Off topic but here’s a question. How many of you got a class ring? A subcontractor saw my ring today and asked me, “where did you go to school, A&M?” “Hell no! I went to the University of Houston!” Does TAMU have a patent on class rings? Are they the only ones that do that? I get sick and tired of people assuming I’m an Aggie because I have a class ring.
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I have one and wear it daily. I get the A&M question sometimes too.
I did not get one. Often wish I had.
I have a class ring that is white gold with a nice big diamond on it. I am extremely proud of my university and I made sure I didn’t spare any expense. I wear a size 14 ring so this ring is obviously pretty big. The only question I get about my ring is if it is a championship ring of some sorts.
I have never gotten a question about A&M, but if I do I might have to use my ring to backhand them. 
Ricardo!
Evidently UNT has a new official ring and starting a new ring ceremony
I have a class ring and wear it anytime I leave the house. It does not have a stone, just the interlocked UH in gold. I have been asked if I went to aTm, probably because most of theirs that I have seen don’t have stones either. I work for an engineering company and it is common for most guys above, say 35 or 40, to wear their rings and more from aTm seem to. I would say that aTm, UT, and UH are the predominant alumni groups at my company’s Houston office. However, we have alumni from just about everywhere that has an engineering school.
I didnt get one but i always hear about the aggie ring ceremony and the shasta ring box at the zoo but never a UH ceremony. It was a little out of my budget so i never got it. Sometimes wish i had.
I have one and get the aggie question from time to time.
I have a class ring from '77 and often get the aggie question. I just take that opportunity to tell them they may have copied ours.
About being able to afford it, a couple of years after graduation, I took my high school ring and sent it in to Balfour who credited me the gold and reduced the cost significantly. Later, a few years ago, after I had put on a few pounds and the ring was tight and worn down, I sent it back to Balfour and they resized it and replaced with a new ring at another savings. So now I wear a like new ring.
It’s never too late. I wasn’t able to get mine before graduation and it never lessened it for me. I waited until I could get what I wanted and it never brings me anything but pride. It represents all my hard work, sacrifice, and everything the university has given back to me with my career and for my family.
I know it’s a generalization but I’ve always felt like people that went to U of H versus UT and A&M had to work a lot harder for everything they have. And that’s why waiting for your ring is not a bad thing and in fact it personifies what’s special about U of H and the people who go there.
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I wear my ring every day. Wedding Ring on the left hand. Cougar ring on the right hand. UI don’t have a stone so I do get the Aggie question from time to time.
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Never got a UH class ring. It wasn’t important to me at the time (1973).
The A&M class ring is distinctive and every Aggie grad I know wears their ring with great pride.
I have and wear my class ring and get asked if I went to Aggy all the time.
I got a class ring back in the day ('93). My mom used to dabble in jewelry back then so instead of getting the diamond (white) I bought it with the top stone setting empty and put a red ruby in it. Didn’t wear it for years but started again every day since our resurgence in football. Never been asked if it’s Aggie thank goodness.
This is one of my favorite stories. I, like I’m guessing a good portion of the people here, had to work to pay for my education at UH. It took me a long time, working full-time and going part-time, taking whatever hours I could afford, but when I got my degree, I owed not a dime. I wanted a ring, but couldn’t afford one and so just figured I’d get one sometime later on. At Christmas of the same year I graduated, my now-wife, who was also in school and was equally broke, bought me one of the simple alloy-metal class rings, because she knew how important it was to me. It’s my second-most prized possession, after my wedding ring.
She’s asked me many times if I want to replace it with a gold ring, but that little piece of metal reminds me of the sacrifice and hard work it took to get my UH degree. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. She did, however, take a diamond from an old ring she inherited and had it mounted right in the center–a diamond in the rough. Seemed appropriate.
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I’m always taking my wedding ring off and flipping in in the air or spinning it on the table and my wife always gets mad at me. She asks, “Do you do that with your UH ring?” I say, " of course not!"
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It’s never too late. I didn’t get one but then after a couple years I really wanted it. Wear it daily. I did have someone one recognize it as a UH ring before. Never had anyone confuse it with an Aggie ring. Usually I just get asked where I graduated from.
What I don’t get about being asked I’m an aggie grad is that I don’t have a pointy head or beady eyes.
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Thanks for bringing this up. Didn’t get one either, was literally on my last chicken sandwich dollar at the UC graduation day. who do you contact to get one ?