Sharepoint non-site setting to always show ribbon?

Our office is slowly shifting sites to 2013 from 2010. It seems they're setting the site settings such that the ribbon is hidden, but expandable, by default. Is there a way I can tell Sharepoint I would like to always see the ribbon? In other words, I'm curious if there is a setting associated to my account that I can toggle such that the ribbon always displays (assuming I'm allowed to see it at all in the given site), despite what the individual site setting is.