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.
Learn? What did I learn?
ReplyDeleteBallroom dance and some German.
I still use them both.
"It is what you learn
ReplyDeleteonce you know it all that counts."
Thank you, John Wooden
What I did not learn
ReplyDeleteWas how some people made it
Seem so, so easy.
I had a roommate
ReplyDeleteWhose friendliness was catchy
Came out of my shell
Best thing in college?
ReplyDeleteFriends made for all of my life.
Worst thing? Too much beer.
College sweetheart showed
ReplyDeleteme 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
ReplyDeletelearn things? Does the price of a
case of Keystones count?
I learned who I was
ReplyDeleteall along and moved forward -
more confidently.
I'm with Anon 1
ReplyDeleteHow 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
ReplyDeleteMid life reinvention is
What I think I learned.
Champagne, dresses, boys.
ReplyDeleteDance, giggle, flirt. Goodbye to stress.
Only to be there.
Class I think of most:
ReplyDeleteArt 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
ReplyDeletelast minute, it only takes
a minute to do
Also learned how to
ReplyDeleteshotgun 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
ReplyDeleteLearned to care about the world
Outside my bubble
Wait...IPLawguy...mantle jump??
ReplyDeleteYes, Mantle jumping!
ReplyDeleteEpsilon Charge Tradition
The Prof did it too!
Me and Pete Ferre...
ReplyDeleteMantle Jumping mishap; ouch!
Next day, big shiner.
I throw darts better
ReplyDeletewhen 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
ReplyDeleteGrosse Pointe behind, eyes opened
A big diverse world
Need some useful skills
ReplyDeletePhilosophy ain't useful
Go to law school next
Earning my own pay
ReplyDeleteis really so much nicer
than living at home.
I don't remember
ReplyDeleteToga and Tequila Night
But photos don't lie
College was great fun
ReplyDeleteWho needs hassles of real world?
Be a professor
Not a f*ckin' thing
ReplyDeleteI swear to God it's true, dude
Not a f*ckin' thing
You mean, aside from
ReplyDeletemy 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.
ReplyDelete"Opposing counsel is right."
Then, go for the kill.
Bus: Down's Syndrome lass
ReplyDeleteGrabs broke pearls;his bloody shirt!
All be poems.
How to make love in
ReplyDeleteA bottom bunk,ivy dorm,
Quietly,hotly.
How to march down the
ReplyDeleteFreeway for peace.Wet rag stashed
In bluejeans pockets.
All of a sudden I have the irresistible urge to do the shag.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what I learned
ReplyDeleteBut I'm know I'll always pine
For free beer at Busch.
I learned to think. Oh,
ReplyDeleteand all roads around Hillsdale
lead to North Adams.
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ReplyDeleteIn the late 60s
ReplyDeleteI met a boy in French class
Drugs ruined his mind
Statistics. You know
ReplyDeleteit's not good when your "grade" is
simply "Please See Me."