Just call me Mrs. Robinson, 'cause I'm the latest installment of THE GRADUATE. Straight to dvd.
This is my sassy graduate pose, it really accentuates the sleeves on this very high quality, breathable polyester gown.
These are the folks who made it all happen (aka mated then gave birth to me and stuff.)
This is the sparkly dress I wore to dazzle everyone with my ~*great potential*~.
As I am told, sometimes convocations bring in established, successful and sometimes even famous people to give speeches filled with "sage life advice" for recent graduates. Unfortunately, this does not happen at the University of Waterloo and instead, we had a number of short speeches ranging from how great the University of Waterloo is, to the current state of the environment, to a Valedictorian who told us to thank our parents for paying for school, to how great the University of Waterloo is. All in all, I found myself wishing I went to Hogwarts or Oxford or something else stuffy and British just so there would have been more pomp and circumstance. Some trumpets would have been nice . On the plus side, I never have to go back there again and I got to wear a really sparkly dress under my sweaty polyester gown, so there we go.
Onwards and upwards, dudes. Now that this chapter in my life is officially closed, ummm... I am struggling with finding a great end to that sentence because actually no one hands you a blueprint with some instructions that your life is supposed to follow so I guess I'll just keep it cryptic. We'll see.
57 comments:
I'm so happy for you! Tell us about this dress- It looks amazing!
Congratulations on graduating and also on that sweet sparkly dress! You look good girl!
CONGRATS!
P.S. this sparkly dress- amazing!And heels, too!
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great pics. very winona reality bites.
liked your ceremony description.
talking of hogwarts, last year I saw
some kids on the london underground
in capes and everything. never had time
to find out anything, they were gone in
a flash. insane dress.
woo congrats isabel!!
'On the plus side, I never have to go back there again .'
Counting down the days until I can say that in October.
And good luck with that next chapter. I will watch for you in the editorial page of a fashion magazine.
I love the dress!!! It is super sparkly :)
CONGRATULATIONS! Sometimes pomp can be overly much and you're better off with an understated ceremony, but I guess grass is greener on the other side right?
But still, big milestone. Wow. Uni over. Congrats, again, and nice sparkly dress. ;)
Yea!! You graduated!!! Congratulations!
Love the sparkly dress, but really love your proud beautiful smile even more. I'm so happy for you. I hope you don't feel too pressured by that degree, just do whatever makes you feel happy and brings in enough money to pay your rent.
Your folks look really nice.
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The sparkly getup is KEY. Lookin qttttt
Very pretty dress !
Congrats ! I’ll be graduating in 2 years :)
Congrats dude!
congratz, isabel. ur parents are totally adorable, i love it.
dress + mary janes = muy bueno
onwards and upwards. i am excited to see what the future has in store 4 u.
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aw Congratulations Isabel! I'm kind of glad University is over too, some days it makes me sad though. At least I was learning new things at Uni, now I'm just employed at a boring place, and struggling to find a job in my field. It's a little depressing. Hopefully you'll have more luck than me, I'm sure you will.
Woo, congrats ladypants!
Congratulations, I'm loving the fabulously sparkly dress! xxx
awesome that you graduated! the dress and shoes are super cute. almost as amazing as that sweet robe. i gotta get myself one of those.
You remind me of Audrey Hepburn.
so many congratulations!!! adulthood is awesome, trust me. it fucking rules. it breaks my heart that growing up is so looked down upon in our culture because wisdom and learning things and feeling better about life and figuring shit out feels SO GOOD. best of luck you, isabel. <3
Congratulations, oh, dazzling and sage one! :)
You have become a lovely young woman. Welcome to the big bad world!
Congratulation dear :)
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congratulations!! I'm jealous, I'm counting down the months until I can graduate from college next May. but I will not let my parents guilt me into going to the ceremony!
Hiya Isabel
Congratulations and good luck!
This is a great post. I love the snark. Congratulations too ;)
Congratulations, and excellent sparkly dress! I made the schoolboy error of forgetting that I would have to wear a crappy gown over mine, and picked something that looked stupid once the gown was one. Very nicely done!
What an absolutely lovely dress to sparkle in on your graduation day!
Congratumelations lady! x Welcome to the real grown up world....
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For my brother's graduation from Imperial College, the university had booked out the Royal Albert Hall and when each individual's name was called out, two huge screens above the stage recorded their acceptance. At the beginning and end, we had to stand and sing God Save the Queen (or something like that). It was super epic, though I'm not sure how Hogwarts does it.
Hey everybody, I'm Sami. First off I want to say I really love your blog. It's really inspiring to me and you've really helped me get a headstart on my blog, 10 Million Questions. Second off, your dress is beautiful. All the outfits you put together are really creative and I feel like I can look up to you. I know you probably really hate advertising, and I'm not trying to advertise, but since you're such an inspiration to me I wanted to know if you could possible look at my blog and tell me what you think of it? It's fairly new, so I only have three or four posts done, but I update daily so I will surely have more posts soon. The link for it is 10MillionQuestions.blogspot.com
congrats!
love the black dress!
Kudos on graduating! I wish you the best for the rest of your life :)
awh, great pictures!
CONGRATS:D
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Congratulations, I really really love the sparkly dress, sparkles always win. You know, I'm personally looking forward to wearing a silly acedemic robe...I think I'll feel quite the wizard even though I go to a muggle university talking photos in the gothic revival corners about the place...sigh still a while to go
nice xx :))
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super stunning look! my congrats! love your style!
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congrats yay! my ceremony is next week i really hope i don't stack it or do i, at least that will be memorable. great dress underneath i plan on being nakey
hey congrats! my ceremony is next week blah i hope i don't trip or do i? cute sparkly dress underneath i plan on rocking up nakey at this point.
yeahhhh i wish i went to hogwarts too. I like your blog.
Gorgeous dress. Congrats on graduating!
Gorgeous dress. Congrats on graduating!
congrats, darling!!! ♥ u loook so happy! and the dress fits perfect on u, it is so cute! ♥
pd: I ad u in my last post-list of person that inspires to me! :)
congrats on graduating! simply love your sparkly outfit! so tres chic!
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Congrats--you had me lol re your parents mating!! You are sooo funnY!!
Loving your blog,
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Not sure how your blog fell off my radar but wow the last time I looked you were barely going into college! Congratulations!!
your blog is so funny!
and I loooove the dress <3
SPARKLES!!!!!
xx
Congratulations! You look super cute!
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Congrats! I love your hair the moment, you have managed to do dip dye authentically, rathe than fazing into the shitty ombre faze of everyone where I live!
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Hi Isabel! Congrats on making it through undergrads. Whooohooo!!!
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Please start blogging again soon.
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Congrats !
Congratulations!!!! Very cute dress as well :)
Big big congratulations, must feel amazing to know you've finished it all! PLUS your sparkly dress is perfect ;D
xxx
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