Friday, January 04, 2013

 

Haiku Friday: What did you REALLY learn in college?

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This week, let's haiku about the most important things we learned in college. Most people I know learned... well, some different things than they expected. So speak freely!

I realize that some people didn't go to college, or haven't had the chance yet; feel free to sub in any school you have attended.

Here is mine:

Best thing I learned:
When not to say anything.
Still working on it.

Now you go! Just make it more or less 5 syllables/7 syllables/5 syllables, and don't forget that the winner gets a bio right here on Monday.

Comments:
Learn? What did I learn?
Ballroom dance and some German.
I still use them both.
 
"It is what you learn
once you know it all that counts."
Thank you, John Wooden
 
What I did not learn
Was how some people made it
Seem so, so easy.
 
I had a roommate
Whose friendliness was catchy
Came out of my shell
 
Best thing in college?
Friends made for all of my life.
Worst thing? Too much beer.
 
College sweetheart showed
me I could love, and be loved.
Phenomenal gift.

He wasn’t ‘the one’.
But when future husband came
in my life, I knew.

Lessons learned in that
romance helped this love last for
decades and counting.

 
We were supposed to
learn things? Does the price of a
case of Keystones count?
 
I learned who I was
all along and moved forward -
more confidently.
 
I'm with Anon 1
How the hell did they do it?
I am still stumbling.

I did learn to write
Smith Corona put to work
Hammering out ideas
 
Tough Gerda Lerner
Mid life reinvention is
What I think I learned.

 
Champagne, dresses, boys.
Dance, giggle, flirt. Goodbye to stress.
Only to be there.
 
Class I think of most:
Art History I, pass/fail
A path not taken?

Radio Station
Manager; motivating
Creative people

Social Chairman of
Fraternity; budgeting,
planning, logistics

Government Major
Ideas: Hobbes, Mill, Locke, Burke
the rest was boring

Big disappointment
History: no idea
wrestling, just lecture

 
If you wait till the
last minute, it only takes
a minute to do
 
Also learned how to
shotgun a beer, dance the shag
and mantle jump

The Shag is a type of dance and like any good dance, can be sensual if not sexual... but this is NOT a reference to a sex act.

Shag dancing was and is very popular in the southern states. It is generally done to "beach music."

Here endeth the lesson

 
Perspective shifted
Learned to care about the world
Outside my bubble
 
Wait...IPLawguy...mantle jump??
 
Yes, Mantle jumping!
Epsilon Charge Tradition
The Prof did it too!
 
Me and Pete Ferre...
Mantle Jumping mishap; ouch!
Next day, big shiner.
 
I throw darts better
when I have been drinking beer
That is what I learned

It is the small things
that stay with us years later
Thank you Miami
 
Left the cloister of
Grosse Pointe behind, eyes opened
A big diverse world
 
Need some useful skills
Philosophy ain't useful
Go to law school next
 
Earning my own pay
is really so much nicer
than living at home.
 
I don't remember
Toga and Tequila Night
But photos don't lie


 
College was great fun
Who needs hassles of real world?
Be a professor
 
Not a f*ckin' thing
I swear to God it's true, dude
Not a f*ckin' thing
 
You mean, aside from
my Social Security
number? Let me think...

What did I learn? How
to drive in Philly traffic.
No help in D.C.

Biology? Not
my thing. Poli Sci? Yes, please.
Captivating stuff.

Dr. Joe Brogan
One of the best profs ever.
Taught me how to think

Learned I'm not cut out
to be a doctor. Lawyer
works better for me.

I might be from South
Carolina. But I'm a
city boy at heart.

Philadelphia.
La Salle University.
Think of them fondly.
 
Argue? Not always.
"Opposing counsel is right."
Then, go for the kill.
 
Bus: Down's Syndrome lass
Grabs broke pearls;his bloody shirt!
All be poems.
 
How to make love in
A bottom bunk,ivy dorm,
Quietly,hotly.
 
How to march down the
Freeway for peace.Wet rag stashed
In bluejeans pockets.
 
All of a sudden I have the irresistible urge to do the shag.
 
Not sure what I learned
But I'm know I'll always pine
For free beer at Busch.
 
I learned to think. Oh,
and all roads around Hillsdale
lead to North Adams.

 
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In the late 60s
I met a boy in French class
Drugs ruined his mind
 
Statistics. You know
it's not good when your "grade" is
simply "Please See Me."
 
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