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I think you may be missing the point. These rings are given to graduating engineers not as a beautiful object of congratulations for their achievements, but as
by theg5prank 13y ago
I think you may be missing the point. These rings are given to graduating engineers not as a beautiful object of congratulations for their achievements, but as a token designed to remind them of the burden they have taken on.
- adambard 13y ago[This poem](http://www.tricolour.net/som.html http://www.tricolour.net/som.html) is part of the Canadian ceremony (or was at mine, anyhow), and describes the aforementioned burden. It may be because it strokes an engineers' ego a bit, but I enjoy it.
- VLM 13y agoAh so the IT equivalent would be something like a ceremonial pager duty model or something?