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College student finishes her final while in labor at the hospital

December 26, 2017
Nayzia Thomas is seen finishing her psychology final exam in a hospital bed hours before she gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
Nayzia Thomas is seen finishing her psychology final exam in a hospital bed hours before she gave birth to a healthy baby boy.



ST LOUIS - A Missouri student's dedication is going viral thanks to a photo of her finishing up a final exam while sitting in a hospital bed preparing to give birth. Nayzia Thomas, a sophomore at Johnson County Community College, tweeted a photo that her mother snapped of her finishing up her psychology final while in labor at the hospital. Thomas said she wanted to be done with the semester before the birth of her son, Anthony Johnson, who arrived about 12 hours after she submitted her final. "It wasn't due until the end of the week," Thomas told Yahoo! Lifestyle of her psych final. "But my goal was to try to have everything done before. [I thought] before all this gets crazy, let me hurry up and finish this final." "School is so important to me," she said. "I didn't want [pregnancy] to be in the way. That's what people expect. You're a teen mom, you're a young mother. That's why my mom took that picture." Thomas said that despite the extra hardships that come with pregnancy, she finished the semester with a 3.5 GPA. "It shows I follow through," she said. - Agencies


December 26, 2017
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