Nah, never bothered. I spent the money replacing drumsticks I was breaking and uniforms and stuff. I’m not a jewelry kind of guy, although I have an old sterling silver thumbring (which later became a middlefinger ring) given to me by an ex-girlfriend. I rarely wear that anymore though.
There are, in my opinion, better things to spend one’s money on. Fake IDs, for instance. 
Never got one. Then again, I graduated from a “continuation” high school through their independant study program, and if I had the mney to buy the ring, I probably would have gotten weed with it instead.
I’m surprised I even graduated. Glad those years are over. 
I got one early, sophomore year I think, and wore it daily. The fake they offered for my birthstone was ugly so I wound up choosing some sort of blue gemstone, with a treble clef inscribed on the bottom. It had my full name inside the band, my graduation year and high school initials outside, the school mascot and DECA symbol too.
I liked it because of the personalization, mom and I disagreed about what I should choose but I won so it meant that much more to me.
At nineteen, I was going to community college part time and working a crappy fast food job to help pay for it, I took it off one morning when I was scheduled to make biscuits. (Ever try and get biscuit dough outta all the crevices in a class ring?) That day I accidentally walked away from my purse on campus, remembered 3 minutes later but it had already been picked up and my class ring was never recovered.
I still have my class ring though I don’t wear it any more. We had the option of
a “school colors” gemstone (red or blue) or one’s birthstone. I chose my birthstone (topaz) because it looked good with the ring (which is gold).
It wasn’t cheap either as I seem to recall.
I bought one in high school. Almost never wear it. Fake red gem and all.
My college ring, now, that’s a different story. The MIT “Brass Rat” is redesigned every year, so it’s unique to your class (although they’re all pretty similar). No fake gem. And the damned thing is so heavy and clunky that it can double as a brass knuckle in a pinch.
I regret the money wasted on my high school class ring. However, I wore my college class ring for many years. I really like the ring itself (black onyx on a gold band) and only stopped wearing it because I felt that at a certain age a man should stop wearing his class ring.
I got a big traditional type of ring. Those girly ones didn’t seem like the real thing to me. It was made of real trillium or something. The stone was blue, which was one of my school colors, and it had the school mascot (a panther) on one side. The other side had the masks of comedy and tragedy to represent Drama Club.
I gave it to my ex-husband when we were dating (this was long after high school) as a kind of joke. He still has it for all I know.
I wore my high school ring everyday for about 20 years after I graduated (1982). I only took it off when I was working out at the gym. It is a nice looking ring and I actually have received compliments on it. I stopped wearing mine when my Dad gave me his, which is 30 years older and also a nice looking gold and onyx ring.
I haven’t worn mine ( which is lovely) since graduation, as it seemed kinda juvenile or clinging to the past.
I do have my dad’s class ring from college, which is too big for me to wear, but it is from 1950. So, that is cool.
I bought one (silver with a light blue stone) and wore it during the rest of high school and most/all of college (it’s been more than 20 years, so I’m a bit foggy about it). Still have it somewhere with some other mementos (Girl Scout pins, can’t remember what else). Really liked it at the time. Can’t imagine wearing it now. Never even thought about buying a college one.
GT
I got a high school one which I wore for a couple years, up thru my freshman year of college. I gave it to my girlfriend for a while. She wore it on a chain around her neck but it was so heavy that it gave her a big purple bruise just above her cleavage, so she gave it back, and we broke up pretty soon after. In college, my then-girlfriend (the future Mrs. Cliffy) and I also swapped class rings for a few months.
I’m sure I’ve still got it around somewhere, but I haven’t seen it in years.
I have a great college class ring made of gold which my parents got me for my birthday the summer before senior year. I love it and I ostensibly wear it all the time, except I never do because it doesn’t fit. I’d gained a little weight in the 8 years after college and the ring was too tight to wear. I finally got around to getting it replaced with a bigger size about 18 months ago and wore it for three months, but then I lost a few pounds and now it’s too big. :smack:
–Cliffy
I wanted one with all my heart.
In those days, we couldn’t afford the expense. I was working, but my money was specifically designated for the college fund. My family was not in a position to spend money on stuff like that.
So I burned with envy, but never got a ring.
Still kinda bugs me.
I stopped wearing my High School ring when I graduated.
