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Megan Thee Stallionis continuing to celebrate her graduation!
On Monday, the 26-year-old Grammy winner shared several photos of herself in her cap and gown, with degree in hand, following her Texas Southern University graduation over the weekend. Also, in an interview withRolling Stone, Megan said she’d stay true to her word to open up an assisted living facility in her hometown of Houston, after revealing her philanthropic plans back in 2019.
“Still not over the fact that I can finally say I’m a college graduate 👏🏽 A HBCU COLLEGE GRADUATE 🐯Thank you to my friends and family for supporting me this whole time bc without y’all I would have lost my mind 😂,” wrote Megan. who graduated with a degree in health administration.
She alsoposteda sweet photo of her andboyfriend of one year, fellow rapperPardison Fontaine.
Speaking toRolling Stone, the singer expressed her excitement after graduating and shared that she plans to make a difference in the health community with her new degree.
“I’m still going to open up these assisted living facilities and I definitely want to hire new college graduates,” she said. “Nobody ever wants to hire you fresh out of college. They feel like you have no experience, so I want to create a place where you can get experience.”
Megan gave PEOPLE a glimpse atsome of her post-grad plans, which will include her fellow TSU alums, back in 2020.
“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 said at the time. “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.”
After a change of major and pivoting between in-person and online classes, while also juggling musical superstardom, Megan’s dream of becoming a college graduate finally came true on Saturday.
She told the outlet, “I thought I wanted to be a nurse and then I found myself at school and I was like, okay, definitely don’t want to be a nurse.”
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“I didn’t tell my parents I switched my major and then I started really rapping. I left Prairie View and I came home,” she said. I got a job, but I was still going to community colleges. Finally, I was like you know what? I need to go back on campus. So then that’s when I wound up at Texas Southern University."
The rapper, who was awarded the18th Congressional District’s Humanitarian Awardin Houston the same weekend that she graduated, launched the Don’t Stop Scholarship Fund in 2020, which gave two women of color pursuing college degrees $10,000, each. The “Savage” rapper also funded a full-ride scholarship for one lucky student at Jay-Z’s Roc Nation School of Music, Sports and Entertainment at Long Island University.
“I want to get my degree because I really want my mom to be proud,” Megan told PEOPLE in 2020.
source: people.com
