Chose style of MBA ring - now soliciting other opinions

I think I have settled on the Executive II ring from Jostens. Since CSUDH is one of the least known of the Cal State's, I wanted to solicit some opinions for the ring top.

1. CAL STATE
DOMINQUEZ

2. CAL STATE
UNIVERSITY

3. MBA
BUSINESS

(With CSUDH on the engraved on the side of the ring)

 

I would say number 1 because it is the least well known. Should make a nice conversation piece.

 

G not Q

here's a variant on #1:
DOMINGUEZ
HILLS CSU

I think if you use the Dominguez you should use the Hills too; you wouldn't, for example, get a ring saying CAL STATE EAST or CAL STATE BAY--you'd need to use both parts of the name. Same here.

 

I think

CAL STATE
MBA

Would look nice too

 

I've never understood this...

Why do people BUY class rings?

My wife bought her Georgetown J.D. class ring; it never leaves her finger. She SAYS that she can't take it off any more; may be, but she always seems kinda proud of it.

I've never sprung for a class ring, though I was tempted to get CIE's in that sort of pewter imitation silver with the plastic "stone".

Anyway, there's certainly nothing wrong with it but men in general don't wear rings except wedding bands and THEY serve a functional purpose. (If you don't know, I ain't gonna tell ya!)

Naval Academy grads always seem to buy and wear their class rings; hence the none-too-polite appellation, "ring knockers". The Academy ring ALSO serves a (neferious) practical purpose; it identifies officers to each other who (rightly or wrongly) believe that they are members of some sort of elite.

Footnote: Graduates of the various state and U.S. Merchant Marine Academies also wear class rings but ONLY when they are around the Navy!

 

I am glad that you asked “why wear a ring”. Actually, in both my careers in law enforcement and in engineering, I have never worn a ring to work. In my current job, I work around a lot of high powered RF systems (upwards of 10kW) – the ring would make an excellent conductor (not a good thing). In LE, one of my co-workers chased a convict up the first two fences at the county jail – when he got to the top of the third fence with the spreaders (razor wire), the grabbed the scrote – unfortunately he caught his ring on the spreader, fell backwards – and well, you get the picture. He ripped the skin on his ring finger all the way to the bone (nearly all the way off). I think the entire shift removed their rings at that point.

I have never purchased a class ring for any of my degrees or for HS. However, it goes to my real point for getting an MBA. As a manger at my last job, I was in a meeting with executives. Most of these men couldn’t design a rice basket, and yet they were “engineering managers” (lol). Three of them were Stanford, USF, or SCU grads and they were clicking their rings on the desk (I guess to get attention). I jokingly said “I guess they are giving MBA’s away, huh?” Of course, having no sense of humor, the engineering director stated “I doubt you could get one”. (This guy was a golden rich boy from birth – went to the Naval Academy after going to all of the prep schools. The type of guy who has never had to really work to get to where he is at. He relied 100% on connections and had no engineering ability other than a big mouth). I challenged the clown – I told him that any C student from the streets of east Oakland could get one. Well – here I am – 2 years later – and walla. OK – it isn’t from Stanford or SCU, but it is an MBA nevertheless. Because my intention was to show that getting an MBA, or any degree, is more a matter of sticking with it (and not to advance as that was never my intention), I made my point.

I plan on getting the ring – diamonds and all. I also plan to add it to my business card as well (and send it to the director).

Yes, it was all about ego.

 

Re: I've never understood this...

The only jewelry I've worn for the last 16 yrs is my wedding ring, but I must be too naive to know the nefarious purpose. What is it?

My wife wears her wedding band but not the engagement ring (which was a paltry little collection of diamond flecks--it was all I could afford at the time--I was in my last year of undergrad, my only income was a PT job at the college and a PT job at Osco Drug Store). She also wears a class ring from her undergrad, an expensive little old private college--the type I could never afford. But it's reall classy, you'd never know it was a class ring, no ornament at all, small and understated.

 

Cal State - DH is a fine school, it may not be Stanford, but after you finish, you'll never have to blink when looking into the eyes of any MBA grad anywhere (not that you would anyway) and your education will probably be better than Mr. Hot Shot Prep School's--because you had to gut it out while working to get it.

