Photo: Texas Southern University
Megan Thee Stallionis a savage and a scholar.
The three-time Grammy Award winner, 26, graduated Saturday afternoon from Texas Southern University with a bachelor of science degree in health administration, achieving a long-held goal that has remained close to heart amid her catapult to fame.
“Good morning hotties !!! It’s graduation dayyyy,” shewroteon Twitter with “#MeganTheeGraduate,” which has since been trending, featuring a custom emoji of Megan in her cap and tassel.
She shared the streaming link for the commencement ceremony with her combined 34 million Twitter and Instagram followers. “Hotties you can watch me graduate today starting at 12:00 here,” Meganwrote, along with some of her senior photos.
“WE DID IT HOTTIES,” she wrote to fans in celebration of her achievement.
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Megan received her diploma shortly after 12 p.m. local time, shaking hands with the HBCU’s 13th president, Dr. Lesia Crumpton-Young. She even obliged some of the faculty in posing for a selfie as she walked off the stage.
TheGood Newsartist previously shared some graduation photos to Instagram this week, for which she partnered with Nike. “HOTTIES…I’m officially a @nike Yardrunner, y’all!” Meganwrote. “I’ll be graduating from my HBCU TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY this Saturday!! I want y’all to remember that you can do whatever you wanna do and be whoever you wanna be, cause look at me!”
“I want to get my degree because I really want my mom to be proud,” Megan said in 2020.
In addition to losing her mother, Megan’s grandmother died not long after. “I want my big mama to be proud. She saw me going to school before she passed,” she added. “My grandmother that’s still alive used to be a teacher, so she’s on my butt about finishing school. I’m doing it for me, but I’m also doing it for the women in my family who made me who I am today.”
Megan also gave PEOPLE a glimpse atsome of her post-grad plans, which will include her fellow TSU alums.
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“I really wanted to be an administrator over a hospital, but I knew I still wanted to be Megan Thee Stallion. I was like, ‘What can I do?'” Megan explained. “I was like, ‘You know what, I’m gonna open an assisted-living facility and use the money that I make from rapping to open it. Then I’m gonna let my classmates run it.”
source: people.com
