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The Waiting Place…
A Dr. Seuss-esque guide to waiting for college decisions 

Congratulations!   

Today is your day     

You’ve submitted your application! 

You're off and away!

The hard part is over. 

No more essays to write.

You’re done with applying. 

You feel high as a kite.

 

But that high flying feeling 

escapes rather fast. 

All of a sudden it hits you 

like an unwanted blast. 

 

You’re done with applying 

nothing else left to do.

What’s done has been done 

and the decision’s not up to you. 

 

You studied hard in school,

took the SATs twice.

You played two sports (plus chess club)

and volunteered with the elderly playing dice. 

 

Now it’s out of your hands

What if it isn't enough?

The doubt has set in, 

did you do cool enough stuff?

 

You’re all hung up.

You’re left in a worry. 

And you wish, Wish, WISH

the admissions office would hurry, Hurry, HURRY!

 

You get yourself all confused

so you go off in a race

down long wiggling roads at a break-necking pace

and grind on for miles cross weirdish wild space,

headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.

The Waiting Place...

 

...for people just waiting.

Waiting for a train to go

or a bus to come, or a plane to go

or the mail to come, or the rain to go

or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow

or the waiting around for a Yes or No

Everyone is just waiting.

 

So I say to you now 

as you wait, wait, wait

that no matter what happens 

don’t dread your fate.

 

Whatever they say, 

be it a “yes”, “maybe”, or “no”

everything works out in the end 

and, oh, the places you’ll still go! 

 

No matter what the answer

please never forget 

you’re off to great places 

and that’s a sure bet. 

 

So, whatever your name is 

wherever you’re from 

whatever college does or doesn’t allow you to come,

you’re off to Great Places!

Today is your day!

Your mountain is waiting.

So...get on your way!

 

~ The content above is a combination of my own writing and Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” 

Feature image curtesy of: https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/the-waiting-place-by-dr-seuss/