Just for fun -- Haiku!

rt needs help! · 02-07-2009, 05:34 PM

Haiku in Japanese has three lines written one right after another, with 17 syllables -- the first line contains five syllables, the second has seven, and the last has five. In English the ideas can be expressed with a short line, a long line, and another short line.

Write a Haiku that expresses your thoughts on the college application process, the SAT, kids leaving home for college or just raising teenagers.

rt needs help! · 02-07-2009, 05:39 PM

The date looms closer
Have we done everything right?
College time is here.

rt needs help! · 02-07-2009, 05:41 PM

Who is this stranger
Always in his room door closed
Used to be so cute.

rt needs help! · 02-07-2009, 05:44 PM

S.A.T prep class
Spent thousands for him to take
Was it waste of time?

rt needs help! · 02-07-2009, 05:48 PM

College counselor
Do you even know my kid?
Please return my call.

rt needs help! · 02-07-2009, 05:51 PM

The decisions loom
Will he get in to first choice
Maybe a gap year???

rt needs help! · 02-07-2009, 05:53 PM

What -- her kid got in?
But mine is so much smarter!
The whole thing is fixed!

mathmom · 02-07-2009, 06:16 PM

2007 in a nutshell (or two nutshells)

Deferred in the fall
Will he get in anywhere?
Good news in April.

April brings choices.
Harvard? Carnegie Mellon?
CMU of course.

rt needs help! · 02-07-2009, 06:18 PM

Harvard, Yale or Penn?
We are praying for State U
Woe the B student.

It will be okay
He's a bright, kind, and great kid
Mom needs a xanax.

IBclass06 · 02-07-2009, 06:27 PM

rt, you have a knack for this!

As he bubbles in
His stomach growls hungrily
SATs are long.

App not yet processed?
Recommendations are lost.
Must send them again.

Got in but can't pay
Yay for merit scholarships
From choice number 2.