A 26-year-old woman named Zeinab Abdella graduated from the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota in the United States 21 hours after she gave birth. Her achievement also made her the first in her family to earn a master’s degree.
Zeinab, from Syria who moved to the United States obtained a master’s degree in Special Education. She showed up at her graduation ceremony 21 hours after she put into bed.
She gave birth to her daughter at 8pm but she was determined to walk the stage of her graduation the next day by 5pm. Zeinab was released from the Hospital in Minneapolis just in time to attend the ceremony with her newborn.
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“I discovered I was expecting my second baby in September 2017 and doctors told me my due date was on May 16. We are told our graduation date a year before it happens so I knew I would be graduating on May 19,” she said.
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“I had Salma around 8 PM and the next morning I discussed graduation with my family and my doctors and everyone was shocked. However, they were really supportive. It was really important for me to attend because I was the first person in my family to graduate. That’s the main reason I wanted to go,” she said.
Zeinab said attending her graduation was a very important moment for her as she is the first in her family to earn a master’s degree.
“I wanted to reward myself. It took so much hard work to get to this point. There were so many late nights studying, trying to get assignments in on time. Driving too and from college on those long winter nights. I needed to do this for myself,” she said.
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