It’s 2023 now. Joyce is a 90-year-old mother of nine, grandmother of 17, and great-grandmother of 24. You may think the old woman has stopped doing anything, but you’d be wrong. Joyce just made history as one of the oldest graduates of a university.
Back in 1951, Joyce went to university, hoping to get a degree. She almost made it to graduation. But three-and-a-half years later, she met a good looking guy. The two decided to get married. Putting her degree on hold, Joyce had three babies in three years. Five years later, her husband died. A few years later, she married again and had six more children. She clearly had her hands full, but she never stopped thinking about her unfinished college degree.
Years later, Joyce mentioned this feeling of unfinished business to her children. They bought her a computer and encouraged her to finish the degree. Finally, she went to the university again. She took online courses. Every day, she sat down and did some school work. She kept going even when it was hard and she felt like giving up. “A lot of time I would have given up. But there were just too many people who knew about it. I didn’t want to let them down,” Joyce said. Her hard work paid off when she finally graduated.
Joyce encourages anyone who’s considering challenging themselves like she did. “Keep going. Don’t give up,” she said. “You might feel like giving up, but just hang in there because the end will come and you will win.”
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