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Do they not do the Iron Ring ceremony?
They might not be American - I don't think anywhere else does the iron ring thing....
The what ?
Yeah, in America, at the end of engineering school, all the students are gathered into the Iron Ring and they fistfight to see who actually gets a degree. Top 30% or so win. That's why I didn't go to engineering school, I didn't have enough time for gainz
That's 100% fake, you're busted
In america it would be a gunfight not a fistfight
North American engineers sometimes wear an Iron Ring, apparently.
Hope they all take it off before doing anything power tool related or near any machinery that could catch it..
Think it's intended more for the design engineer than the construction engineer.
But that said you can get some decent silicone rings that won't de-glove you if they get caught these days.
How can you do that to my, Wikipedia? I never believed in Santa, but I believed in the tragic origin of the ring.
I don't think its common anymore, I didn't even see anything about this in undergrad or grad school.
At my university in the US it was optional and cost money. I was broke so I just didn’t do it. It was also framed as a Canadian thing we were starting to offer