First picture: After the ceremony with roses from my parents. Second picture: With my dad, in my cap and gown.
Today I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. in the Biological Sciences, a B.A. in Physics/Astronomy, and a minor in Chemistry. Although my final grades haven’t been posted yet, it appears I will be graduating Phi Beta Kappa with high honors. Normally, I don’t post about personal events on my blog, but since this pertains to my career and everyone is always so nice, I thought it might be nice to post about it here. 
Over 8000 students graduated today. The ceremony was great: Dan Marino, a Class of ’83 Pitt alum, gave the graduation address, and was awarded with an honorary doctorate. I’m a pretty big football fan, so I was pretty stoked. His speech emphasized not only the importance of hard work, but also family, which I thought was really touching. I enjoyed the whole process.
I’m pretty excited to be done with undergrad and am ready to embark on the next stage of my life, medical school!
Congratulation!
Congratulations and Best Wishes. I don’t know how you have time to study, do so well in school, AND enlighten us with all of this info- you rock. Hope you take some time to relax before school starts up again.
Cheers- Sofi x
Congratulations!!! I always enjoy reading your posts.
Congratulations Nicki, wish you all the best in your career which you have started already
. you are our future hope for a perfect young skin.
Hey Nicki, CONGRATS!!!!!
Good for you, and good for us-you are one step closer to your goal.
All The Best-
Congratulations on a great achievement! I love reading your blog and I hope you will have time to continue posting while in med school.
Congratulations on your graduation Nicki! I found your blog a few months ago and am a faithful reader. Thanks for all the great info and product reviews. Wishing you much success as you head off to medical school.
Wonderful!!! Congratulations on an impressive finish!
You go, girl!
Congratulations and Best Wishes for medical school! Its refreshing to see a young lady so passionate about her studies and her career.
Nicki, that is awesome. You have a very bright career in front of you.
Congratulations! I’m so happy for you!
I know you’ll continue to have much success.
Congratulations and good luck with medical school!
congrtas, but wait a minute, ou’ve been wirting about all these products you love and they’re not suitable for your gae, unles you’re a late uni goer. are you? i assume you’re 22-25… so wtf girl? you might not even need night cream yet.
Thank you all so much!!
And in response to Alla, yes, I am 24 years old, you are correct. I’ve always loved reading ingredients labels (since I was sitting in a shopping cart, in fact), so I love researching product ingredients, even if I don’t always have a need for, say, a wrinkle relaxer yet. But I have taken your comment to heart, and am going to get family and friends to try products and give additional input from now on
Take care,
Nicki