Graduation – LIZZIE APEL http://lizzieapel.agnesscott.org Wed, 04 Dec 2019 05:27:20 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 http://lizzieapel.agnesscott.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-IMG_20190827_224526_886-2-32x32.jpg Graduation – LIZZIE APEL http://lizzieapel.agnesscott.org 32 32 Graduation Cap http://lizzieapel.agnesscott.org/graduation/graduation-cap/ http://lizzieapel.agnesscott.org/graduation/graduation-cap/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2019 05:17:50 +0000 http://lizzieapel.agnesscott.org/?p=508 Read more…]]> Context: Many college graduates choose to decorate their graduation caps with a design (typically relating to their major or field of study) that expresses their personality. I have been looking forward to decorating my graduation cap since I first started attending college!

The design I ultimately chose to go with for my graduation cap highlights my passion for physics and electronics by incorporating (and recycling!) various electronics components. These components were all either malfunctioning or broken beyond repair (blown fuses, dead IC chips, etc.) and were no longer useful to keep in the Agnes Scott College electronics lab.

“Graduation Cap” by Lizzie Apel is licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0.

Rather than throwing them out, Dr. Ackerman generously donated them to me so that I could affix them to my graduation cap using a combination of hot glue and spray-on acrylic sealant. I also chose to paint a phrase on my graduation cap- I went with a song lyric from the musical RENT that mentions the physics concept of entropy, a phenomenon I have always found to be rather poetic in nature.

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