Mom, 3 daughters graduating from Georgia State on similar day

ATLANTA — Commencement is about to be further particular for the Lee household this 12 months. Together with twin sisters strolling the stage, they’re going to be joined by their older sister and mother on the identical day, every graduating with levels. 

Mom Quila Lee, daughter Rakiya Lee, and twins Kamiya and Kalaya Lee will obtain their grasp’s and bachelor’s levels throughout graduation on Might 7. The commencement ceremony might be held on the Georgia State Convocation Heart.

“Which is insane. It is insane to have the ability to say, ‘I am graduating, however not simply with my twin sister, with my older sister, who I look as much as, after which my mother, who all of us look as much as,'” mentioned Kalaya.”It is identical to, oh my goodness. ‘Who’d have thought?;”

The Lee twins, each Biology majors, have medical faculty aspirations. One desires to be a gynecologist, the opposite a veterinarian. 

 “We even have that very shut bond, and she or he’s my twin, so we just about do the whole lot collectively,” mentioned Kamiya. “We have carried out the whole lot collectively up till this level.” 

Rakiya known as it surreal to be graduating alongside her little sisters and her mother, as she receives her grasp’s diploma in public administration. 

“She’s the glue of our household, for positive, and she or he simply retains being the trailblazer,” Rakiya mentioned of her mother. “And I am gonna observe behind her.”

Quila additionally holds a Grasp’s Diploma in Public Administration, like her oldest daughter. She recalled holding her twin daughters in her arms throughout that commencement. On Wednesday, she’s going to now obtain her second grasp’s, a Grasp’s of Arts in Instructing. 

“I keep in mind the day that they have been born, and I keep in mind them being part of my commencement, and now I get to be part of theirs,” Quila mentioned because the household appears to be like ahead to strolling the stage on Wednesday. 

Quila admitted she’s extra excited for her daughters than for herself, however her daughters mentioned their mother is the primary purpose they’re strolling throughout the stage. 

“I believe my mother is the very best. I believe she’s an excellent function mannequin,” Kamiya mentioned, as she began to get choked up. “And I thank God that he gave me my mother… and allowed me to have any person like her to look as much as and to aspire to be like.”

11Alive requested Quila what it meant to her to listen to her daughter’s phrases of reward. 

“I can say that I used to be actually touched. Oftentimes, you do not know the influence that you simply’re having in your baby. You hope that you’re empowering the perfect a part of you. You hope you might be giving the perfect route. You hope you might be parenting the perfect that you may, understanding that no baby comes with directions. And then you definitely look again on if you have been rearing them, and also you suppose, ‘Oh, nicely, hindsight is all the time 2020.’ I’ll have carried out this otherwise. I’ll have reacted otherwise to this,” mentioned Quila. “However to listen to them say what they mentioned lets me know that I did not do a foul job.”

The Lee household is about to graduate on Wednesday, Might 7.