You could always friend a bunch of bad people and join their games midsession/start a party to (hopefully) play other bad people.
I want to ask how everyone views prestiging. When the game first released everyone was on a race to the top but it's cooled down a bit and people give more thought to it. Some people want to complete a certain challenge for a callsign before doing so, getting mastery of a gun (another challenge), or just plain realize they'll suck when there's 68 levels between them and 1887s. Of course, others just dive in.
I have a few goals before my first prestige:
50(?) Emergency Air Drops (Only at 16, wtf)
1000 air drops (Have 250, I want that damn gold bar)
P90 Mastery (Have all attachments + Red Tiger, need Fall camo)
ACR Mastery (Just unlocked, in the same match I got my final P90 FMJ kill XP)
30(?) Stuck Semtax' (Have 8, Stuck On You callsign is pimp)
Optional goals are all "call in XX killstreak," obtained purely through packages. Reason I consider this an optional goal as opposed to standard unlocks is because I'll hold off the prestige if I'm close to completing one (I'm particularly fond of the motion EMP emblem).