one night. We plan for this day. It is something special for just seniors. No offense, but we already have to share a lot of fun things with underclassman. Sitting in the front row of the stands at football games and going to prom are something that seniors only should get to experience.

For most of us prom is the last thing we get to do with all of our closest friends before we embark on the next journey of our lives: college. And yes we still have summer, but summer always includes working more and going on family vacations. Sometimes there isn’t time to spend with everyone. That’s the great thing about prom; it offers the opportunity of one night you get to spend with all of your friends. Seniors, unlike juniors, only have a few short months before majority of our friends leave to go off to college and we have to start making adult decisions.

Not to mention that having a junior and senior prom makes the senior prom lose its value. Take homecoming for example. I went to homecoming freshman, sophomore and junior year. I decided not to go my senior year because I honestly didn’t feel like it. I had been to homecoming before. I experienced the mums and football games. In all honesty it is just repetitive. I also knew that I would get to experience prom this year, so I wanted to save more money to buy an even more beautiful dress. But giving the juniors a prom as well, not only becomes less important to juniors their senior year, but makes it less important to seniors as well.

I do understand why juniors would like to have their own prom because getting dressed up in gorgeous gowns and a fitted tuxes is always enjoyable. And of course the after prom where you ride mechanical bulls and win prizes is something everyone can have fun experiencing. But this is one night where we aren’t worried about what the future holds. About leaving our family and friends behind. About being in a new town with new people without anyone to guide us through it. We deserve to have one night to forget about all the stress we are about to face and just enjoy ourselves with our closest friends by our side.