I am officially a dental hygienist! It felt amazing to walk across the stage to get my diploma in my hands. That piece of paper is very expensive and hard-earned!
This graduation was different because the school was 100 years old so it was just us and the Dentists together for grad. It was so much more special than graduating with all the Health Science classes. It was special because I knew *mostly* everyone and it was just a little under 2 hours. That's pretty good, right?
Because of the 100 years we were allowed to have someone walk across the stage with us to make it memorable. I didn't pick anyone, but some chose their young kids or husbands to walk across the stage with them. I was happy enough to have my parents all the way from Alberta in the crowd to cheer me on and Kenny!
Here's some pics of the day...
I missed the memo about stopping for a photo. I just kept cruising!
(sorry for the blurry pic, Mom has a better one)
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| so happy to be done! Kenny surprised me with flowers:) |
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| Michelle and I. Best buddies through all this! |
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my biggest supporter (financial and mental) and I.
Without him I probably couldn't have done it! |
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| a few of the girls |
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| Kenny's artistic side;) |
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walking to dinner. Dad gave me his sweater to wear because
I was cold. Some things never change;) |
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| Baton Rouge for a celebratory dinner |
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| two very special people to me :) They mean the world to me. |
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| some of the table |
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Amarillo Chicken. I got fries for once. I'm a geek and wish I'd ordered
veggies;) |
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| Kenny's steak sandwich with a side of horseradish. Mmm. |
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| Mom, Dad and I |
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| Kenny picked me up an ice-cream cake. They are just so delicious... |
After my graduation dinner I thought all the festivities were over until I got a voicemail from my pal Michelle saying she had an extra ticket for a big gala dinner for Saturday night. It had to do with the graduation week but tickets were $125+ tax. I was all for it and it was definitely a fancy gala. I'll do a little post on that tomorrow!
Questions:
Did you graduate this year/when did you graduate? What from?
Who was your biggest supporter during college?
Such nice photos!! Seems like a really nice graduation ceremony, you should be proud! And what a cute cake :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was a really nice ceremony and the cake was almost my favorite part. Haha
DeleteCongratulations Hide!!! Lovely pic of you with your parents : ) I graduated med school in 09. My parents have always been my biggest supporter in all things I've done. They are the best, and I owe so much to them.
ReplyDeleteThank you!! Parents are amazing and I owe them too much!
DeleteCongrats on graduating :D
ReplyDeleteSo exciting!!!
Thanks! I was so excited to graduate!
DeleteCONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm writing my dissertation for my PhD now, so I'm hoping to graduate soon!!
Thanks!!
DeleteYAY, it'll be here before you know it!
SO proud of you Heid!! So exciting to be a graduate!! Can't wait to see pics now about this fancy gala :) Rach
ReplyDeleteThanks Rach! It felt great to finish! :)
DeleteWahoooo!!! Congratulations Heidi! After all those grueling hours - you did it! :) :)
ReplyDeleteSo glad your parents could be there with you too. One more of life's big milestones - enjoy!
Thanks Janna! I am pretty proud of myself for sticking it out:) Having my parents at my Graduation made it that much better!
DeleteCongratulations. :) I like the idea of a smaller graduation, just you and the dentists. Ours was the entire year and to be perfectly honest, I found it quite tedious. Our guest speaker was away with fairies as well, according to him, we had nothing to worry about at all, we'd have no trouble finding graduate jobs, everything was just peachy. What we really needed to hear was "It's going to be hard, but you're tougher than anything that gets thrown at you." That, at least, would have been true.
ReplyDeleteBut anyway, that's a lovely picture of you with your parents. It reminds me of a picture I have of me and my Mum taken on my graduation day. It was after the ceremony, we'd gone to a little Italian place that was one of our haunts while I was at university. It's one of the few pictures of my graduation day where I actually managed a genuine smile. (That might have had something to do with the massive great pizza that had just arrived in front of me though. :) )
Thanks, Nic! I think the smaller graduation was way better than 500+ students! Pizza makes me smile, too. Haha!
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