Hanging diplomas

[Anonymous]

One time I saw a George Mason Law School diploma in a friend's home office! Can you imagine? Might as well put University of Phoenix up ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One time I saw a George Mason Law School diploma in a friend's home office! Can you imagine? Might as well put University of Phoenix up ...

lol. you so evil.

[Anonymous]

DH and I went to the same undergrad (met there) and the school means a lot to us. The diplomas are matted and framed very nicely and hang in our home office. I'm sorry if anyone coming to our house finds this "tacky" but it sounds like a personal problem to me.

DH's law school diploma is in his office at work. Almost all of his colleagues have theirs up too.

I thought this was pretty normal. It would never have occurred to me that people would object to this. Why is it wrong to be proud of your accomplishments?

[Anonymous]

Does it matter what industry or type of job the person works in? What about people who display a lot of sports trophies in their homes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:sure its ok to be honest, and its ok to recognize you as a bitch.

I don't think she's a bitch at all. She's just pointing out (like many other PPs) that a lot of people think it's tacky to hang up your diplomas in public areas of your house - unless you're a recent graduate and just got your first apartment or something. I agree with her - does that make me a bitch too?

Just because you disagree doesn't make her a bitch.

Being a bitch makes her a bitch.

Look, I don't get the big deal about whether hanging the diplomas is tacky or not, and if I saw them hanging in someone's house, I would not give it a second thought. I have PLENTY of other things to occupy that space in my mind.

This is 100% correct. Anyone who would think "tacky' about someone displaying something like this has something wrong with them. Sorry, you just do. Nice people would notice and ask them questions about their school, what they studied, etc. And as for the people speaking negatively of schools like Mason, Radford, etc., there are simply no words for those types (I went to neither school). You really are nasty people.

[Anonymous]

I thought Radford was a community college. they give diplomas?

[Anonymous]

I work at home but at the moment my "office" is in a den that is used for other purposes. We haven't renovated the basement yet. So my diplomas remain in a box.

It's mean to knock the local schools, though. People work just as hard to get a Mason degree as a Stanford degree.

Anyway, I think that hanging my Ivy diplomas would be even more tacky because people would assume that I'm one of those school-obsessed alums who never did anything better than get into Harvard and thus can't shut up about it.

I'll put them up when I get my own home office, even though I'm unlikely to meet with clients in there.

[Anonymous]

Wait, are people SERIOUSLY knocking these schools? I thought they were joking.

Look, anyone who makes fun of someone for graduating from George Mason, or Radford, or Montgomery College is a jerk. There are schools out there other than Harvard and Princeton, and plenty of intelligent, interesting, successful people have gone to those schools.

I think anyone who graduates college or grad school should absolutely be proud of that, and to the person who suggested that hanging diplomas in their home shows their kids that they value education, I whole-heartedly agree.

[Anonymous]

Yeah. The ones knocking MC and George Mason among other schools are probably also the ones bitching and crying in other threads about their god awful debt .... People go to non-Ivies for a variety reasons -- could be they couldn't get in, could be they could but didn't want the debt, could be a million other reasons.

I like the idea of hanging diplomas to show kids pride in education, hard work, etc. I have never hung mine but this thread reminds me that I should.

[Anonymous]

tacky in a home office. ok in a real office, ie, place of business. even if you work from home - tacky to hang them up -- makes you seem like you are trying too hard, have osmething to prove, and want everyone to know your credentials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, are people SERIOUSLY knocking these schools? I thought they were joking.

Look, anyone who makes fun of someone for graduating from George Mason, or Radford, or Montgomery College is a jerk. There are schools out there other than Harvard and Princeton, and plenty of intelligent, interesting, successful people have gone to those schools.

I think anyone who graduates college or grad school should absolutely be proud of that, and to the person who suggested that hanging diplomas in their home shows their kids that they value education, I whole-heartedly agree.

Which is why no one should put up their college degrees up in their houses unless they are new grads. Really, do four/six/whatever years of college really mean much when you're 45? It's embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:sure its ok to be honest, and its ok to recognize you as a bitch.

I don't think she's a bitch at all. She's just pointing out (like many other PPs) that a lot of people think it's tacky to hang up your diplomas in public areas of your house - unless you're a recent graduate and just got your first apartment or something. I agree with her - does that make me a bitch too?

Just because you disagree doesn't make her a bitch.

Being a bitch makes her a bitch.

Look, I don't get the big deal about whether hanging the diplomas is tacky or not, and if I saw them hanging in someone's house, I would not give it a second thought. I have PLENTY of other things to occupy that space in my mind.

you might think she is a bitch, but you are certainly way out of her league. She has provided a vaild and intelligent arguement and all you can stammer out in response with your lack of creativity and wit is an explititive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait, are people SERIOUSLY knocking these schools? I thought they were joking.

Look, anyone who makes fun of someone for graduating from George Mason, or Radford, or Montgomery College is a jerk. There are schools out there other than Harvard and Princeton, and plenty of intelligent, interesting, successful people have gone to those schools.

I think anyone who graduates college or grad school should absolutely be proud of that, and to the person who suggested that hanging diplomas in their home shows their kids that they value education, I whole-heartedly agree.

Which is why no one should put up their college degrees up in their houses unless they are new grads. Really, do four/six/whatever years of college really mean much when you're 45? It's embarrassing.

So I shouldn't hang my diploma because it might embarrass you and cause you to be a jerk?

And yes, a degree means something, regardless of how old you are. Heck, to MANY people, a high school diploma means something. All of you 'tacky' posters should step back and realize exactly how many people in this country and this world were not born into the circumstances you were, in which going to college/grad school was NOT a given, was something they had to work hard to earn, and is something that they can be damn proud of.

[Anonymous]

it really isnt tacky. more its just something to put on the walls, especially if your home office is stuck down in the basement like mine ...

so glad I am not married to any of you annoying women. 100% chance that even forming an opinion on this topic would NEVER even occur to my wife.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:sure its ok to be honest, and its ok to recognize you as a bitch.

I don't think she's a bitch at all. She's just pointing out (like many other PPs) that a lot of people think it's tacky to hang up your diplomas in public areas of your house - unless you're a recent graduate and just got your first apartment or something. I agree with her - does that make me a bitch too?

Just because you disagree doesn't make her a bitch.

Being a bitch makes her a bitch.

Look, I don't get the big deal about whether hanging the diplomas is tacky or not, and if I saw them hanging in someone's house, I would not give it a second thought. I have PLENTY of other things to occupy that space in my mind.

you might think she is a bitch, but you are certainly way out of her league. She has provided a vaild and intelligent arguement and all you can stammer out in response with your lack of creativity and wit is an explititive.

Yes, I am way out of her league. And yours, because I can spell expletive.

I'm still waiting to see what the valid, intelligent argument is. Seriously. All I've seen is that it's tacky and people will pass judgment.

Oh, and the bitch called herself a bitch.