I’m a really easy going guy and try my best not to let things bother me, but dammit, this is almost rising to the level of getting to me… sorta.
I just graduated (finally) and went and picked up my diploma last night (I skipped the graduation- night school, knew maybe one other person graduating). I opened the diploma… and… grrrrrrrr
They put my shortened first name and last name only. This, despite me filling out the form back in March to have my name printed as I wished (full name: full given first name, middle name, last name).
This really kinda annoys me. I mean, I did the form and everything.
I guess I could call and complain, but then, what’s the point? Why exert the effort for a piece of paper in a nifty case that’ll just get misplaced with my next move. But I feel like some people in this situation would do it anyway.
That sucks. I just got my bachelor’s in Finance from a state university and was singularly unimpressed by the document I received. The diploma document for my associate’s degree from a community college was printed on better paper, presented in a folding case and just looked . . . better.
I mean, I might not be using either right now professionally, but the one I paid less for, on an order of magnitude, looks better!
Happened to me. I filled out my full name on the form, but when I received my actual diploma it only had my first and last name on it. I considered getting another, but I figured it didn’t matter. A diploma is only there as evidence that you completed a course of study…as long as they know it’s yours and it’s real then what the hell, eh?
Wow, I noticed the same thing. I got my Associates at a community school and got a really nice looking diploma. The one in the OP is for my BS from a state school.
Interesting.
Something else interesting: that community school got me into my current field (that I enjoy a lot). The state school has got me nothing but tuition bills.
I remember being furious when, after I’d been at the same school for ten years, my surname was misspelt on my final leaving certificate, handed out at the Valete dinner. I was in the office next morning demanding a correctly spelt version.
What’s your problem with that. My degree also says Bachelor of Arts (with honors in mathematics). At Penn, only engineers (and some chemists) got BSc degrees.
My high school diploma misspelled my name – this despite the fact that I was dating the superintendent of schools’ daughter and later married her. It was no big deal since the name was right on the transcript. I sent it back and the school hand lettered a fresh, and correct, one.
It is nice to have it right even though it is only a memento. I share your angst, Sparky.
My undergraduate school screwed up my diploma too… by failing to record that I had graduated. Graduating had been kind of an ordeal for me in the first place… I had a medical withdrawal for two years and came back to finish, lots of effort and unimaginable relief when I got that diploma. I had already applied for the job and when my prospective employers informed me they couldn’t find proof of my graduation I had to phone up my university right quick and find out what the hell was going on. At my university with 50,000 students this could have taken weeks and cost me the job, but fortunately I had graduated from a smaller, school-within-a-school there and all my registrar stuff was handled through a tiny office run by people who knew me by name. They had it fixed by the end of the day.
But man, that was not a scare I appreciated. It was like those nightmares you have where you forget you didn’t finish school and have to pass a class you haven’t been attending. I think I had about four heart attacks a piece. ‘‘No really… I graduated. I swear!’’
I actually ended up with the wrong diploma for my high school graduation. They did the thing where everyone got fake papers on stage, then had to go into a different room afterward to get the real thing (assuming you didn’t have any unpaid fees, etc.). There was another girl with the same last name and first initial as me, and our diplomas got switched. The funny thing is, I didn’t even notice - the real diplomas were in a nice-looking little fake-leather case with a cover, and I never even opened mine up. The other girl’s mother called the school, freaking out, and the school called us and begged us to go up there as soon as possible because the other girl’s mom was threatening all sorts of stupid stuff (I’m sure she threatened to sue, or something like that). I probably never would have noticed the switch, otherwise.
A lot of schools and departments do stuff like this. My alma mater Revelle College, known for its science and engineering programs only confers BAs to the graduates.
Historic usage of the word “art” included such meanings as building, contriving, and designing, just as “science” was roughly equivalent to “scholarship” or advanced learning in any subject, even literature.
My long belated* high school diploma had a completely wrong last name on it. I needed the diploma to take my exam to get a RN license so you can bet I freaked out when I saw it. I had to get the principal of the high school to certify to the state licensing board that I did indeed have a diploma, even if the one I submitted had the wrong last name. Fortunately, it worked and I was able to get my license.
my high school diploma is dated two months after my college degree. long story.
You’re lucky. When I graduated college, My deploma case was empty, save a note to see the registrar. I went the next day only to find that they had no record of me ever attending primary school. They had my high school trandscript and deploma. What they didn’t have was… well, they had something showing I went to kindergarten for 3 months then was pulled out. They also had the wrong school district. That’s why I olny went to kindergarten for 3 months, the school district I transferred to didn’t offer it.
They did finally straighten it out, but it took a while. In the meantime I missed the first opportunity to take state boards.
