Annastaciah Mikwa has made it.
After miraculously emerging alive six years ago from the Garissa massacre, amid 147 bodies torn apart by bullets and grenades, after 36 surgeries that in five years made her existence more complicated but less painful, after the risks of psychological collapse, of depression and disaffection for the world or at least for her future, the Kenyan girl who was saved from the massacre that on 3 April 2015 an Al Shabaab terrorist commando criminally carried out on the premises of the Kenyan university closest to the Somali border.
Early that morning, Annastaciah heard the last breaths of her three roommates, who were hiding under their beds.
All were shot in the head by machine gun fire. But not her, who, like her friends, had the rest of her body pierced, from the torso downwards, so that the heinous terrorists could be sure they were all dead.
The Kenyan university student survived, but her body was disintegrated.
"I am almost completely destroyed in my body," she told the BBC three years ago, "but not in my soul. I still have the strength to pursue my dreams.
The survivor's great strength was transformed a few days ago into a degree in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Embu. A recognition that the girl dedicated to all the students who did not have the chance to get there.
And it still wasn't an easy journey, interspersed with hospital stays, hours under the knife and rehabilitation.
"When they called my name, I walked down memory lane," she said, "I couldn't believe that I had gotten out of my chair and was walking alone without assistance. I had arrived at this crippled university, tortured in my soul and pushed into a wheelchair, and now I was walking tall to receive my degree and return home happy".
For Annastaciah, it was her faith in God that was fundamental, the same one she prayed to when the Somali terrorist commandos laid siege to the university for 12 hours, killing all the Christian students who could not escape the blows and saving only those who were able to prove their faith in Islam.
One hundred and forty-seven, as mentioned, would never come out of that hell alive, another hundred were wounded and nine of them would later die in hospital.
If anyone survived the attack, including the Muslim students, it was only by the grace of God," Annastaciah said. "The terrorists wanted to kill all of us who belong to the Christian faith. More than a hundred students survived but were seriously wounded, nine of them died in hospital. I am grateful to God for saving me.