Happy Holidays!

Twas the night before College deadlines
And all through Uni High
Not a student was stirring
Not even those who try
The essays were written with joy and care
In hopes that college decisions would soon be there
The students rested on their deserved winter break
While eating (Sorry PE!) lots of treats and cakes
And the other PCCs at home and I at my blog
Bring college help to clear the mental fog
When out by the mailbox, there arose such a clatter
I jumped off the couch to see what was the matter
Away to the window I ran with such speed
Folks on Cross Country should take heed ;]
The moonlight made the snow all bright
Like the school's awful fluorescent lights
When to my surprise, a car should appear
Pulling into my driveway to bring good cheer
With a young sassy woman, here to help
It must be Lisa, I said with a yelp
More speedy than Sally her smile it came
As she shouted colleges by their names
"Go Beloit, Go Wooster, Go Yale and Vandy
To Swarthmore, To MIT, To Knox and Bradley!
From coast to coast From the large to the small
Apply to them, apply to them, apply to them all!"
Like a Uni student coming across free food
Us PCCs were put in the right college mood
So to the computer all of us flew
With our college wisdom and dear Lisa too!
And, in a twinkling, we knew what to write
Blogs upon blogs to ease the junior's blight
Smiles and nods were spread all around
As Collegeboard was searched with a bound
It was full of college help, from beginning to end
Test prep, college search, and scores you can send
A flurry of websites and books that got our back
And candy brought by Lisa for our snack :D
Our mind--how it opened! Our hearts beat steady!
Our breaths, how they calmed, as we were ready!
Lisa with a smile, us with our grins
Our voices rose in quite a loud din
We made our Common App accounts right away
We thought of what our essays would say
Our teachers wrote fantastic recommendations
About how hard we worked on our educations
And Lisa produced our transcripts with care
Sending them to those colleges way out there
With the wink of her eye and the nod of her head
Made sure we knew we had nothing to dread
All school year we worked as PCCs
In order to help make the process a breeze
As the blog and the work came to a close
We all stretched our hands and from the couch we rose
Lisa sprang to her car and gave a wave
We sighed with relief, knowing we had been saved
But I heard her exclaim, as she drove out of sight
"Good luck with college, it will be all right."

Happy Holidays everyone!
-Your PCCs