Where do you hang your college diplomas?

[Anonymous]

None of ours are displayed.
Though I do recall going into a house where two Texans (don't know what state school) displayed their oversized diplomas in the entry hallway. Years later, I think to this day: WHY?

[Anonymous]

Mine (B.S. and J.D.) along with my siblings' are framed and hang in my dad's office. He paid for them, afterall.

[Anonymous]

Ours are huge and beautifully written in Latin so they are really cool looking. We both received school frames (mats in deep red mat with the school seal) as graduation gifts so they hang side by side in our den.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure I misplaced mine. BS and MS.

[Anonymous]

You know you've lived a privileged life when you don't display your hard earned college degree prominently. I cannot imagine people from very poor backgrounds where they are the first to go to college and one of few to graduate from high school would treat it so.

[Anonymous]

my MD and undergrad diplomas are on display in my childhood bedroom in my parents house.

mu husband and i met in college and always planned on one day having a home office and putting our combined degrees in there...

[Anonymous]

I was at a law firm recently where the attorney actually had a George Mason law school diploma hanging in her office. Pretty embarrassing ....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know you've lived a privileged life when you don't display your hard earned college degree prominently. I cannot imagine people from very poor backgrounds where they are the first to go to college and one of few to graduate from high school would treat it so.

Thank you for saying this, pp. Took the words right out of my mouth.

Ours are framed and hanging in our home office. Both DH and I put ourselves through college (DH was first in his family to get past 3rd grade.) It was hard and expensive and a major accomplishment for us both. Plus, it helps show that college is attainable to the next generation (nephews, etc.) In our family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know you've lived a privileged life when you don't display your hard earned college degree prominently. I cannot imagine people from very poor backgrounds where they are the first to go to college and one of few to graduate from high school would treat it so.

I'm the first woman in my family to graduate college (BA and MA) and I worked my butt off to get through college (parents didn't have a college fund girls) but I don't display it. I'm glad to have it, but don't display it. I honestly can't think of a place to put it that would be tactful or appropriate, actually.

[Anonymous]

Re: You would hang it if you came from a less privileged background:

My law school stuff is framed and hanging around somewhere in the laundry room along with all the other stuff that ends up piled up in our basement. DH's is the same. He was not the first in his family to go to college or grad school (not by a long shot - there are more J.D.s, M.D.s and Ph.Ds in that family than you can shake a stick at). I am the first in my family to go to graduate school and paid my own way, and my father went to college at night while working full-time during the day, so it really is tremendous generational progress.

Here is the difference between DH and me: I paid to frame mine. His mother paid to frame his. Guess what? Both still in the basement. At this point, even if I did have the kind of home office in which I could hang that sort of thing, I wouldn't. The culture at my firm is such that no one hangs diplomas or any other professional credentials. I prefer art work and pictures of the kids in my office myself.

[Anonymous]

I don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know you've lived a privileged life when you don't display your hard earned college degree prominently. I cannot imagine people from very poor backgrounds where they are the first to go to college and one of few to graduate from high school would treat it so.

Wrong, no privileged life here. DH and I met in college, both from lower income families, both the first to go to college and law school, both with school loans to the hilt. We don't display our diplomas. But I do remember our private celebrations the day we paid off our school loans, the day we bought our first home, and the day our bank account topped $1M. We prefer to keep our accomplishments private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine are probably still on the impossible-to-reach top shelf of our walk-in closet in a house we moved out of 5 years ago.

know that feeling

[Anonymous]

I don't. It is super-tacky to do so. I don't hate the idea of the father hanging all of his kids' diplomas in his home office though.

[Anonymous]

PP, cut the BS. And don't pretend to know who you are talking to about priveledged. You don't. You probably work for me. Not for long.