China News Service, June 15th. According to the US "World Journal" report, He Wenwen, 53 years old, accompanied by her son and friends, participated in the "Car Graduation" at Pasadena City College in the United States on June 12th. Ceremony" to celebrate her obtaining the first higher education degree in her life-an associate degree (Associate degree), and will transfer to Los Angeles State University (CalState LA) to continue studying accounting.
He Wenwen, who has retired, firmly believes that it is never too late to start learning in life.
She comes from the rural areas of Guangxi and had only a high school diploma before.
About ten years ago, her son went to the United States to study in high school.
A few years ago, she was still worried about her son and decided to move to the United States altogether.
At that time, she could only speak a few English words, and encountered various difficulties in communication in life and work.
She recalled that she had worked in a restaurant for a few months, and she didn't even know what the customer ordered rice and said "rice".
She thought, since she decided to live here, she must always learn English.
So five years ago, she started taking English classes at Pasadena College nearby.
After studying English for two years, she began to want to learn some other courses.
Because she had done some small business in China before, she started to take some business courses, and the credits for taking courses in a few years were enough to get an associate degree.
He Wenwen has very high academic requirements. If she only scored 95 points in any subject, she would feel sorry. She hopes that all subjects can achieve 97 points or more.
"If it weren't for two courses to pull down the score, my GPA could reach 4.0." He Wenwen said, but she quickly became excited again, saying that she was the team leader and had taken many honorary degree courses, and she was so young that she was not like her peer .
The original excellent grades were enough to transfer to UCLA, but she said that after all, she was older and did not pursue a diploma from a prestigious school, so she chose Los Angeles State University, which is more convenient for commuting, and chose accounting.
I haven't had a clear plan for my future career, but I have a mindset to study.
With such a "student tyrant" mother, He Wenwen's son is willing to bow down.
He also transferred from Pasadena College to UCLA at the time, and his grades at the time of the transfer were similar to those of his mother, "but she started from learning English at zero." Now he graduated for several years and worked in the financial industry.
He accompanied his mother to the graduation ceremony that day, and his colleagues and friends around him were also quite surprised.
"Study is to get acquainted." He Wenwen said, she felt that she used to forget things in life and her memory was not as good as when she was young. But since I started to read, my memory has obviously been exercised. Whether it's memorizing words or learning new knowledge, I don't even have to worry about losing things in my life. With her mobilization, many friends of the same age around her also attended the community college. She also laughed and said that she would keep the graduation uniforms for her friends to wear when they graduate. (Li Xue)