Hooding

I can't believe it's taken me this long to get to posting about this.  Probably because I've already totally overwhelmed people with pictures on Facebook!  I actually don't have many good pictures because my brother is currently holding them hostage on his camera...

The last week of school was both busy, and totally laid back at the same time.  We had a couple of parties, and we did things like clean out our lockers and get a whole bunch of signatures saying we could graduate.  Honestly I think it's almost harder to get out of dental school than it is to get in.

Graduation was May 12th, and my whole family flew out to Omaha the Thursday night before, including my awesome grandmother.  It was fun to show them around, and meet everyone else's families.  We had a hooding ceremony at the Jocelyn Art Museum on Friday (May 11th) in which my dad was my guest hooder.

Right before the ceremony.  All ready in our lilac robes and caps.  We tried to get a picture with all the Utah RDEP students, but we were missing two of the Daves.  

During the ceremony.  I felt like it was an episode of Harry Potter with all the different tasseled hats, robes, and hoods  the profs had on.

 This was a fun little ceremony for just the Dental school and our families, and we had a reception afterward at the school.  Some pictures afterwards.

Dave, Stephen, and I after the ceremony.

Me with Dr. Stout.  He was one of my favorite profs, and he actually wrote a letter that helped get me into my residency.  Also, I thought this was funny because everybody kept mocking me for my super sweet heels!  To be fair, they did end up giving me a massive blister after all the walking around that night.

Unfortunately I'll have to hunt down pictures of the actual ceremony.  Someone in the class had arranged a class picture, but I've only found one picture where I was actually visible.