When I was in the Navy I bought myself a ring with Eagle on one side and the anchor on the other. I wear it when I dress up for a special occasion.
My high school allowed people to buy class rings their junior year, and they were popular among people who were heavy into school activities. (These tended to be the same people who wore high school letter jackets.) Though I would have liked a big honkin’ silver ring, I didn’t see the point in investing hundreds of dollars in something I was only going to wear for about a year.
I got a class ring for college, and, as I don’t change my rings except for special occasions, I wear it most of the time. It’s from UT-Austin, but it’s frequently mistaken for an Aggie ring.
Never got a high school class ring. Didn’t really like the look of them.
My college class ring was a big, big deal. People wear them for life. Nearly everyone got them, there was an entire week of events around “Ring Night.” I loved mine. However, I lost it swimming in a lake, and have never replaced it. I’m kind of whiny about the fact that I lost THE ring, the one my freshman “buddy” designed a scavenger hunt around, the one I put on that night with all my classmates.
Also, the jeweler who made our rings stopped doing it a few years after I graduated, and the account was transferred to jostens or someone similar, and I’ve been afraid they’d be too different.
Shoot, now I’m all depressed.
They still sell, 'em, y’know. 
–Cliffy
I got one, but my parents couldn’t afford the $300+ the gold ones went for back then. I ended up getting one from a local jewelry store (from the same manufacturer) in “Siladium” (a nickel-silver mutation) and it cost about $95. I got the “fire blue spinel” stone instead of my birthstone (peridot). Besides, blue was the main school color.
Since I didn’t order it from the school, I got my ring four months before everybody else. (HA! HA!)
Out of habit, I wore it everyday up til about 4 years ago. I replaced it with a silver skull ring (which always makes people wary of me. :D).
I still have the high school ring, battered stone and all. Most of my friends lost theirs within a year of getting them!
I have one from high school and one from university.
The high school one was, well, patently high school. It has our mascot (a ‘warrior,’ which in Western New York, land of places with Algonquin names, meant an Indian in a headdress) on one side and a dragon (for the Chinese zodiac year I graduated, 2000) on the other, with a red stone and a crest in the middle. The letter on the crest is T, which ostensibly stood for ‘Tonawanda’ but which I coopted (along with my varsity letter) to stand for ‘Tom.’ It’s 10k white gold. Sadly, the ‘wrestling’ side looked like crap, or it would have likely replaced the dragon. I often wore it when I was refereeing, because it looked fairly old-school when you didn’t see the sides, and so it helped get me over as a little older than I was.
My university ring was also white gold, but had a rectangular signet top with the university’s seal. On one side it has the letters ‘BA,’ and on the other, ‘04.’ It looks significantly more dignified, and I wear it regularly to dress up outfits. It’s replaced the high school ring when refereeing as well.
I fully intend to buy a law school ring, most likely in yellow gold for versatility.
I bought one, but waited until my junior year. Too many friends got them sophomore year and then dropped out of whatever activit was on the ring!
I got the fake white gold with fake emerald stone, and it was about $125. On one side is our School Mascot - the Giant. The other side has the comedy/drama masks for theater (all four years of high school). My full name (First Middle Last) is engraved inside. It was an exact fit! I don’t even know where it is anymore, but I did wear it in high school.
I got a high school ring during my junior year. I don’t remember being offered many choices, they all were the same style with the same fake red stone. But I wore it all the time, until sophomore year of college: my boyfriend was wearing it on a thin chain around his neck, and the chain broke while we were in the King of Prussia mall one day and the ring was never found. He felt bad about losing it, but I got my college ring a year or two later so it didn’t really matter.
I wore my college ring forever: I got it in '92, and only stopped wearing it a few months ago. I went through a phase of moving the Claddagh that I always wear from hand to hand and finger to finger, but now that I’ve settled on the middle finger of my right hand I might have to start wearing my college ring again. This time I got to pick the style and the stone, and wound up with this – only with a blue stone (my birthstone is sapphire), and in yellow gold. I’ve always liked it because it doesn’t scream “school ring.”
I’m in grad school now, and have toyed with the idea of getting a ring when I finish my master’s degree. I don’t think I’d want another one with a stone, though: I’m leaning toward a signet, like this (but, again, in yellow gold). I still have a few years left to finish my degree, though, so I’ll see how I feel when all is said and done.