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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumswhere do you keep your college degrees?
I find it funny/not funny that I can't find my B.A. degree nor my M.A. degree. I mean the certificates. One is small and one is big. They are in nice holders.
I had a special place for them. Now I can't find that special place...
DURHAM D
(33,090 posts)walkingman
(11,137 posts)CTyankee
(68,443 posts)Hubby is at a doctor's office. He'll know when he gets back...
OLDMDDEM
(3,274 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,878 posts)I used to have them on a wall above my desk, but they no longer bring me joy.
bamagal62
(4,556 posts)In a box.
Maraya1969
(23,556 posts)gopiscrap
(24,778 posts)for my Doctorate in Sacred Music...that's hanging on the wall
CTyankee
(68,443 posts)P.S. I ask because I know people who were at Yale getting that degree.
gopiscrap
(24,778 posts)Christian University of Southern Indiana. It was part academic and there was a metric for life experience. I have sung in 76 countries 6 continents and all 50 sates. I have directed choirs of 5 different denominations
3catwoman3
(29,768 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(33,269 posts)LogDog75
(1,365 posts)I have Community College and a Community College of the Air Force degrees but where they are I don't know. I haven't looked at them in 30 or more years. I don't have a need to show or display them so they're filed somewhere with a bunch of other stuff in my closet.
CTyankee
(68,443 posts)MIButterfly
(3,133 posts)As soon as I fix up my basement office, it's going to go up on the wall, along with my Paralegal Certificate. My mother had them both framed for me as a gift after I graduated.
I am a thinker, a dreamer and a planner but not much of a doer. I've been planning to fix up my office for years. One of these days......
LogDog75
(1,365 posts)I have a bunch of AF files and documents in file folders and books that I need to go through. My thought is to sort through and put them in similar piles and then scan them. It will be a lot of work but my summer is free and I might do it.
LudwigPastorius
(14,983 posts)a couple years back I got a frame for it and put it on the wall in my office/studio.
zanana1
(6,519 posts)multigraincracker
(38,012 posts)on top of a bookcase. Behind a large photo of my wifes family.
nuxvomica
(14,192 posts)Sometimes they can be found hanging there in a frame.
CTyankee
(68,443 posts)waterwatcher123
(539 posts)mnhtnbb
(33,495 posts)and were destroyed when our house burned down almost 19 years ago.
3catwoman3
(29,768 posts)A diploma I do have displayed is my maternal grandmother's diploma from nursing school. She finished her 3 yr hospital-based program in 1918, having left home at only 16 to go to the program. She was born on July 4th, 1899.
It is huge, 19x15, and I have it in a silver antique looking frame to complement its age. It is in surprisingly pristine condition, considering that it was not preserved in any way.
I treasure this bit of family history.
My mom, the oldest of her 3 daughters, was also a nurse.
10 Turtle Day
(1,302 posts)Id thought about getting them framed and hanging them on my office wall, but like others stated upthread, never got around to it. Now Im retired and dont care plus no more wall space is available without displacing some artwork.
bucolic_frolic
(55,765 posts)but it is econ
genxlib
(6,158 posts)And even more so how much your work place and clientele want to see that.
I for one am in consulting engineering and my degree is definitely tied straight to my professional registration. So I have it hanging on the wall of my office.
That seems to be much more common in work places where clients come to you. It seems to be standard practice for doctors, psychologists, therapists, CPAs etc. It is partly pride but mostly advertisement of credentials
It probably seems a little strange to those who have a somewhat looser connection from degree to job. Or those where clients don't interact directly with your workplace.
mucifer
(25,725 posts)the University of Wisconsin. Apparently they sent out some diplomas with the word Wisconsin spelled wrong.
Luckily, mine was fine. Anyhoo, I think it's in my closet. Never needed it for any job or anything. But, at least I know how to spell Wisconsin.
oberle
(408 posts)are all on my den wall. I keep them out to remind myself that back in the day, I liked to work hard. The BM, MM, DMA are in organ performance, the other MLS is library science.
Redleg
(7,026 posts)I have only been in that office for 12 years so I need more time to unpack.
mwmisses4289
(4,688 posts)Have two Associate Degrees, never could afford to go to get Bachelors and made too much to qualify for any financial aid at the time, but not enough to pay to continue my college ed.
chicoescuela
(3,186 posts)Dont really need to display them anymore
PJMcK
(25,120 posts)Framed and hanging in my studio along with various awards and nominations.
mike_c
(37,130 posts)I framed them right after I got my doctorate, then left them tucked behind my desk at school until I retired and moved. Now they cover some wall space in my home workroom. Still fly specked and stuff from all those years gathering dust bunnies. Someday I'll get around to cleaning them off.