Sarah Simkins is getting her college degree at age 101.
According to WTOK News, the grandmother is studying early childhood education at Brightpoint Community College in Chester, Virginia. Simpkins is able to study at the college due to Virginia’s Senior Citizens Higher Education Act of 1974, which allows senior citizens to enroll in higher education at no cost.
Simpkins dropped out of college more than eight decades ago after becoming pregnant. She later had 12 children but always wanted to finish her degree. “I wanted to do that just to prove to me that I can do it,” Simpkins told WTOK News.
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