Wearing a class ring

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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...

Dat Jostens advertising works wonders. Hey college grad you prolly in debt but how bout you buy a $1k ring which you will never wear. Or shame wear all the time to remind you how you blew a grand. Oh yeah it has almost no resale value since it is sized and college specific.
 
As a not-US person, this is crazy and new to me.
My class made a nice tshirt and a yearbook at the end. How do you have so much money at that point in life?
 
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...
But does it run Crysis?
 
Wait wait wait.. Does the college get the/any of the money you pay for the ring or..? And if they do, what exactly do they do with all those $$$? I mean surely they have to explain they use them to do x, y, or z that will benefit the students, right? Right??
 
No, we just drink, maybe watch a game.

You whoop and talk about how you're the greatest team of all time despite finishing second in your own division.

Doesn't matter, beat bama, won Heisman, etc etc

I hear from my butthurt teasip coworkers after every Aggie loss. Funny how I don't even follow their program (what's to follow these days, am i right?)
 
Wait wait wait.. Does the college get the/any of the money you pay for the ring or..? And if they do, what exactly do they do with all those $$$? I mean surely they have to explain they use them to do x, y, or z that will benefit the students, right? Right??

I don't think the college gets the ring sale revenue, the jewelry company does, although they may pay the school a licensing fee.

The school doesnt have to explain anything since you are not required to buy a ring, except for Texas A&M, alma mater of Nobel laureate and certified genius Rick Perry, where you apparently kind of are or you're not in the cool kids club.
 
Wow these Aggie people are weird, it almost seems really forced to try and belong.

Anyway I'm from England so don't have a class ring, I do have a crown from nursery though
 
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...

They're dorky IMO but to each their own. If you want to wear some jewelry, might as well invest in something that actually looks nice and has value as a commodity.
 
Class rings? Fuck no. Not a huge fan of rings in general, but class rings look gaudy and huge.

Had the option to buy one in high school. So glad I didn't. Knew a bunch of people who did and they wore them for about a month. Recently graduated college too and I'd assume everyone learned their lesson, because I haven't seen a single class ring.

Granted, I went to school in Nebraska. Maybe if you went to Harvard or something? I don't know.
 
Are these A&M people allowed to marry outside the cult, or is that frowned upon? I've got to admit, I did not expect to lean about these people from a class ring thread. Are there other schools that have crazy cults too? I know Yale has the Skull and Bones, but not everyone is allowed to join that.
 
A&M is full of tools. Fuck aggies.

:jnc


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How did this even turn into an Aggie thread? The OP went to Tech...

OP from Tech makes thread, thread turns into Aggie hate... well played OP!

I'm not complaining. Keep the aggie hate going

For whatever reason, I thought these just existed in film parodies and comedies. I can't imagine dropping that kind of money on a ring for an institution you're gonna forget about a couple of years into your career.

I honesty don't mean disrespect. I just think it's a foolish amount of money to spend given you're not even sure you're gonna wear it.


Edit- woah woah woah. This is for HIGH SCHOOL? Not even college/uni? What in the world....

Not for high school, and I didn't pay for it (well, directly anyways)

lol wtf did you get it covered in diamonds? I spent like $250 something for mine.

There are diamonds in it. Not sure if everyone saw the picture of it yet, but it's pretty much
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I'd feel embarrassed to wear such tacky jewelry, personally. I had the opportunity to buy a class ring recently and declined, even the most minimalist one my school had was too much. Personally, I am not defined by the school I went to.
 

What does that have to do with anything? The thumbs up symbol is the hand signal of the university (Gig 'Em). People taking pictures on Ring Day with their Aggie Rings is an old tradition. That doesn't make us tools. Our school likes its traditions. We are happy to get our rings.

You sound bitter. And unaware of what being a tool means.
 
What does that have to do with anything? The thumbs up symbol is the hand signal of the university (Gig 'Em). People taking pictures on Ring Day with their Aggie Rings is an old tradition. That doesn't make us tools. Our school likes its traditions. We are happy to get our rings.

You sound bitter. And unaware of what being a tool means.

A&M traditions generally seem ridiculous if not insane to outsiders. To some degree, that's intentional: what's the point of having a tradition that doesn't separate you in some way from outside groups? But A&M traditions are unusually ridiculous. The jar, the ball-crushing, the pseudo-military stuff, the ring obsession and flaunting. The inordinate weirdness of the traditions, coupled with the level of pride in them, is what makes A&M fans seem like tools to other fanbases.

I don't think it's bitterness; what is there to be bitter about?
 
You can spend one month in the metal shop and make something personal.

Or you can pay >$1k for a ring with a lion on/in it or whatever your mascot is.

Personally: fuck that. I'm going to make a school Tomahawk. What's better, a ring or a fucking tomahawk? Rings can't do shit but fall down a sink, into a toilet, or have the gem crack/fall out. Tomahawks make trees cry.

Tomahawked.
 
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