After all, it was her career-ending injury to her right knee that led her to move back home with her parents and enroll at Middle Georgia State University.
While doing so, her sister snapped a picture that has since gone viral.
“This is what you call ‘Strong Priorities’. Contractions 3 minutes apart and still takes her Psychology Test! You are going to be a great mom baby sis!” Chapman said on Facebook.
Chapman was supposed to travel to the Bahamas last week to celebrate her anniversary, but delayed the trip to be there with her sister.
Collins said even her nurse was shocked about her taking the test, but she was determined to finish… and good news, she passed! However, she wasn’t satisfied with her first score so she requested to take the test over and ended up with a “B” on the exam.
After roughly 20 hours of labor, Collins delivered a healthy baby girl at 9:19 p.m. Tyler Elise weighed 7 pounds and 10 ounces. Collins said she has been loving every moment of being a mother and feels like it’s the biggest blessing she has ever had.
She thinks the photo especially struck a chord with young women who quit school because they were pregnant.
“There are so many people who have reached out to me and said, ‘I got pregnant when I was young, too, and I just felt like I couldn’t do school anymore,’ and they just gave up,” Collins says. “I feel like I’m their motivation to start again.”
Woman Takes College Exam…While In Labor! was originally published on blackdoctor.org
