{"id":14214,"date":"2025-10-21T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/14214\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:36:09","slug":"storytelling-though-stickers-visual-self-expression-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/14214\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytelling though stickers: visual self expression on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stickers can be a telling visual representation of the diverse community we have here at St. Edward\u2019s University. If you look around, you\u2019ll notice an abundance of stickers, on laptops, water bottles or cars. After taking a closer look at the story each sticker tells, I learned a little bit more about the students who express themselves through the sticky symbols.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31715 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/p1-Edited-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\"  \/>Mae Hernandez \/ Hilltop Views<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Sendra, a junior majoring in writing, had especially unique and eye-catching stickers on his laptop. As I anticipated, the story behind them was equally as interesting. \u201cMy brother edited my face onto my dad\u2019s head; it\u2019s an inside joke between me and him,\u201d Sendra said. \u201cHe turned it into a fake law firm ad. That picture of me is from when I was 14.\u201d To my surprise, Sendra describes the sticker as \u201ca conversation ender,\u201d as opposed to a conversation starter. His brother is a graphic designer, so he\u2019ll make custom stickers for Tomas to add onto their bit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/p2-Edited-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\"  \/>Mae Hernandez \/ Hilltop Views<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the stickers are mostly my interests over the years, as you can see, it\u2019s a lot of anime and games,\u201d said Emma Orourke, a junior psychology major. \u201cI\u2019ve been collecting them since I got my laptop, four years ago. My favourite ones are the Genshin Impact ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/P3-Edited-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\"  \/>Mae Hernandez \/ Hilltop Views<\/p>\n<p>Amaris Jimenez, a senior performing arts major, is keen to collection. \u201cI just love collecting stickers all around town, and throughout the years. I try to change them out every year,\u201d Jimenez said. Her most sentimental stickers represent her friendship with her roommate. \u201cMy roommate and I would go to Dutch Bros all the time, she has them on her car, and I have always keep one on my iPad.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31734 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/P4-Edited-1-e1761064829545-1200x760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"760\"  \/>Mae Hernandez \/ Hilltop Views<\/p>\n<p>Arlo Gonzales is a sophomore kinesiology major, said his favorite sticker on his laptop isn\u2019t a sticker at all, it\u2019s a stencil of a tattoo design his cousin drew for him. He is repping St. Edward\u2019s Hilltopper pride with the majority of his stickers being from internship fairs. \u201cI want to represent Austin, being a student here,\u201d Gonzales said. His sticker spread represents his interests, his love for track and field, jewelry, Colorado, bbq and music. These stickers tell a story of who he is, and all I had to do to find out was ask about his stickers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stickers can be a telling visual representation of the diverse community we have here at St. Edward\u2019s University.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,11633,277,11634],"class_list":["post-14214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-campus-life","tag-fashion","tag-photo-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}