Graduation and a PhD!

Hey everyone! Hope you're all well! On Tuesday I finally graduated! These past three years have gone soo quickly! I know everyone says it but the years just fly by! And to add to the good news I've also been offered a PhD! So I'll be starting that in October which is extremely exciting :)

I'm not going to lie, I've been a bit nervous about it :') I think my main worry was falling over on stage as I wanted to wear heels XD #shortgirlproblems but it's okay I didn't, although my brother said that I was the slowest person to walk across the stage as I took baby steps, I think he's exxagerating XD 

The day went by quite quickly, my ceremony was at 10:45 and we had to be seated half an hour before, collect gowns and tickets and find somewhere to park. We initially decided to leave at 7am (sooo early!) but by the time I got ready it was 7:30 XD Although there was no traffic on the motorway as we were heading away from London so we arrived and were parked by around 9am :) This left us plenty of time to take photos and get my gown etc :)

 

The gowns were really weird! They just kept falling backwards but you got used to it, and the hats felt strange on too XD Luckily our ceremony was quite short and I think it roughly took an hour which is really nice as I think 2-3 hours is too long XD We got seated in alphabetic order and then our row would be told to stand up and make our way downstairs to walk on stage. When we walked up we didn't shake hands with the Pro-Chancellor but instead we put our hands together as if in a prayer and she placed her hands over ours and said a few words. She was actually really lovely and had a mini conversation which was really sweet and unexpected! She said like congratulations and asked whether we enjoyed our time at Uni and what we had planned next which was lovely. Afterwards we walked off stage and made our way back to our seats :)

 

After the ceremony there was a drinks reception in a marquee with drinks and finger foods for graduates and their guests which was nice as by then we were all hungry and thirsty XD So we had some nibbles and took some more photos including the classic hat throwing ones :)

 

I wanted to wear a white dress, as I thought it was something simple and that it would go nicely. But when you're looking for something particular you can never find it anywhere! Luckily I came across this textured, white skater dress in the Zara sale for £16 which is a bargain and it was really nice quality :) I then wanted some sandals to go with them, like the strappy heeled sandals that everyone has but I couldn't find hardly any in my size as they were all in the sale and then ones I did find were too big :( My fault for having tiny feet! In the end I wore some dusty pink shoes that I already own from Peacocks even though they're a little bit big but it went nicely :)

So all in all that was my graduation! It was a lovely day and it was really nice to see all my friends that were graduating and even some that are staying on to do a Masters came to say hello :) I'm happy that I've graduated and I'm excited to spend my next three years doing a PhD :)

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