Where is your college diploma?/Where's the oddest place you've seen one?

I have a miniature, laminated copy of my Ph.D. diploma that I carry in my wallet.

It actually has come in useful – in order to use Harvard’s Widener Library, you have to show that you’re a legit scholar, and one proof they accept is a diploma. It beats carrying around my big one.

My BA degree is in a big fancy frame that I bought from the college, but it’s currently leaning against a wall in my computer room/den. I want to get a smaller frame for it, but I keep forgetting to take it out of the big frame and measure it. Typically, though, it hangs on a wall or sits on a bookshelf at work: not because I need for people to know that I went to college, because that’s assumed, but because it’s an age reference. I look 10+ years younger than I am, and it’s a nicely subtle way for some people to discover that I’m not a “kid.” When I get my MA this spring (og willing) it will definitely go on my wall at work, because I’ll be quite proud of it. But I’ll keep the BA around, too, for the age thing (lest anyone think I went to grad school right after college ;)). I’m hoping to find simple, matching frames for them.

Yes, I’m a little defensive about my age. But if you were a woman in the IT field who looked like she just graduated from college despite being 36 years old, you would be, too. :smiley:

Mine’s hung on the refrigerator, where all good kids’ schoolwork goes!

My college diploma is right here with me.

Prior to yesterday morning it was in the window seat in my bedroom where it had been since my parents moved out of their house into their condo a couple of years ago. My Mom must have gotten it framed, I never would have.

I actually needed to bring it to work today, the group I work for needs to get a particular certification by the state and they want actual copies of all of our diplomas!

It’s in my closet in a box with other “important” papers. Even so, somehow, entropy is getting to it. I swear that thing is absorbing coffee stains from across the room, even inside a closed container.

I have no idea where any of mine are. I imagine it could be in one of our storage lockers or in the attic.

But the strangest place I came across one was I was helping a guy clean out an artist’s studio after she had died. The artist had been there for 42 years and in a lot of ways it was like traveling through Disneyland with all the stuff she used for images and atmosphere. But when we moved out her potters wheel, we found her Masters in what apparently was once a leather cover, being used to level the wheel caked in mud. I figured she had graduated from high school, imagined she had gone to college, but had never thought she had gotten a Masters. I think it was in art education.

Squeeeeeeeeel!

My degrees along with my wifes are now framed in a pile in the den. Before that mine were in the cover that they gave it to me stuck in the bookshelf next to a home repair book. My certificate showing I am a member of the bar was in the tube they mailed it to me in in the umbrella stand.

My wife kept hers in the filing cabinet in a folder marked diplomas.

My AA along with my husband’s AA and BA are on the bedroom wall. We’re both high school dropouts, so I guess they are somewhat of a big deal to us. My GED (earned after my AA) stays in the filing cabinet. It’s ugly as hell anyway.

I’m still trying to decide what I will do with my BA when I get it. I am ordering my graduation pack next month so I’ll have to pick my frame/folder. I’m leaning toward the folder at this point.

The Associate in Engineering and BA in Public Administration are both in a couple of storage boxes since I moved 2 years ago. Never displayed them.

Framed sitting on my home office floor. My wife’s accompanies.

My BA is on the wall in my bedroom at my folks’ house. My MED is framed in the classiest cheapo frame Office Depot had and is propped against my cube wall at work. I’m required to display it along with my temporary counseling license.

I think mine is in a folder on the bookshelf in my old bedroom in my parents’ house. No need for it, so far, and I don’t think I’d ever hang it up if I had it with me.

The people I knew in college were what made the experience significant in my life, so I consider my yearbook and 5- and 10-year class books (and 15-year coming soon) to be far more significant keepsakes.

Still at the university. I wasn’t there for my convocation so I couldn’t pick it up. By the time I pay the postage to get it mailed out to me it won’t be worth the paper its printed on :slight_smile: ha

Stolen when my house was robbed whilst I was deployed in the Gulf War. I hope the guy that stole it got shanked in prison.

I think mine is in a box in the basement somewhere. Maybe. I dunno. I do know it’s still in the leatheroid folder thingie that was mailed to me. I didn’t walk, since Purdue didn’t do December graduations and I wasn’t going back the next June just for a ceremony.

I once thought of doing a massive collage with all of my assorted certificates and diplomas, including my 3rd grade penmanship certificate and my many and sundry Navy training certificates (I think I got one for ejection seat safety checkout) and the assorted diplomas for the 2 and 3 day training courses I’ve had over my professional career. But I never got around to it. I’m not even sure I know where or if I have most of them. If I do find them, I may just make the collage. And hang it in the basement or garage or something.

My HS diploma, BA in English, and MA in Guidance and Counseling are all framed and hang on a wall in my office.

I’m a Middle School Guidance Counselor.

What is a 5- or 10-year classbook? (serious question, no snark intended). :slight_smile:

In the envelope it came in, in the file cabinet. It isn’t interesting enough to hang on the wall.

Mines framed and on my bedroom wall.

Aside from the extreme big-headedness of it, I don’t put it on my wall at work, because I don’t want people to get the idea that I can Engineer Software (Anymore)