 

Re: Re: I've never understood this...

My first wives engagement and wedding ring cost me all of $600 together. We had just bought our first house together and I had just gotton on the local Sheriff's Office - I think I made all of $840 every two weeks. I wanted to buy a really nice one (about $10K) for my second wife (we both make pretty good money) but she is too Dutch to let me spend that much. I bought her a nice engagement ring but our wedding bands came from Sears - lol

 

The men's wedding band isn't neferious...it keeps the single women at bay. My implication was, if you don't HAVE that problem, I won't enlighten you!

The Academy rings ARE neferious for the reason I mentioned; the "elite" identification.

So, MBAs "ring knock" do they? I noticed the Naval Academy connection.

Actually, little fauss, if you were concerned with Orthodox Jewish practice, you WOULDN'T wear a wedding band, for two reasons, one fairly obvious, the other more subtle...

-jewelry is considered women's apparel and therefore is forbidden to men, and

-you would have received no ring at the wedding ceremony. Observant Jews NEVER have double ring weddings. Know why?

 

believe me, you can get more tail with the ring than without it! (not that I have done these things - I have never cheated and never will).

I still have to look up "neferious" - ya kno those big words confuse me!

 

I don´t even wear a wedding band. I find rings to be pimpy!

(with all due respect to Mr. Engineer)

 

I thought the neferious purpose was opening beer bottles. That's what I used my high-school ring for...

I did get a ring for my undergrad degree, and I never wear it anymore, not because I don't want to, but because I've gotten married since and my fingers are now too fat to fit the ring!

 

Iron Ring / Steel Ring for Engineers

In Canada, it's very traditional for engineers to wear an Iron Ring on the little finger of the right hand (or left-hand, if you are left-handed). There are "iron ring" ceremonies at every Canadian engineering school, and Canadian engineers commonly do wear their rings after graduation. Some American engineers, particularly in states near Canada, are working to establish a comparable Steel Ring tradition in the US.

Engineer's rings are simple, unadorned, and inexpensive, in marked contrast to most class rings.

 

Re: I've never understood this...

Hey, der. I gotta' big pinky ring widt a big di-uh-mund in it. You gotta' prahblem widt dat? Huh?

I know lots of men who wear rings... and none of them are pimps! Er... well... maybe a couple are. [grin]

But seriously... I can think of many, many men who wear rings beyond their wedding bands. Members of fraternal organizations (Masons, Loyal Order of Moose... whatever) routinely wear rings... and nice ones, sometime, too. Pastors wear their seminary rings. Football players wear their superbowl rings.

I wear an almost-massive silver ring with a large, sort of oblong, turquois stone on my right ring finger (and a silver-colored Pulsar watch and band on my left wrist) when dressed casual; and when I'm in a suit and wearing a fairly nice gold Seiko watch on the left wrist, I have a fairly massive, custom-made, solid gold, sandcast ring with a much higher quality, square, turquois stone.

Of course, when I'm wearing my pink feather boa, I move to multiple rings... but that's another story for another day.

I got sucked-in to buying both the high-school and the college class rings: Only wore the former during high school; and never wore the latter that I can remember. I've never really seen much of a point to them... but that's just me.

All that said, as to my suggestion for what should be on Mr. Engineer's ring, I suggest one that's not one of the choices:

• Cal State
  MBA

Seems like the best of all worlds.

 

Nefarious.

 

Edu-bling?

Front:

DOUBT
THIS

With "MBA" on the sides.

 

DesElms

Oh are you the former governor of Minnesota?

 

Re: Iron Ring / Steel Ring for Engineers

I would think that engineers, of all people, would be sensitive to the metalurgical problems that would be the result of this tradition. Years of rust stains on your finger. I'd say, skip past the stainless steel and go straight for the titanium.
Jack

 

Here's a story about Harvard rings. It was amusing to me.
http://www.harvardstudentagencies.com/ths/onering/about.asp
Jack
(who does not own a Harvard ring of any description)