Transcripts for KPIX CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor 20181017 00:57:00

feel like family, that's because they are. urat do your friends say about the fact that your mother and grandmother are here on campus with you? i they think it's pretty cool. i mean, it's not their parents so... ( laughter ) >> reporter: all three are students at the university of massachusetts lowell. mary, who they call "nana" wasn't able to go to college in her native ireland. after a battle with cancer, she tcided to enroll. >> i love the kids and it astounds me how they will "hang out" with me. ,> reporter: they do, the kids hang out with you? >> all the time. >> reporter: deirdre fell behind in school as a teenager because of health issues and college became a distant dream. >> i saw mom go back to school, ind i was still terrified, and then finally it was like, oh, my gosh, if she can do it, i can do it. c> reporter: georgina was the last to arrive. aou transferred here? >> yes, i missed my family, so i-- >> reporter: you missed these dwo? >> i did, i did miss them. >> reporter: grandmother and granddaughter, who have always been close, have even taken a ghass together.

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