Between 1897 and 1899, Frost attended Harvard University, but he left the university without graduating and resumed his menial jobs. Frost shifted to New Hampshire, where he earned his living as a farmer, a teacher, and as a cobber. He continued to pen his poems while looking for newspapers and magazines to publish them. He even sent them to The Atlantic Monthly, but they were turned down with The Atlantic Monthly citing that they did not have a place for his rigorous verse, which was an insult to the way Frost had formatted his works, which were short and terse poems.