Storm Reid Celebrates Her USC Commencement

Storm Reid is a school graduate! 

The Euphoria alum celebrated her school commencement from the College of Southern California College of Dramatic Arts on Thursday, Might 15. The actress, 21, posted a sequence of Instagram Tales and posts commemorating the event.

On Tuesday, Might 13, she posted an Instagram carousel of her commencement images, as she posed along with her commencement stole round USC campus. 

“The previous few months, everyone’s been asking how i really feel about graduating. my reply? pray for me. effectively…your prayers labored. and that i couldn’t thank the individuals who prayed for me sufficient. right this moment i formally completed my undergrad at USC,” her caption learn.  

“There have been so many instances i didn’t suppose i’d make it. the end line regarded shut, however felt to date. however with God? something is feasible.” 

“Selecting USC was the perfect resolution i might’ve made — it really modified my life. i’m without end grateful and can without end FTFO,” she wrote, including the varsity’s slang, “Combat the F— On.” 

“4 years of trusting God. this proper right here is proof that miracles do occur. and now i ask y’all once more… what can we name my success PLUS a level?? ♥️,” the caption concluded. 

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The tip of her caption was seemingly a reference to a impolite remark she obtained on one in all her April TikTok videos criticizing her resolution to attend school. “What can we name my success, plus going to school?” Reid replied. “My success plus getting a level? What are we gonna name that? Let me know.”

“And also you’re proper, school is not for everyone, however it was for me. I wished to go. I felt like I wanted to go. I used to be ready to try this and work full time. I wished to work and I wished to additional my training, so I did that,” she continued.

“I am all for individuals having their very own opinions. However let’s be actual. Let’s faucet into actuality. I did that. And I additionally acquired an Emmy whereas doing it, in school, 20 years previous, junior in school.”

She additionally added an Instagram carousel on Thursday, Might 15, alongside two of her mates and fellow graduates. Within the images, they posed collectively in a classroom in entrance of a blackboard that learn, “Surviving USC 101.”

Additionally on Thursday, Might 15, she posted a number of images and movies to her Instagram Tales of her ceremony. She reposted her mates’ and household’s Instagram Tales to her personal profile, displaying movies of her having her title learn aloud for the gang. 

Her Instagram Tales additionally included a short video and a photograph collage of her posing in her white commencement gown.

In an unique interview with PEOPLE on the NAMI Psychological Well being Gala Honoring Robert Downey Jr. and Craig Dubitsky on Might 8, Reid mentioned she deliberate to “take a beat” after graduating, however is “very excited” about what comes subsequent in her performing profession. Her subsequent huge mission is director Teyana Taylor’s Get Lite. She additionally has different initiatives within the works that she could not “say an excessive amount of about.”

“I am very excited, and it will be a really busy finish of the 12 months and a really busy 2026,” Reid instructed PEOPLE.