# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/61 "2008-02-21T23:55:00Z")
Both my AA and BA are in my wife’s hope chest, where we store all nostalgic but otherwise meaningless documents. The official transcripts, however, are kept in our safe deposit box at the bank. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/62 "2008-02-21T23:57:19Z")
Deleting a double post so I don’t look stupid and utterly incompetent. Oops, too late! ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/63 "2008-02-22T17:26:27Z")
My BS is framed in a cheap ass frame and mat, and is hanging on the wall of my office. _pfft._ My Associate’s degree though, the one of which I’m most proud (because of all the growth I did while in the process of earning that degree…really, I became another person entirely through that process) is nicely matted and hanging in my bedroom with other framed measures (like the award letter that came announcing my “Forty Under 40” award, and the letter from the Tulsa County Library System that announced they had selected one of my essays as winner in their writing contest years ago). ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/64 "2008-02-22T17:37:05Z")
i can’t say for sure on either of them. the BS is either in a box with my college yearbooks in the garage, or in a box on my tv/computer/office closet shelf. the high school one is either near that same box on the closet shelf - or it’s currently serving as a bookmark in one of my Doctor Who books. maybe. possibly. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/65 "2008-02-22T17:47:35Z")
I didn’t get mine at graduation since they had to keep it to add cum laude. Since it then get sent to my parents’ over the summer, my father had it framed similarly to how his (from the same school) was done. Since it looks nice, I have it hanging in my living room with other framed sentimental stuff. The grad school one was laser-printed and goofy so it stays in its folder in my box o’ Gwendolen. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/66 "2008-02-22T17:50:22Z")
I don’t know. I’m not sure I even have it any more. Because I’m looking for a reason to slack off I’m tempted to go look for it. (Get thee behind me Satan!) It may not have survived one of my numerous moves. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/67 "2008-02-23T01:05:49Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] 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. [/QUOTE] You went straight from BA to Ph.D.? I know it can be done, but i thought it was quite unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/68 "2008-02-23T01:07:48Z")
Oh, I almost forgot. My BA is up on the wall near my wife’s, but they are in a relatively out of the way location. My MLS is truly out of the way, still in its presentation binder in my nightstand drawer. Why there? Storage is a big issue for us, despite the larger than usual size of our apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/69 "2008-02-23T01:15:29Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] You went straight from BA to Ph.D.? I know it can be done, but i thought it was quite unusual. [/QUOTE] Not around here. _shrugs_ ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/70 "2008-02-23T01:47:32Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] You went straight from BA to Ph.D.? I know it can be done, but i thought it was quite unusual. [/QUOTE] Nowadays it’s the more common way. A lot of schools have done away with MA programs, so instead of a 2 year MA and a 4 year PhD they have a 6 year PhD program. If you want you can ask them for an MA degree after you get your PhD, but at that point it becomes kinda pointless. ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/71 "2008-02-23T02:06:03Z")
It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one around here who has no clue where it is. ---
**Author:** ![Jezka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@Jezka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jezka)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/72 "2008-02-23T02:48:43Z")
My degree is sitting on top of my bookshelf in my bedroom. I haven’t bothered to get it framed so it’s just in the folder that it came in. I’m not sure I’ll ever get around to displaying it in a more conspicuous place. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/73 "2008-03-11T22:29:51Z")
I hope I’m not creating a zombie, but I just found both my high school diploma and my _grade school_ certficate! :eek: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/74 "2008-03-12T15:38:59Z")
Ours (Typo Knig’s and my BS diplomas, and his PhD) have been made into plaques and are on the wall in the small office at home. Mainly because otherwise we’d lose 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/75 "2008-03-12T15:53:35Z")
One of my friends has his diplomas on display in his camp’s outhouse. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/76 "2008-03-12T16:09:15Z")
Mine’s in a ring binder with my other documents. Would be no use hanging it on a wall somewhere - giving my work I’m _expected_ to be an electrical engineering graduate. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/77 "2008-03-12T17:30:24Z")
Both are kept in the thick cardboard-y envelopes I got the first one in. That first one is a DIN A-2 (the school figures that serves as copy protection), the second one is normal sized. I don’t have an office that clients or coworkers will see, so most of the times they get taken out is to be photocopied for a potential employer or school (continuing education) that insists in a notarized copy. **Spectre of Pithecantropus** (I hope I got that spelled right), in Spain there is only one Masters which is government-recognized (in Industrial Safety). My getting an MS was kind of a fluke, I was going for a PhD and all my classmates who went to grad school went for PhDs. Those who got MS in IS or MBAs, got them after and completely unrelated to the PhD. It’s one of the things that’s complicating getting “homogeneous” degrees all over the EU. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236/78 "2008-03-12T18:29:20Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] **Spectre of Pithecantropus** (I hope I got that spelled right) [/QUOTE] You have a postgraduate degree but can’t copy-and-paste? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-college-diploma-wheres-the-oddest-place-youve-seen-one/438236.md?page=3)