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ConGRADulations! #2, Part 3 (Parts 1 and 2)

Exciting news: Today I graduated from the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation at the University of Maryland—24 times! Including 9 master’s degrees, for a total of 26 degrees! Plus, I am even featured front and center on the school’s homepage and in their commencement announcement! 🎓🐢

The school’s communications office reached out to us a few weeks ago to ask if they could use my baby graduation photo for graduates without headshots. I am not a diamondback terrapin like the University of Maryland’s mascot Testudo, but I was more than happy to feature on the big virtual screen! 🌟

🎥 You can watch me graduate 24 times in their virtual commencement over here!

What?! MORE photos? MOOOOOM...

I shall demonstrate my doctorate degree: GRUMP GRUMP GIMME NOMS GRUMP! 😤

#graduation #University of Maryland #UMDgrad #Class of 2020 #Kirby #shellebrity #tortoise #Russian tortoise #graduation cap #diploma #crochet #laptop #tort in hand #cute #animals

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ConGRADulations! #2, Part 2 (Parts 1 and 3)

Graduations may be mostly virtual this year, but that doesn’t mean I can’t still walk across the stage at home!

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ConGRADulations! #2, Part 1 (Parts 2 and 3)

With all the growing and learning I’ve done since my baby graduation, I have now earned a new degree: A doctorate in GRUMP-ology!

I wonder if my baby graduation cap ages like wine?

#graduation #Class of 2020 #diploma #crochet #Kirby #graduation cap #shellebrate #then and now #NOMS #not noms #tortoise #Russian tortoise #cute #animals

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ConGRADulations!, Part 1 (Parts 2, 3, and 4)

Congradulations to all of this year’s graduates! You’ve made it!

My advice for success: Nom your diploma. Especially if it’s tied with red string.

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With (virtual) graduation season in full swing, here’s a flashback to when wee baby me graduated with a degree in nom-ology, which I demonstrated on my diploma and my graduation cap tassel!

How much have I grown since then? Well, here’s that same graduation cap on my head now:

New tiny hat trend? 😆

My baby graduation cap is so tiny it stays on my head without any help at all, even when I bob my head up and down!

#graduation cap #diploma #baby tortoise #OMNOMNOM #Kirby #red #NOMS #not noms #tortoise #Russian tortoise #graduation #rebagel #flashback #then and now #Class of 2014 #Class of 2020 #cute #animals