It's finally here.

While most college students spend their all nighters yearning for the day they can walk across the stage with diploma in hand, and toss their cap into the sky, Aggies are working for something different.

For us Aggies, the Aggie Ring is often valued and cherished more than the actual degree it symbolizes.

Only the service academies can relate in their dedication and recognition of the class ring. No matter where you are, whether it be interviewing at a large firm or traveling the world, an Aggie ring serves as a bright, blinking, neon sign that says Howdy, how are you? how can I help you?

I hear Secretary of Defense, Dr. Robert Gates, is back in town this weekend. That combined with the odd placement of Ring Day on a Friday, gives me reason to think that Dr. Gates will be handing out Aggie Rings today. I can only hope..

Now to the fun part of getting one's Aggie Ring...

My roommates and I will be dunking our rings tonight. A buddy of mine set the bar pretty high earlier this semester: 12 seconds (and not a drop of spilled beer)

I'll be going for speed, thus a cheap light beer: probably natty or keystone.

My Goals: sub 20 seconds, no beer on the shirt, to not choke on the ring.

for those of yall not familiar with an Aggie Ring Dunk: