Wearing a class ring

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My father's university in Venezuela had some classy minimalists ones, they still use the same design nowadays.

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The wife and I wear our rings on the daily. The one nice part about Aggie rings is that they are quite understated compared to many class rings...no colored stones, no flashy contrasts, nothing that can be read from a distance, just a nice solid gold piece of jewelry.

We both had ours stolen out of our old apartment, and replacing them 4 years after they were first bought cost about 40% more due to the gold prices. I believe mine was about $1400 to replace, and it had originally cost around $950.

If you live in Texas, though, there's a certain value to wearing it, especially in the work place. Aggies are very good to other Aggies. It's a real band of brothers, and wearing the ring helps you pick your fellow men out from the crowd at a glance.

And of course, every Aggie has this picture:

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Menelaus said:
If you live in Texas, though, there's a certain value to wearing it, especially in the work place. Aggies are very good to other Aggies. It's a real band of brothers, and wearing the ring helps you pick your fellow men out from the crowd at a glance.
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Menelaus said:
The wife and I wear our rings on the daily. The one nice part about Aggie rings is that they are quite understated compared to many class rings...no colored stones, no flashy contrasts, nothing that can be read from a distance, just a nice solid gold piece of jewelry.

We both had ours stolen out of our old apartment, and replacing them 4 years after they were first bought cost about 40% more due to the gold prices. I believe mine was about $1400 to replace, and it had originally cost around $950.

If you live in Texas, though, there's a certain value to wearing it, especially in the work place. Aggies are very good to other Aggies. It's a real band of brothers, and wearing the ring helps you pick your fellow men out from the crowd at a glance.

And of course, every Aggie has this picture:

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In the weird cult sort of way you aggies are.
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Zoe said:
Please don't group A&M with the rest of us!
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All of my friends from Texas are strange as fuck, but man I had no idea about this whole A&M thing. This thread is an eye opener.
 
Lots of the managers in my office wear class rings. I see a lot of older men in general with class rings on.
 
$1500 is a downpayment on a new Saturn. Personally speaking, I think there are some momentos that should stay in the box - class rings among them.
 
My eventual wedding ring, and my tungsten carbide on my right ring finger are all I ever plan to wear. I remembered all my classmates gushing over their tacky pieces of garbage. A girl I dated a couple winters ago, at the age of 25, still wore hers. I thought a little less of her for that.
 
bucknuticus said:
Dont look into the A&M bonfire thing. Shit get super weird, that school freaks me the fuck out.
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Man, just read the wiki for it. Sounds like something a frat would do, not an actual university.
 
Menelaus said:
College costs upwards of $100,000 now. $1500 is a drop in the bucket (and often, the parents are the ones buying it).
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I don't know man, if I was paying 100k for school it would've made me less likely to pay 1500$ for an official sign that I graduated.
For that money, you'd think that would be included, or that at least you'd think that they wouldn't try so hard to make extra money out of their students.

They don't charge you for your actual diploma, right?

Edit: making it something not everyone can afford is extra problematic in my book, everyone graduated, but just the affluent students will get the benefits of the "secret handshake".
 
Zoramon089 said:
Each ring has carved into it like 12 different secrets. They give you a booklet listing all of the puns and secrets and visual jokes on it. So, it's specialized and the design is unique for each year
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I never wear my brass rat, but I'm glad I bought it. I wore it during senior year a bit and a couple of times after college, but the only thing I wear now is my wedding ring. Still, I don't regret purchasing it. It's a cool memento and I like that it's so unique from year to year.
 
Chichikov said:
I don't know man, if I was paying 100k for school it would've made me less likely to pay 1500$ for an official sign that I graduated.
For that money, you'd think that would be included, or that at least you'd think that they wouldn't try so hard to make extra money out of their students.

They don't charge you for your actual diploma, right?
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I think there actually was a diploma fee! Plus the fact it cost like $300 to get it framed nicely.
 
Menelaus said:
This is so naive it's cute. Have fun in life without your college degree.
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Are you talking the actual education or the physical diploma? Cause I was so lazy I didn't get my physical diploma sent to me until about 6 years after I graduated. And that was because they contacted me lol.
 
youngplaya21 said:
How does GAF feel about wearing a class ring (specifically from a college) around in public? I recently received my ring, but I honestly don't know how to feel about it. I never wear jewelry and I feel like a douche when I wear it, but I spent well over $1500 for it and I don't want to just have it sit in a case...
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No.
 
The Lamp said:
Hahaha yeah we get that joke a lot. I even called it that as a freshman. The Spirit of Aggieland is often described as "From the outside looking in, you can't understand it. And from the inside looking out, you can't explain it." Sounds pretty cultish huh? lol

On the brightside we're a great school with prestige so at least the pride and weirdness isn't for nothing.
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I mean... it's all relative, right?

The people from the top universities who don't even have something like this probably think it's downright silly.
 
If you have to contemplate the douchy-ness of wearing the ring, well...you probably shouldn't wear it. It always baffled me when the ring reps would come around school and people were so excited to get their class rings. After a few years out of college nobody really cares where you went to school and you probably won't even want to wear your ring. Sell it for scrap!
 
youngplaya21 said:
Sweet. I'm going to look into buying an iron ring then. Just wanted to make sure it was semi-normal to do in the states
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It's a bit different in the States. It's a smooth metal band, whereas the Canadian one is faceted.

In Canada, you get your ring at The Ritual Calling of an Engineer, which is a ceremony that can only be attended by graduating engineers or engineers that have already attended it before. I'm not sure if there's a similar ceremony in the States or if getting your ring is more of an informal process.
 
Wow, that's a pretty major expense for graduating. Here in the UK people usually come away with a certificate and usually pay like £30 to rent the graduation gown & hat. You might find some souvenirs available but nothing on the scale of a $1500 piece of jewellery. Judging by the responses though this doesn't seem to be a widespread thing. But how on earth can such an expensive tradition keep going?

EDIT: I managed to find a pair of champagne glasses for £50 as the most expensive thing my university sells for graduation.
 
TheExodu5 said:
It's a bit different in the States. It's a smooth metal band, whereas the Canadian one is faceted.

In Canada, you get your ring at The Ritual Calling of an Engineer, which is a ceremony that can only be attended by graduating engineers or engineers that have already attended it before. I'm not sure if there's a similar ceremony in the States or if getting your ring is more of an informal process.
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