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Do you hang your diplomas? At the office? Home?
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Anonymous
Now now, PP didn't say anything like that. The snark is unnecessary. I would tend to agree, outside of a doctor's or lawyer's office, I'd be surprised to see a diploma on the wall. But truthfully, I wouldn't get all worked about it either way. |
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Whenever I see a diploma double/triple matted in a huge frame in the entryway of someone's home or elsewhere conspicuous, it usually makes me think they're either insecure, or first generation college. And it's usually not a particularly spectacular college, in my experience. But whatever works for you.
I don't even have any idea where mine are. My husband (USNA) has his over his desk in his home office. His grad degree is a file folder. Guess that tells you which one is more important to him..... |
Anonymous
Yes, I would certainly have some issues if i couldn't see no diploma or certficate. When I hire lawyers I make sure they have two things: booksmarts, and streetsmarts. I test their street-smarts by posing a series of real-life scenarios - e.g. "Psycho comes at you with a knife - what do you do?? WHAT DO YOU DO??" etc... The booksmarts I glean from sniffing around their offices, looking at their diplomas. If they don't have none, I will test them on their latin or darrein presentment or some such. |
Anonymous
| Mine are all still all rolled up with the ribbon on it. Somedays I feel like I should send them to my parents because they earned them as much as me. |
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I just asked my colleague what she thought. Her response?
"Only people who feel like they have something to prove would hang it here at the office." ? |
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For your office, I think it's a bit much unless you are a dr. and I think you have to hang them or display them? I think the office thing - just thinking about who is in my department (and all have a grad degrees except for the admins), for some they are more proud of their 10 to 20 plus years of work experience that have gotten them here, not their degree though that was a stepping stone. I think the business card has everyone's credentials and that is where they are "displayed" in a way.
For home, obviously that's up to you. I can say that my parents have all my diplomas (undergrad and grad) stored and I actually think hung in their house. Graduations are obviously emotional for a lot of parents. I still remember my mom crying at my 8th grade graduation and I couldn't understand it, and she was explaining that it was a milestone and a sign I was growing up. So to them our degrees have special meaning. But I don't think if it was in someone's home office I would think it is strange, and frankly, most people aren't hanging out in your home office I would think, so it would be more for you. And that's fine! |
Anonymous
I somewhat agree with this. I guess it's fine to hang it up, but is that really what you want to look at in the office all day? I think I'd rather have pictures from a vacation, or fun times with the kids or relaxing nature shots, etc. Really, you already have a job there. It means you're qualified and you have a degree in law/medicine/whatever. You've passed your boards/bar/whatever. Why do you need a diploma? What's the point? Seems to me you're somewhat insecure. |
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"Only people who feel like they have something to prove would hang it here at the office."
Funny. I actually don't hang mine in part because I'm the only one here who didn't go to an Ivy and I don't want to emphasize it, but the fact is that the colleague closest to me in experience can't stop talking about his Ivy degree (a decade later) because he is so insecure. |
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We have our hanging in our home office. Got them all very nicely framed. All very simple, but with some coordinated matting. I have an actual motive behind displaying the diplomas and that is that I want to demonstrate to my children that education is important to our family. The home office isn't a super-public area of my home, so I don't feel like we're bragging, but we're very proud of the achievements and want to share that with our family. Our children's sports trophies and certificates from school also get displayed in the den (not necessarily framed, but on display).
I also had each child's birth announcement framed in a similar look. Just so they could have a "starter piece" up on the wall with us. 
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| Both of mine (BA and MA) are still in the padded envelopes they came in. They are both stuffed on the top shelf of the closet. |
Anonymous
I'm one of the posters who's not keen hanging up diplomas. That's a different way to look at it and I can see your point. However, I'm still not sure I'd buy it. I definitely plan to instill the importance of education in my DS, but I still think it's possible to do this without having to show-off my and DH's diplomas. I guess I see my diploma as just a piece of paper. I am where I am as a result of my work experience, some luck, supportive parents, etc. Most definitely not as a result of just my diploma. If I were to hang up anything, maybe it should be my resume and my parents' pictures? I don't really see how hanging up a diploma is going to emphasize education any more than supporting my child in school. It's almost a form of materialism. "Go to college so you can get a nifty diploma and I'll frame it and hang it up. So you can be just like mommy and daddy with a fancy frame and everything." |
Anonymous
My diplomas (BA and PhD) are somewhere in a box in the basement. But my parents do have a copy of my MIT PhD diploma hanging on the wall in their home office (and they didn't even ask me  )
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Like it or not, I do pass judgment on professionals based upon where they have gone to school. Law degree from Harvard is better than law degree from UDC. Not saying of course, that the Harvard grad is guaranteed to be a better lawyer in my particular case, but it does help to instill a sense of confidence.
My general experience, though, has been that degrees hanging up in professional offices serve most often as springboards for conversation. "Oh, you went to UVA? My daughter is considering UVA for college. What did you think of your time there?" I would think that a degree displayed in one's living room to be kind of weird, but whatever... |
Anonymous
To me, this is odd - you don't have anything to apologize for or hide. What's wrong with the school that you did go to? So what if it's not an Ivy? |
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my DH's is still in the tube (poster roller thing) his University supplied 16 years ago. We moved recently and I found it was rolling around in the back of my car...I just put it into the basement storage with old our old HS yearbooks. My university and graduate diplomas are in the same bin. I never got them framed either. I do have a couple of prestigous career awards from my office in my home office (WAH full-time) but they were framed when I was presented them and the reason is when I packed up my work office to start workign from home they were in those boxes...they aren't hung--just resting on a shelf. But nobody sees them but me because I am the only one that comes up to this 4th floor office.
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