VICTORIA’S Secret and Filipino-American model Kelsey Merritt took a trip down memory lane and looked back on her college life at the Ateneo de Manila University.
On her Instagram Stories, Kelsey recalled that there was a time when she needed to fly to Sweden for a shoot while doing college paperwork on the plane during her senior year at Ateneo.
“I had to shoot for H&M in Sweden and my 20-hour flights abroad from the Philippines usually looked like this – doing papers or catching up on readings I was missing out on,” she relayed.
The toughest part for her was to balance her time between school and work.
“Even when I was so tired and jet lagged I would still force myself to study,” she said.
Ever since freshman year, Kelsey shared that she was already working a lot in Manila.
“I was really busy with work and school so I didn’t have much time to have a college life. It was a hard thing to balance and my grades suffered my first year. I didn’t want to give up one or the other so I fought hard to find a system that worked for me where I could do both,” she said.
She remarked that Ateneo “was one of the best four years of my life.”(Push)
