KAYLA DRAKE | Multimedia Producer
Junior Emily Hilbolt is a biochemistry student and based her favorite tattoo on alchemy, the medieval predecessor to chemistry she said. It is a “ouroboros,” a snake eating its tail, forming a circle. The symbol was common in alchemy, either as a snake or dragon, and was adopted from ancient Egyptian drawings.
To Hilbolt, the ouroboros symbolizes life, death and new beginnings.
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