Where do you keep your college degrees?

[bookgirl]

I mean the actual diplomas. Are they in storage? Do you have them framed and hung on the wall? If so, where? At home? At your workplace?

I have my Bachelor's and Master's framed and hung in my living room, and the other day a good friend of mine half-kiddingly told me it's tacky to do so, unless you're a medical doctor or lawyer and they are hung at your practice.

How do you store yours?

I had mine matted and framed and they hang in my bedroom. If I lived alone I'd have them in my home office or den/living room. I have a cubicle at work and the wall space in my corner is taken up with my bulliten boards so no room for them. Above my bed was the default location.

The two that are up are my BS and my MLIS. I actually have my HS one but haven't' got it framed yet.

However mine are framed with a locally famous artist's renderings of the institutions (he did pen and ink drawings of all three so they have the picture and the dipoloma). I didn't pick up the HS drawing until after the first two were done and he no longer has a shop where they frame them together so I've been slow to go find a comparable frame to match.

 

[Julylady]

I have no idea where my BA dipoma is. My Master's diploma is still in the padded envelope in a plastic bin in my basement. I know because I almost threw it away last weekend during a purging moment! (I thought it was just an empty envelope until I saw the return address from the University.)

Honestly, I can't imagine WHY I would ever want to frame and display it. I work for a University though so everyone has advanced degrees so its not a big deal.

 

[runwad]

I dunno, it's kind of sad to see that everyone (including myself) keeps their hard-earned degrees tucked away somewhere, never to be seen again.

This thread has reminded me that my DH's chef's medal was burned in a fire because he had it with his "stuff" out in the shed. If I ever get around to seeing if I can replace it for him, it's going in the home office, framed, too.

These are things we should be proud of!!

You're right! We should be proud of them and display them, heck we paid enough for them to earn that right! But alas ours are in a closet somewhere

 

[AlohaNow]

DH just pulled our framed college degrees out of a box in the basement about two weeks ago because he thinks we need to put more things up on our walls. I’ll put mine in my home office for sure. It is printed in Latin, so that kind of rocks, even though it means I can’t actually read it. Thanks, Jesuits.

 

[LukenDC]

My husband and I have our degrees, both undergraduate and graduate, nicely framed and hanging in our study.

 

[mom2rtk]

DH just pulled our framed college degrees out of a box in the basement about two weeks ago because he thinks we need to put more things up on our walls. I’ll put mine in my home office for sure. It is printed in Latin, so that kind of rocks, even though it means I can’t actually read it. Thanks, Jesuits.

Interesting. My son is about to graduate from a Jesuit University. I'll be curious to see if his is printed in Latin.

 

[sukhakuli]

Mine is in a box in our storage room somewhere. I really don't even know. My husband has his degrees, licenses, board certifications, and awards hanging in his office. At the last hospital he worked he had a communal office, so they were all hanging in our dining room (for lack of a better space) and it seemed kind of pretentious. I was glad when we moved and he took them all to work.

 

[I loveStitchnippyjon]

I don't know! My DMom had all our diplomas framed on her wall, but I honestly don't know where
they ended up. Probably trashed by my DB when he purged the house after DM and DDad passed.....

 

[okeydokey]

My BA and MA both came in nice hardbound folders, as did my husband's degrees, and they are filed like books in the bookshelf in the living room. My High School one, not sure.

One of my husband's degrees (can't remember which one) also came with a laminated card, I guess to use as proof of graduation that was easy to carry, but I haven't seen it in years.

 

[scrapquitler]

I mean the actual diplomas. Are they in storage? Do you have them framed and hung on the wall? If so, where? At home? At your workplace?

I have my Bachelor's and Master's framed and hung in my living room, and the other day a good friend of mine half-kiddingly told me it's tacky to do so, unless you're a medical doctor or lawyer and they are hung at your practice.

How do you store yours?

It's in a box in the basement.

 

[YachtClubWoman]

Both BA and MS are on a bookshelf in the holders provided by the schools.

 

[glaserjm]

Mine are hanging in my office at work. In Missouri (and I think most states) we are required to hang our Bachelor, Juris Doctorate and license to practice in view of our clients. My undergraduate university changed it's name after I graduated, so my Bachelor is for a University which no longer exists...that makes me feel old.

 

[nkereina]

Both my BS and MBA diplomas are in my filing cabinet at home. I think either at your practice or in a dedicated home office would be fine to hang it, but in any other room in the house it doesn't really make sense.

 

[Pembo]

In a box somewhere.

 

[Kitty 34]

Mine is some where in a plastic bin. I do have a laminated wallet size they gave us which I do carry.

 

[Wendy31]

When we first got married, we rented a duplex which had a lower level den which we sort of used as an office - we had bookshelves, a desk w/ a computer, a couch & loveseat, & TV for playing video games. Our diplomas were in these padded case-like folder things. So, I propped them up on one of the bookcases.

2 years later, when we moved into our first house, I packed them away in a box. Our house was 3 bedrooms, &, for a while (until our older DS was born), we used one of the bedrooms as an office. If I remember correctly, I think I may have put the folder things which had our diplomas back on a bookshelf in the office.

In 2001, when older DS was born, the office became his bedroom, so, if the diplomas were ever out (I can't remember), they went back into a box in the garage.

In our current house, we have a large storage closet off our basement playroom. I have all our seasonal décor in the closet, plus a large Rubbermaid box that contains mine & DH's childhood & school stuff (high school & college) - trophies, certificates, & various other trinkets & souvenirs plus our diplomas. The box also has all our wedding keepsakes. So that's where our diplomas currently are! Basically, the box is everything we have left of our lives from the time we were born until we got married.

DH does have his fire operator/first responder license framed & it hangs above his chest of drawers in our bedroom beside a "Daddy" print & a framed picture of the kids w/ the older 2 dressed as firefighters & our younger DS dressed as a Dalmatian - so it's sort of like a very small wall gallery.

If we had a separate office or library type room, I might could see framing & hanging our framed diplomas, but I wouldn't want to hang our diplomas elsewhere in our house.

 

[lovesmurfs]

In a filing cabinet. I keep thinking about having my masters framed along with my professional certification, but it's never made it to the top of my priority list. Should do it.

I had DH's bachelors, masters and doctorate framed for his office. Now that he doesn't have an office, he removed the artwork from our bedroom and replaced with them. Yes, he worked hard for them. No, I don't like them in my bedroom.

 

[bcla]

My dentist from a long while back posted all three of his diplomas. He had a BS in chemistry and a Doctor of Pharmacy (since discontinued)degree from UC Berkeley. He had his DDS from UC San Francisco. They were all in one exam/operating room.

Now the oddest thing was when my wife had me take our kid to a kung fu class. The owner and master instructor had his diploma up on the wall of the studio. It was a BS in computer science. What relevance that had with a martial arts school kind of escaped me, but I suppose he wanted people to see it.

 

[TaylorEar]

My B.A. is framed and hung on the wall right above our downstairs toilet. My M.A. is taped to the bottom corner of the frame.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I have no idea where my BA is located; I've never needed it anyway.