# Where is your college diploma?/Where's the oddest place you've seen one? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 19, 2008, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236 "2008-02-19T09:29:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/1 "2008-02-19T09:29:32Z")
Is it hung up at work someplace? In a box? Mine’s lying on the top shelf of my bookshelf at my parents’ house, but that’s only because it just recently arrived in the mail and I haven’t figured out what to do with it yet. I’ve got the folder I got during the ceremony at my apartment. Maybe it’ll end up in there. My associate’s degree is framed and on a shelf at their house as well. Not sure when they put it in the frame, but there it is. Bonus question: Where’s the oddest place you’ve seen one hung? I frequent a coffee shop whose proprietors (a husband and wife) have them hung on the wall. They recently started the place, the diplomas are in business administration (IIRC), and it’s a college town. Not really odd, I guess, but I’d never seen one in a coffee shop before. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/2 "2008-02-19T09:32:18Z")
In a folder , with all other certificates from my junior school days onwards and my passport … ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/3 "2008-02-19T13:08:10Z")
I’ve got all my diplomas framed on the wall in my den. Every now and them I look at them, and they seem an inadequate sort of receipt for the efforts I went through. I have a friend who used to keep his diploma framed on the wall in his bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/4 "2008-02-19T13:16:40Z")
I’m not sure where they are. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/5 "2008-02-19T13:17:32Z")
Not sure. Mom’s baement might be a good guess. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/6 "2008-02-19T13:48:23Z")
I’m pretty sure mine are on the bookshelf in my bedroom gathering dust. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/7 "2008-02-19T14:05:09Z")
Mine’s framed and sitting in a closet right now. Never put it back up after I moved, since I couldn’t think of a good spot for it. Maybe when I move again next month, some wall space in the new place will inspire me. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/8 "2008-02-19T14:12:46Z")
A buddy of mine put it in his bathroom, so he can admire it while he’s peeing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/9 "2008-02-19T14:18:42Z")
Mine is in its commemorative folder, in the envelope they gave it to me in, on my bookshelf. Actually, there are two, since the first one had a pretty horrendous misspelling of my name. Think **Marnago** instead of **Margo**. My sister **Lois** has hers in a frame I gave her in her garage over her homemade beer-pong table. She says that it’s because beer-pong was the only thing she really learned in her undergrad years. I feel sorry for her for that, but I still think it’s funny because it it the most pretentious diploma I’ve ever seen- the college’s name is in fakey Latin and everything. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/10 "2008-02-19T14:23:08Z")
I actually don’t know where mine is. The only degree I display is my PhD, which is the only degree I am proud of having attained. It’s on the wall of my office. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/11 "2008-02-19T14:27:40Z")
I think they’re both (BA and PhD) in their folders on a shelf of oversized books in the guest room – but I could be wrong about that. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/12 "2008-02-19T14:47:41Z")
They’re on the walls of my home office next to my wife’s. While I work in a heavily degreed industry, I really don’t see anyone’s diploma on workplace walls very often. I think they’re quickly trumped by more pressing demands for the space; maps and diagrams, professional achievements, family pics, etc. Those I do see displayed with regularity are for careers in the medical community, CPAs, Financial advisors, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/13 "2008-02-19T14:47:53Z")
My BA diploma is gone… and good riddance. For me it is a reminder of an incredibly bad college experience at Western Michigan University and how they screwed me over. If I never see it again it will be too soon. Who, me? Bitter? No, not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/14 "2008-02-19T15:09:34Z")
I had a bunch of diplomas and such - BA, JD, various martial arts certs - in a large atlas. Just about the only place I could think of keeping them flat and relatively undamaged. Maybe 10 years ago I got a call out of the blue from some lady. Apparently she picked up an atlas from a library’s used book sale, and it had all these diplomas and stuff in it. Apparently we had donated the book to a booksale without realizing what was in it. So I guess that suggests how much they meant to me! At the time, I kinda planned on hooking up with her to get them back, but never got around to it. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/15 "2008-02-19T15:11:52Z")
The actual diploma is in the plain blue folder they gave it to me in, on my childhood desk in my parents’ house, where I put it down the day after I got it more than 5 years ago. The color copy that I made of it and gave to the shiny-wood-backed-diploma people is very shiny, and on a wood back. I used to have it hanging near my desk at home, but since moving, it’s sitting on a pile of other stuff that isn’t hanging because my desk is in the living room, which seems an awkward place for a diploma. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/16 "2008-02-19T15:15:39Z")
The diploma is in the bathroom. The Teaching Credentials and Certifications are stashed in the safe deposit box. ---
**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/17 "2008-02-19T15:17:56Z")
My BSc is in the nice leather thingamabob on my bookshelf. My MS is at my parent’s house somewhere, because that’s where it was mailed. The oddest place I’ve ever seen a college diploma was whole and in my shredder. It was odd, because I’d forgotten **GingerOfTheNorth** had packed it there. Actually, I’d forgotten about the diplomas (College & HS) altogether, and didn’t need to unpack the shredder. I only went into that box because I vaguely recalled **GingerOfTheNorth** putting something other than a shredder in the shredder box, and I was looking for something else. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/18 "2008-02-19T15:27:31Z")
I made four color copies of my B.S. degree, laminated them, and used them as placemats on the dining room table for a few years. That was the most it was good for. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/19 "2008-02-19T15:39:55Z")
Mine is in the folder it came in when they sent it to me a few weeks ago. I haven’t decided what to do with it, it represents a victory of sorts for myself (as much as my high school diploma does) but I don’t have a place to hang it up… and hanging it up seems a little pretentious to me. So it’ll probably stay with my other certificates in the folder I have for that purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/20 "2008-02-19T15:46:32Z")
Ummmmmmmm - not sure. Maybe in a folder in the filing cabinet in my Dad’s study at my parents’ house on the other side of the world? Nobody has asked to see it since I got admitted as a solicitor and got a practising certificate as evidence of my qualifications! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236.md?page=2)