All of My Undergrad Activities are Officially Over!!!

I am officially done!  Well, I mean I've been officially done since December so now I'm ceremonially done, I guess!

Since the G8 summit and Nato things are going to be imploding the Loop around the normal time of Columbia's graduation this year, Columbia had to bump up their dates a bit.  Which means the normal venue of the UIC pavilion was not available and we got to graduate at:

The Chicago Theater!  Pretty cool, right?

This was pretty cool for us theater peeps!

Fancy graduation marquee

See those flowers?  My family was very nice and gave me roses for graduation... but the thing is, I don't have a vase.

A new movement in DIY living, the ice tea bottle and wine vase!

After the graduation ceremony my family and I celebrated at The Clubhouse in Naperville where I was gifted a congratulations creme puff by the restaurant:

Mmmm tastes like learning

So thank you very much family for celebrating with me ^_^

After graduation I still had one more undergrad activity left, which was the Michael Merritt Awards.  This is an awards ceremony for the people who have won the awards, and beforehand an exhibition of emerging artists, grad students, and undergrad students.  It's basically like senior showcase, except in the lobby of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.  There were 3 of us from Columbia who participated:

Claire Sangster, Myself, Rachel Boylan, we are all pretty cool peeps.

So now that all of these exciting graduation times are over what am I going to do?  Start making plush like a crazy person because my first ever anime convention artist alley is in July!!!

Since I posted about finding a graduation dress, I thought you might want to see the final pick, also we are all super cute.

Graduation Dress Shopping

In May I get to walk across the stage of the Chicago theater which will symbolize the fact that I have completed my undergrad degree.  I will be wearing a black robe during this experience but it is traditional to look pretty under the black robe for after the actual walking, because of this I was on a dress hunt yesterday.

I like clothes, as in I like owning clothes that make me look cute, but I don't like shopping for clothes.  I would like shopping for clothes if I could just pick something off the rack and then it would magically fit me, but this is not the case.  You have to try things on and normally it is discouraging and kinda sucks.

Tiny boobs. No fun.

This dress was very pretty, but also made me look like I have absolutely no boobs.  I mean I know they are small but they still exist, not that you could tell based of this dress.

I then made Olivia try on this rainbow plaid thing that we found on the clearance rack:

Surprisingly not the most hideous thing

It was surprisingly not terrible, but the top ruffle does make it a bit much or it could have actually been adorable enough to buy.

We also found a dress with one of the worst patterned fabrics I have ever seen on the same clearance rack that rainbow plaid rufflepalooza came from.

A word of advice to designers, don't design fabric that just looks like it was stained.

This pattern gives the impression that this dress was bleached and then rolled in fryer grease and garbage.

This dress was so bad I didn't even try it on for fun.

Dress Vagina

That is probably the most unfortunately placed flower I have ever seen.  Oh and yes that pink is the back of the dress so the dress is thigh length in the front and has a train in the back.  Perhaps this is to emphasize the flower vag.

I did try on this awful dress for fun though.  It's lime green, hot pink, neon purple Leopard print AND it has matching colored giant plastic gems.

The biggest hot mess of a prom dress ever.

And the best part about this dress?  It totally fit me better than any other dress I tried on that day.

This is my sexy pose.

I considered getting this dress as my graduation dress because I am graduating from Columbia College Chicago, land of OMG I'M EXPRESSING MY INDIVIDUALITY but, then I would be wearing something because it's ironic and I don't really want to fully embrace full fledged hipsterdom at this current juncture.

So basically, I don't have a graduation dress yet.