My mother enrolled in college at 42 while raising 4 kids. It was the same year I enrolled as a freshman.

• When I started college, my mother enrolled, too; she was 42 years old.
• She always wanted to be a teacher, so she studied hard while raising her three other children. 
• When she graduated and became a teacher, she became the woman I always knew she could be.

The year I went to college, my mother did too.

She enrolled at 42 years old after having three children. Some days, she questioned what she was doing in a classroom of kids my age. But my mother graduated at the top of her class with a degree in English and was named the recipient of a prestigious award.