Poll: College class ring?

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: EatSpam
Class rings, both high school and college, are just ways for Jostens to make money off idiots.

It's different from any other nonessential good in what way....?

 

[Phlargo]

always seemed like a huge waste of money to me - I've foregone 3 of them now 🙂

 

[TheChort]

I cant think of a situation where i would ever have wanted to wear one
didn't get the high school one either, and dont regret either decision

 

[EatSpam]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: EatSpam
Class rings, both high school and college, are just ways for Jostens to make money off idiots.

It's different from any other nonessential good in what way....?

Its not. But its amusing when people buy their class rings thinking they're getting something special...

 

[Imaginer]

Most college rings look like glorified HS rings IMO.

 

[Fenixgoon]

waste of $$$$

 

[j00fek]

i didnt get either, i got the 2 papers that said i went. thats enuf thanks

 

[screwd01]

i actually thought i wouldn't want one and my rents just said buy one to make them happy (i'm the first to go to college).
i found a model that was wearable, got an onyx stone and chose white gold. I actually wear it some of the time. But yeah, those huge gold rings are fugly.
link to pic (bad camera phone quality) > http://filebox.vt.edu/users/sman789/heyheyhoehoe/76079972_238461904_0.jpeg

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: EatSpam

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: EatSpam
Class rings, both high school and college, are just ways for Jostens to make money off idiots.

It's different from any other nonessential good in what way....?

Its not. But its amusing when people buy their class rings thinking they're getting something special...

I'm sorta sceptical that you've ever met anyone that wears a college class ring...even the MIT people I know who truly do have special rings never mention anything about them. It's just a piece of jewelry. If you wear it, it's worth the money. If you don't, it's not. There's really nothing more to it than that.

 

[mercanucaribe]

I'd have bought one if it was made of sterling silver and wasn't the size of a dung beetle. THey are freaking HUGE and UGLY and GOLD. http://www.universitycoop.com/webitemimages/108/Images/class_rings.jpg

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: TheChort
I cant think of a situation where i would ever have wanted to wear one
didn't get the high school one either, and dont regret either decision

 

[kranky]

I wear mine in professional settings. I live in the same town where I went to college, so it's often a good icebreaker for conversations because a fair number of people around here went to the same school.

Originally posted by: Pepsei
i do have a wedding band, so that's the most important ring i guess.

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. 😛

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: Atomicus

$10 on something that you might wear for the rest of your working career may be worth more than $10 worth of drinks :roll:

No offense, but none of the people I graduated with wore their Order of the Engineer rings for more than the night of graduation. I only know one person (who I didn't graduate with) who still wears his daily.

I didn't buy my college class ring, just because I never wore my HS one more than a year after I got it. I do have a giant gold ring that we got when we won the state track championship my senior year, I never wear it either.

 

[SaturnX]

I'll be getting an Iron Ring (Engineering) and will be the only ring I get from University, all those class rings are a waste of money.

In working with Engineers on my co-op terms I've seen all of them still wearing their Iron Ring.

--Mark

 

[jemcam]

Yeah, get it and wear it to your first job just to remind everyone what a noob you are to the workforce.