It’s in the fire safe along with passports, birth certs, etc. My high school yearbook is on one of the bookshelves. Why does anybody hang on to that stuff? I have no nostalgia for high school, nor for anybody I went to school with. Yet I’ve been carting it around the world for nearly 50 years for some reason. The yearbook did come in handy for the 40th reunion, as I copied photos out of it for use with name tags.
HS diploma: Used to fix a hole in some plaster, painted over.
Undergrad: Lost in the mail.
Graduate: Has pride of place in its little maroon cardboard tube on top of my dresser.
In a box in a storage unit in TX. I should probably clear that out.
I’ve never needed to show anyone any diploma. I’ve only used transcripts to apply to other schools.
A while back I applied for a job in Germany just for fun. I started a thread about it, because apparently they care about your highschool standardized test scores when applying for a job. Even if you’re 30.
Funny you should ask; just before the holidays, for the first time in my life, I was asked to provide proof of education by an employer. I had to go online and have Pitt send me a copy of my complete transcript because my HS and College diplomas are in one of several attics and I just don’t feel like trying to find any of them.
Now, I have no reason to keep such things, I’m old and have no desire to return to school. That said, I was nearly rejected from college, when a month into starting, The registrar’s office called me and said They had to see proof that I even went to high school, since they had “proof” that I dropped out of …wait for it…
KINDERGARTEN!
I had to show them both my paper diploma, and had my high school send them a transcript.
I recently found it, after not having seen it for more than 50 years. It’s right across the room from me, atop an old keyboard.
You should have commenced to rattle off facts.
“The area of a circle with radius R is given by the formula A=πr²”
I started a new job recently and was asked for my diploma, which I haven’t seen since they handed it to me over 40 years ago. It’s weird how grudgingly my new employer accepted my transcripts; they really seemed to think I should have had the diploma handy.
Funny thing - I helped my sister bring home a new water heater and her HS diploma was in the back of her SUV with a bunch of other junk. Apparently it’s been in there about a a decade, transferred from the trunk of her previous car when she bought this one. It’s likely been in the trunk of every car she’s had since the 80s.
I tried “Did you know Fort DuQuesne was named for the French Royal Governor in the New World and that he died before learning of the tribute to his name” but it didn’t work.
Pretty sure its in my “box of memory crap” at my parents house.
I have my bachelor’s and my master’s with me in my apartment though. Both just sitting on a chair
Couldn’t tell you if my life depended on it.
Interesting. That leads me to wonder.
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Can you retake high school standardized tests later in life? In the US, your high school performance (e.g. GPA, test scores) becomes irrelevant more or less as soon as you get in to college or get your first job. After that, all that really matters is that you graduated from high school. 3.8 HS GPA, a BS, and ten years of work experience is basically the same thing to a hiring manager as a 2.7 HS GPA, a BS, and ten years of work experience. If HS scores continue to be relevant into adulthood, that leads me to believe that there might be a good reason to try to improve them later.
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What do immigrants do? Do Frenchmen with master’s degrees or Finns with doctorates show up in Germany and have to sit German high school exams in order to get hired and/or do a German degree?
Full-size one is around here somewhere; laminated, wallet-size one is in a wallet.
Full size went into the trash years ago. The little wallet sized laminate one is stuck at the bottom of cigar box somewhere in the attic.
Two of you have mentioned “wallet sized” diplomas. That’s interesting, I never heard of such a thing.
I have a plastic-laminated diploma, but only for my doctorate – never got one for high school or my other colleges.
It actually came in useful once. It got me into the reading room at Harvard’s Widener Library (although not into the stacks). I still have it in my wallet, although no one’s wanted to see it for years.
I’ve got one of those, too, and keep it with the diploma. It’s an exact replica of the diploma, little larger than a business card and heavily laminated.
How old are you? I applied for a job when I was in my mid-late 40s, and HR demanded my HS diploma. Didn’t have my BA yet, and here I was, middle-aged, and looking for a state job, after having worked for the state for 10 years at another job, and I had to dig around my childhood home, looking for something that I had never had to produce-ever. Can’t remember if I ever found it, and I found a better job in the meantime, but, it was instructive.
Don’t throw any diplomas away!
But, per the OP: I think my diploma is gone to diploma heaven. This is somewhat ironic, since I still have some of my 1-3rd grade report cards quite handy.
Not positive but I think it is either in our bank box or in a box of keepsakes.