College Life

Classes so long, classrooms so cold,
Lectures so boring, Profs--very old.
Picking a major, or possibly two.
Being told useless info you already knew.

Cars that won't start, chairs that will squeak.
Students with questions and answers so weak.
Learning the names of the Tectonic Plates;
Finding out what lives in your uncooked steaks.

Making up names for the blanks on you tests.
Looking for space on the floor to find rest.
Begging for money to pay for your books.
Using the arms of you chairs as clothes hooks.

Learning why you need to care about quarks.
Eating fast food that requires no fork.
Grabbing up anything that says it's free,
Being told why you'd love ROTC.

Reading of atoms, and protons, and more;
Needing to prove that two 2's equal four.
Writing equations a mile in length,
Just to prove that you have no mathematical strength.

Learning the wisdom of guys who are dead.
Highlighting every word that Plato said.
Thinking deep thoughts way down in you mind,
Which quickly evaporate, come essay time.

Yes, college is odd and often quite strange.
Its purpose, perhaps, is to drive you insane.
And, yet, in the end, when the tests are all done,
I guess you might say that the time has been fun.