Student Hats

When I saw a person with a cap in the grocery store I wondered about it, but then I saw an article* in the paper about more young people earning the hat.  It seems that it is a bit like wearing a mortar board and there are smiling people all over town wearing them.  Some people were just out running errands, but in the evening I saw some people in hats dressed up and at a club.

different colors can be for different types of exams (I think)

 According to Wikipedia there are many traditions about the caps.

TraditionsThere is a long list of traditions with the Danish student cap. They have, of course, been changed and will vary from place to place. Here are a few:

• It is bad luck to try on a student's cap before completion of the last exam.

• It’s tradition to write the grade given in the last exam in the middle of lining of the student's cap.

• Classmates and friends write in the lining.

• The student with the biggest and/or the smallest head has to give beer to the whole class.

• The student cap can be marked with notches, cuts and so on, in connection with the "rules" of the student cap.

We saw this sign in Copenhagen, advertising student prices, but only if you have your hat on.

* If you paste the website address into Google Translate or use Google Chrome, it will translate it for you.  If you do translate the article above, you can decide if you also want to read the article mentioned at the top of the page about masturbation not making you blind and being perfectly healthy.