Class Ring

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<p>Gold was only $35/oz in my day. :(</p>

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<p>I can’t imagine wearing mine as a status symbol or to show interviewers where I went to school. I just wear them because I like to wear rings. They really only have meaning to me. DS loves his HS ring and wears it all the time. I’m surprised he hasn’t lost it.</p>

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<p>Sylvan–I didn’t wear my MIT ring as a status symbol. When I lived in Massachusetts, it was a conversation starter. I’d be at the grocery store waiting in line and the person behind me would say “what year were you at MIT?” 10% of the families in my small town had an MIT community member–either a student, faculty member, or employee. (No, I didn’t live in Cambridge.) Once I moved west, I went a year or more without anyone noticing the ring (the MIT brass rat is extremely distinctive) and so I took it off. I do wear it occasionally–like when I go east ;-)</p>

<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_class_ring[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_class_ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;