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A young lady was not about to waste time feeling sorry for herself when she was unable to get a date for prom so she did the unexpected and showed up for the event with her Harvard acceptance letter as her date. Priscilla Samey, 17, is an exceptional student who got accepted into 7 out of 8 Ivy league colleges.
However, in spite of her acceptance into these prestigious institutions, the boys in her class did  not accept to go to prom with her, so this daughter of West African immigrants made do with the available.

On the night of prom, Priscilla dressed as beautiful as possible and stepped out with one of her acceptance letters.

She took a photo with the acceptance letter, looking like she did not have a care in the world, and shared it on Twitter with the caption:

“Couldn’t find a man to accept me for prom so I took a college that did #Harvard2021 #prom2k17”.

The tweet blew up really fast and has now garnered 28,000 retweets and 124,000 likes with lots of social

Rihanna received the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year Award at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre yesterday, on February 28, 2017, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Rihanna was honoured because of her work in her native island of Barbados and the charities she has founded over the years, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.



During the ceremony, Rihanna thanked the university for the honor and delivered an inspiring speech.