Where do you hang your college diplomas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don't work for you. My boss knows how to spell.

[Anonymous]

Mine is in box in a cedar chest in a closet.

I only have a BA.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I don't display my diplomas, but I put myself through college. I worked nights at a grocery store--on friday nights when my classmates with financial aid were at parties, I was ringing up food and stocking shelves. My father is a doctor, and my mom only graduated from high school and had "some buisness school". Just because parents are highly educated (in the case of my father) doesn't mean they give their children a "privileged life" and put their own kids through school.

[Anonymous]

No one has yet, on any thread I have ever read, made a decent argument IMO for not hanging your diplomas. Ours are all in our office, and yup, I am proud when I look at them. I am the first in my family to graduate, fwiw.

It's funny that so many people I know will hang visible reminders of their faith, e.g., a cross, but somehow still think hanging a college diploma is more tacky and more private. Huh?

[Anonymous]

I recently heard it is good Feng Shui to hang them up on display--it will bring supposed luck for good careers and jobs...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Are you a foreign?

[Anonymous]

My mom has hung up our undergrad diplomas in her house. I think she hung up my brother's grad degree but I have no idea. I'm not sure where my grad diploma is - storage somewhere. It's not that I'm not proud of my degrees, it's just, I'm proud of the degree not the diploma. It's just paper, and not even all that useful considering if someone needed to verify it they would send for transcripts, not a diploma. Much like my marriage license. That's not hung up either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one has yet, on any thread I have ever read, made a decent argument IMO for not hanging your diplomas. Ours are all in our office, and yup, I am proud when I look at them. I am the first in my family to graduate, fwiw.

It's funny that so many people I know will hang visible reminders of their faith, e.g., a cross, but somehow still think hanging a college diploma is more tacky and more private. Huh?

I'd rather see great framed photos of places we've visited around the world or beautiful sunsets or anything else of great interest or actual artwork.
Do you display your wedding photos all over your family room walls? I don't think the diplomas (or wedding pics) are tacky, I just think that in time and in life, other things/people/events become more important. Really, 10 years later, you are what you are and I hope I'm not judged one way or the other based on whether I went to Harvard or Robert Morris.
(But when I'm seeing a medical doctor, I like to see their diplomas on the wall.)

[Anonymous]

My husband works at a place where it is the norm to hang them in one's office, so that's where his is.

Mine are still unframed. I keep thinking that I'll have them framed and hang them in my study at home, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I have a big backlog of things that need framing, and the diplomas aren't as high priority as some things. I'll get to it someday.

[Anonymous]

Mine are unframed and in a stack of papers somewhere. I have a PhD.

[Anonymous]

Mine are unframed and probably in the file cabinet although they could be in a box, I'm not sure. I have an BA and an MBA from a top 3 business school. We economists don't tend to hang our diplomas up.

Doctors hang their up, though, and I can sort of see why - you want to know your doctor is credentialed from some school. Even if it's not the best medical school, at least you know she's not one of these charlatans.

[Anonymous]

Mine are in storage boxes. Never thought about framing and hanging them. I'm in a profession where everybody either has a PhD or is earning a PhD, and most people are interested enough to do the research to find out from which university you earned not only your PhD but undergrad and master's degrees. That said, I don't share my colleagues' interest and have no idea where most of them earned their degrees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one has yet, on any thread I have ever read, made a decent argument IMO for not hanging your diplomas. Ours are all in our office, and yup, I am proud when I look at them. I am the first in my family to graduate, fwiw.

It's funny that so many people I know will hang visible reminders of their faith, e.g., a cross, but somehow still think hanging a college diploma is more tacky and more private. Huh?

I don't like the way they look on the wall in a home. There are certain kinds of art and knick-knacks I don't like, either. That's enough of an "argument" for me.

Taste is a very personal thing.

[Anonymous]

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

Why?

[Anonymous]

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

Why?

Maybe they think they are OM and that person is NM?