Plymouth Meeting native Kyle Bone, winner of the 2016 Alumni Graduate Achievement Award and now a graduate of Montgomery County Community College with a GPA of 3.978, admits that getting where he is now has not been easy, writes Kayleigh DiGiacomo for the college’s website.

Bone struggled with depression during high school, and it caused him to miss a lot during his junior and senior years, including not taking his SATs and dropping out before graduation.

“However,“ he said, “I know that if I had not overcome that obstacle, I would not be nearly as driven, goal-oriented, and excited about the future.”

Enrolling at MCCC pushed Bone to demonstrate that he was capable of being an outstanding student.

After he received his GED, Bone took year off to save money working at Target and The Salvation Army, where he gained a reputation as a hard worker with outstanding leadership and organizational skills.

To build on his Associate’s Degree in Business Administration from MCCC, Bone now plans on earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Temple University.

“I was pleasantly surprised with the education that I received at MCCC,” he noted. “There exists a stigma about the educational legitimacy of community colleges, but I did not think it was applicable to MCCC in the least.”

Read more about Kyle Bone on the college’s website by clicking here.