Started from the bottom now we... still at the bottom... sorta.

CONVOCATION! was two days ago, but I've finally gotten around to sit down and blab about it.

My day started at 5:45 a.m. to give myself a little more than two hours to have breakfast, dress, do my make-up, and calm my nerves before heading off to campus to pick up my regalia and report to the location we were supposed to report to. In actuality, I finished preparing in less than the two hours I had set out (it's a thing I do - giving myself way more time than I need!), and ended up leaving the house later than I had planned, but I was still on time for everything.

The weather was pretty dreary when I stepped out - it was cold, dark, and rainy; but by the time the ceremony was over, the sun was out and it was definitely warmer (maybe it was because I was baking underneath my black gown)!

My school is better than yours. ;)

It was also pretty windy, which was bad news for my hair, but yielded cool hair flip shots.

Dress from Winners; shoes from the Bay; Allegro bracelet from Joseph Nogucci;
crystal beaded bracelet from F21; birthstone earrings and matching bracelet from some Chinese jewelry store at Pacific Mall.

Here's a question: what do you do with your diploma? My mom bought a frame for it, so my diploma is currently framed... but where on earth is it supposed to go? I know my doctor, dentist, and optometrist all have their diplomas hanging in their offices, but does anyone ever put up their diploma at home?


One last thing to say.

After stepping out of the bookstore with my regalia, it suddenly hit me why part of me had dreaded convocation: as I stopped to look around for a familiar face, the loneliness I had felt during my entire university career came back. I had forgotten about it when I came home for the summer, but seeing how each person was with at least one other person congratulating each other and making post-ceremony plans, or talking about how they had all made it to whatever schools they had been hoping to get into just reminded me how pathetic I was at making friends and everything over the past four years.

Which is why I am so, so, SO grateful for the friends that I did happen to come by and I can't thank them enough. I don't know if they'll ever read this, but VL, BL, JL, MC, RL, BS, CK, ES, WS, GW, JW, SJ, and anyone else I may have missed who was kind enough to give me the time of day: thank you all for taking a chance on me and being awesome.

Congrats, class of 2013!

 

For a free tassel that didn't even come with a cap. Preposterous!

Forever a Mustang,
Yours truly.