What's this?

I have five days until I disappear into Brazil. That means I have a ridiculous amount of homework to finish, but I think I am going to try to get back updating this because really writing poetry is a great way to relieve stress. I might not be writing the best poetry, but that never was the point of this blog. So here is a poem about being in school for almost all my life and how I have been kind of wondering what a degree is really worth. I think learning is a great endeavour; however, I am not sure that the current college system is best. And I certainly am not sure that we should people getting degrees just because that is what you do after high school and getting degrees because that is the only way you can get a good job.

Learning

I've spent my entire life learning.
I think it is a good place to be.

I've spent more of my life in school
than any where I've wanted to be.

I don't know where I will go after
I escape but I know I want to be

something more then what I am in this place.
It is a place where it is hard to be

more than what they tell you can do. More than
a name on a sheet of paper that tells me:
I am a graduate.

Copyright 2007 William Curb