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University Poems - Poems about University

Premium Member Notes on jailbreak
Ok, there’s no jailbreak. Make room for my innocent alter ego, because there’s nothing to rebel against. There are zero classes in my nascent, year-long, Harvard master’s degree. They call it ‘self directed study’ and like rockets have stages, I’ll have ‘self paced modules.’ Am I suddenly at Oxford University? They’re quite famous for that (no formal classes). Or am I suddenly grown up and...

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Categories: university, encouraging, homework, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the sorting hat
Like Harry Potter, the sorting hat (my mom) has placed me in a bloody, crimson colored school. It’s disorienting, as I go about, the logos are wack. Poor little rich girl no beachside lovers this interminable, scorching summer. I’m swept up by scholastic spirit. Can you hear it? Cause it’s deafening me, on this cool, dry, Boston orientation day. As we finished our morning...

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Categories: university, daughter, education, humor, morning,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Considering my What Ifs
I was going to become a teacher I thought it was my calling I was young and thought it best to go to university straight out of high school before I'd go to teachers' college Well... things did not go as planned for better or for worse, who knows I got sidetracked ended up taking a job education got shelved for longer than...

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Categories: university, career, future, graduation, high
Form: Free verse
Premium Member congraduations
Our caps flew like confetti. Thank god I customized mine. I'll keep it as a memento of all-nighters, friendships formed in the academic trenches, dismissive professors and group-project-tortures. This isn’t another ‘drunk girl’ holiday, despite obvious similarities. Our parents, sisters, brothers, and grandmothers are here. We came in doe-eyed, holding overpriced planners, and enough provisions for two year Mars missions. We hoped to discover...

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Categories: university, cinderella, dream, feelings, good
Form: Free verse
New Era University
Brick and mortar dreams, a striving for knowledge, a haven of learning, in the city's sprawling reach. Not just a campus, but a tapestry of voices, of lectures and whispers, of late-night studies, a crucible of minds taking shape. The bell's resonant chime, a marker of time, a rhythm of classes, a cadence of thought, a call to gather, to learn. Ancient trees, wise and tall, witness to generations, of scholars...

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Categories: university, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member antonyms
I’m finally going to get on that platform on the 18th of next month, for a first-time, one-time performance. The once, seemingly impossible will come fully true, which seems like a lot narratively. It’ll be like leaving home—but we’re crashing out. Moving on to other plot points, big topics and intense missions. We’re all caustically optimistic. Although there’s a cellular-level pull to...

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Categories: university, appreciation, courage, future, graduation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member rituals
I have rituals for the first day of class like a superstitious athlete they get me into a good frame of mind where I feel like a juggernaut who has total agency and I don’t need to seek validation It’s a moment in time I have all my books—stacked on my desk they look serious—very nuts and bolts I’ve beaten the syllabuses to...

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Categories: university, humor, introspection, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member querulous
( A university-life vignette) It’s Saturday morning. Lisa, Leong and I were in the common area, lazing about. “This is what happened to us (Lisa and I) last night.” I said, beginning to explain last night's trauma to Leong. “We were at the event and it was dead and empty—there was just another couple there. It...

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Categories: university, abuse, anxiety, funeral, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member labs
(a university-life vignette) It’s Saturday morning at about 9am. I’m in the chemistry lab, a sterile looking room with 12 workstations that are like multi level kitchen islands with sinks and various lab gear. It’s the most fluorescently lit environment on earth and everything looks to be either white, stainless steel or glass. I’m one of the...

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Categories: university, angst, career, environment, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member killing it
There’s a lot of heat when all eight of us suitemates are together. I might have mentioned it somewhere. We’re like surround sound, or eight car alarms going off together, it’s jabberwocky by an established team. It can get frantic and frightening for the uninitiated or inhibited. Some of us are pretty boy-crazy and there’s a mix-in of twinkling girl-crazy too. We’re basey, bugzee, spaceheads...

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Categories: university, girlfriend, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member pre-crastinate
There’s an old joke, “Procrastinate now, because the sooner you fall behind, the longer you’ll have to catch up.” Ha ha. While a lot of students around here, even the good ones, are procrastinators, I’m a diagnosed pre-crastinator. I obsess over syllabuses and start things immediately. I've got rough drafts of things due three months from now. I’m a planner....

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Categories: university, humor, school, strength, stress,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member circles and catcalls
I’m standing in the common room, turning in circles. I’ve so many things to do, all at once, I can’t figure out which way to jump. A time management problem, I suppose, maybe I should have taken that 1 credit ‘project management’ class I sloughed off. We live and we learn. Leong was sitting, leg crossed on...

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Categories: university, class, friend, friendship, humor,
Form: Free verse
A boy named Dustin
In a quiet town where shadows blend, A boy named Dustin learned to mend, Born to a mother, young and alone, With dreams in her heart, but a heavy stone. No father’s hand to guide his way, But a grandfather’s love would light the day, With wisdom deep as...

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Categories: university, appreciation, boy, brother, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member for someone
It’s hard to meet someone serious at college. Everyone’s busy, self-centeredly grinding away at their dreams. So much so that people tell you to not even try (especially as a freshman). I was mostly at ease with myself—as a freshman. I had an excellent skincare routine—it was downright luxuriant, and it kept me going, through that romantically lonely year. But we...

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Categories: university, anniversary, boyfriend, celebration, humor,
Form: Free verse
Happy Returns
I turn off U.S. 30 at an exit for Ames and see Jack Trice Stadium expanded. Memories stir of football games the jubilation and sorrow found on the field more than forty years ago where campus heroes were made. Three blocks away from campus The Towers dormitories still reach into the sky, my fraternity in their shadows is now a bed and breakfast. Brothers there always said the biggest lessons are learned...

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Categories: university, appreciation, remember,
Form: Free verse

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