Markings, meanings, everything In between: students tell the stories behind their tattoos part 23

Let’s talk about new beginnings and fresh starts.  Change is inevitable, but making change in order to open new doors takes real courage. Along with recently transferring to the University of Rhode Island as a third-year, Emmett Cummins from Providence, R.I. made the permanent decision to get a tattoo.  The reason for getting tattoos varies…

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Markings, meanings, everything in between: Students tell the stories behind their tattoos, Part 22

Pictured: Last word of Michilangelo on DJ Ferrazzano’s forearm. Photo Courtesy of: DJ Ferrazzano At the University of Rhode Island, DJ Ferrazzano, a first-year psychology and criminal justice major, has two tattoos on her arms and one on her hip. According to Ferrazzano, she got her first tattoo behind her right arm above her elbow….

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Markings, meanings, everything in between: Students tell the stories behind their tattoos, Part 21

Pictured: tattoo on Lucas’ arm. PHOTO CREDIT: Lucas DeWitt For some tattoos are saturated in meaning, for others they are a spur-of-the-moment decision, for Lucas DeWitt, there is a healthy balance between the two. DeWitt, a current graduate student in the College Student Personnel Program, got his first tattoo during his first semester of college…

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Markings, Meanings, Everything in Between: Students tell the stories behind their tattoos, part 20

Pictured: Bryn Mulligan’s horseshoe crab tattoo. Photo contributed by: Dylan Hubbard Bryn Mulligan, a fifth-year wildlife and conservation biology major, got her first tattoo, a stick and poke of Saturn, at the age of fifteen. Her first professionally done tattoo was etched into her skin on her eighteenth birthday, and she has accumulated ten more…

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Markings, Meanings, Everything in Between: Students tell the stories behind their tattoos, part 18

Pictured: “Hang loose” tattoo on Whitney VanLoon’s ankle. Photo Contributed by: Dylan Hubbard Fourth-year nursing student Whitney VanLoon, despite having numerous tattoos of differing meanings, says one of her favorite tattoos is a “hang loose sign,” as she puts it, on her ankle. The hang loose sign depicts the common symbol of a hand with…

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Markings, Meaning, Everything in Between: Students tell the stories behind their tattoos, part 17

While tattoos don’t need a deeper meaning, all are significant. Photo credit: Amy Pate Sometimes, when you decide you want a tattoo, there are months and months of planning, brainstorming and designing. They have some sort of significant meaning behind them. Other times, it’s a split-second decision.  If you are lucky, that decision is one…

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Markings, Meanings, Everything in Between: Students tell the stories of their tattoos, part 15

Grandfather’s words turn to ink [tattoo].  CONTRIBUTED BY Abbey Hagerstrom I’ve never thought about getting a tattoo before; it just doesn’t interest me to have permanent ink on my body. However, I would absolutely get one if it had a good meaning behind it, probably something to do with my family or friends. That’s what…

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