A yearly graduation tradition, and a last celebration, many Seniors decorate their graduation cap to commemorate their high school experience.
Decorations can range from none, to fully blinged out and painted. Art 4 Senior, Izzy Glover, planned to decorate her cap with an album cover and sling lyrics.
“I love the Rumours album as a whole and it is my favorite album by Fleetwood Mac but I also really love Landslide as it’s a very emotionally charged song so I decided to just combine them,” Glover said. “I also think the lyrics of Landslide really capture how over high school you tend to grow into a very different person in comparison to when you started and how you’ve started to grow into yourself by the end of it.”
Although the song lyrics and album are deeply personal, others, like Lin Cooper, wanted to decorate their cap with something that encapsulated their high school experience.
“I am doing, on my grad cap, all my dismissal slips from this year. On top of all the slips, it’s going to say, ‘Mom, can you dismiss me.’ I have been dismissed over 20 times this year. It shows my personality and my experience and how I was in high school,” said Lin.
With a more literal take to a graduation cap, some decide to decorate it with their college. Senior, James Hern, is using his cap as a reflection and celebration of his high school experience.
“I chose it because I feel like it would be weird if I didn’t,” James said. “It’s weird not to because you should have pride in graduating. Not everyone gets to do that and we should all cherish it.”
Lily Gamble, a senior at OA, is combining the two ideas of creativity and college to create a cap that is deeply personal to her.
“I am putting my college because I like the colors of it, but I wanted to include my friends too,” Lily said. “My friends have been a part of my high school experience and have been the same throughout all the years, so I just wanted to include them on my cap.”
Differing from the above students, some believe that leaving the cap empty is the way to go. Senior Riley Sims follows this philosophy.
“I feel like a lot of people do that and some people don’t,” Riley said. “I just want to fit in and be normal.”
As it is the last “obligation” the seniors have to tackle, for some, Like RJ Schuster, the senioritis has kicked in.
“I don’t really feel like it. It’s a lot of work, honestly,” RJ said.
