Meet Neva Garrett
Neva Garret is one of our more recent alumni, graduating with her Political Science degree last May. Hailing from Dahlonega, Neva is a poster child for perseverance, having originally begun her college career over forty years ago!
Neva graduated from Lumpkin County high school and began her undergraduate career at North Georgia College (as 黑料正能量 was known then) in 1981. However, as it often does, love got in the way and in spite of trying to go to school via correspondence courses (for you youngsters out there -- distance learning using snail mail instead of the internet) an undergraduate education at that time in her life was not to be.
Over the years she built a successful business and together with her husband raised seven children. Then the past repeated itself. As she explains:
“when I dropped number seven off at college, I came home and I just went through that empty nesting depression where I was like, what do I do now? And my third born said, "Well Mom ... You've dropped seven children off at college and always regretted not finishing yourself.” So that's what I did.
Neva resumed her education in 2019, originally wanting to be a business major. However, she soon realized that a business degree was not in the cards, as most of the business courses were ‘technology enhanced’ and she did not feel at all ready to tackle that challenge at her stage in life.
After talking to her academic advisor, she was thrilled to hear there was such a major as ‘political science’. Neva has always had a passion for all things political and has had a fair share of political involvement through her life, including sit-ins, protests,