28-Year-Old Single Mom Of 3 Graduates From UCLA With 3 Degrees
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She majored in bullshyt.
A 28-year-old single mother of three graduated from UCLA last week with two bachelor’s and a master’s degree to her name. Deanna Jordan, got pregnant as a teenager, and had her third son before the age of 25, but it was important for her to set a good example for her children.
Reports CBS Los Angeles:
“I needed for my sons to see there was a legacy that preceded them with college. I am the first in my family to go to college,” Jordan said.
Jordan grew up in Compton. After high school, she got pregnant at 18. She had her third son at 22.
“I had him and in the hospital I remember thinking, ‘I’m 22, there’s no future unless I can create one,’” Jordan said.
After two years at West Los Angeles Community College and three-and-a-half years at UCLA, the department scholar is graduating with two bachelor’s degrees and a master’s in African-American Studies.
“She had limited time, plus she took the initiative,” Dale Tatum, a UCLA lecturer, said.
Jordan also founded the Compton Pipeline Taskforce—she and UCLA volunteers work on academics at Compton schools, including Carver Elementary, where she attended.
“I saw the difference in how my boys were in school in Brentwood and then how schools were in Compton where I came from,” she said.
Jordan credits family support and UCLA for making her dreams a reality.
The new graduate will head to law school next (she’s taking a year off first). Her plan is to become a district attorney.
She has some words of wisdom on reaching your dreams: “You can’t really succeed unless you fail, and I failed a lot of times, but it was my persistence and my willingness never to give up.”
Well said.
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This chick could've cured cancer and they still throw shadeThat may be, but at least she is trying to make a better life for herself through education rather than sit on her ass and collect welfare checks. She can't win...tf is wrong with some of you?
“You can’t really succeed unless you fail, and I failed a lot of times, but it was my persistence and my willingness never to give up
^ the realest shyt ever spoke.
^ the realest shyt ever spoke.
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j/sPast mistakes as in getting pregnant multiple times at a young age
i wouldn't refer to having a kid as a mistake at any age. I don't have kids ... but i wouldn't
SouthernBelle
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She majored in bullshyt.
Most people who go to law school major in what you call a bullshyt degree.
Not if you're interested in IP
SouthernBelle
#Feyonce
I could be mistaken, but the article reads as if she did all this AFTER she had her third child. Should she have just gotten on welfare after popping out three babies?
SouthernBelle
#Feyonce
Not if you're interested in IP
Most of the people I know who went to law school major in english, sociology, and etc. Everything you need to know about law is taught in law school. I spent 4 years in undergrad doing work-study at a T20 law school (helping with clerkship applications, helping to plan for travel for the professors, and etc.). English/writing is the BEST skill a 1L can have.
SouthernBelle
#Feyonce
AA studies is bs
Yes...African and African American history is not a worthwhile degree.
How so?
