Midterms Poems - Poems about Midterms

University midterm periods bring early mornings charged with energy drinks and espresso shots. Evenings are spent trading quizlets in Bass Library or in late night cram sessions in the common room. After several days of stressful testing, midterms suddenly end. But we’re like those Indianapolis race cars that’ve just run 500 laps, we come off our...

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My room, the suite, seemed too small. I felt like I’d been in my room forever. I’d developed a scratchy sense of stuckness and a fresh, itchy awareness of dust particles floating in the stifling, still air that made me want to stop breathing in so much. But I didn’t, categorically, have the energy to get up and focusing seemed like a...

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life happens. It’s fall, it’s midterms It’s election time. New Haven’s giving a lot of fall. I’ve been starting to feel the chills, but things are turning cold and extra breezy, so it all maks sense. The good and bad can coexist closely, is our energy dropping? Nope. Whenever I think of voting, I go back to American Idol. My first voting experience. It was 2009 and...

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The sharpened mind - with care - takes aim - at university, we play ruthless games. Where pencils scratch, their graphite gray, and scholarly answers take the day. I've finished midterms! It was like one of those TV shows, ‘survivor’ or something. Enzyme kinetics, metabolic pathways, protein structures and functions be damned - no, be double damned. I’d been working problems raw...

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I've posted a new short story. Because the length of pieces we can post here is crazy limited. https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/grades_ruin_everything_9428...

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So many, too many students had COVID two weeks ago. My parents were supposed to come for a visit, and midterms were on the horizon - so I decided to go ahead and get covid - to get it over with. I’ve been around a dozen people who later that day tested positive, but somehow...

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It’s a beautiful day, like a hole in perpetual winter. We rode bikes around campus - everyone was out. When it’s cold I just go place to place but today reminded me that outdoors can be fun. Of course, it’s supposed to snow tomorrow night - just a few snow atoms, I think. Lisa was laying...

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It’s been a week - things have been happening - I’m going through it. I’ve become nostalgic for two weeks ago. I got screamed at, I lost my AirPods case, and I cracked my iPhone screen, so I’m several levels worse - I’m a sad human. I’m writing this at the Apple Store while a...

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All my #2 pencils are chewed and the erasers are gone. Half the pages of my books have been folded. Sections are highlighted and notes are scribbled in all over the place! *shaking head* The page margins are jammed with doodles, of flowers, cats, stars, hearts and names. *flipping pages to early in the year* September...

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The Aftermath of Midterms By Franklin Price 11/7/2018 The aftermath of midterms Is quickly taking shape The Democrats have won the house Yesterday they broke the tape Republicans have the Senate May have even gained a few The question to be answered now Is, what will this congress do? Now that there is some balance For the folks up on the hill Maybe they'll think of We the...

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