where do you keep your college degrees?

[CTyankee]

I find it funny/not funny that I can't find my B.A. degree nor my M.A. degree. I mean the certificates. One is small and one is big. They are in nice holders.

I had a special place for them. Now I can't find that special place...

[DURHAM D]

1. Bookshelf

[walkingman]

2. In a drawer somewhere, I had them in my office when I worked but after that just filed away.

[CTyankee]

4. So I looked in my file cabinet. Nope.

Hubby is at a doctor's office. He'll know when he gets back...

[OLDMDDEM]

3. Mine are in a box in storage.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. They're in a box somewhere

I used to have them on a wall above my desk, but they no longer bring me joy.

[bamagal62]

6. In a closet

In a box.

[Maraya1969]

22. Me too.

[gopiscrap]

7. In a drawer except

for my Doctorate in Sacred Music...that's hanging on the wall

[CTyankee]

9. OH! Where did you get that degree? It sounds so wonderful!!!

P.S. I ask because I know people who were at Yale getting that degree.

[gopiscrap]

19. It was conferred from and affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union

Christian University of Southern Indiana. It was part academic and there was a metric for life experience. I have sung in 76 countries 6 continents and all 50 sates. I have directed choirs of 5 different denominations

[3catwoman3]

24. WOW!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. N/A!

[LogDog75]

10. Somewhere in a closet

I have Community College and a Community College of the Air Force degrees but where they are I don't know. I haven't looked at them in 30 or more years. I don't have a need to show or display them so they're filed somewhere with a bunch of other stuff in my closet.

[CTyankee]

11. I looked in my closet. Sad to say, they weren't there...

[MIButterfly]

12. In my spare bedroom

As soon as I fix up my basement office, it's going to go up on the wall, along with my Paralegal Certificate. My mother had them both framed for me as a gift after I graduated.

I am a thinker, a dreamer and a planner but not much of a doer. I've been planning to fix up my office for years. One of these days......

[LogDog75]

13. I'm kind of the same way since I retired

I have a bunch of AF files and documents in file folders and books that I need to go through. My thought is to sort through and put them in similar piles and then scan them. It will be a lot of work but my summer is free and I might do it.

[LudwigPastorius]

14. My bachelor's degree was stuffed in a box in the garage for 36 years, but...

a couple years back I got a frame for it and put it on the wall in my office/studio.

[zanana1]

15. I keep mine in my past.

[perfessor]

55. Yep me too.

Haven’t seen it in decades.

[multigraincracker]

16. Proud of mine, have it standing up

on top of a bookcase. Behind a large photo of my wife’s family.

[nuxvomica]

17. Did you check your office wall?

Sometimes they can be found hanging there in a frame.

[CTyankee]

21. No. Alas. I checked (I never put them on any wall and I am long retired now).

[waterwatcher123]

18. Unfortunately, both my bachelors and masters degree certificates are in a cardboard tube somewhere (closet?).

[mnhtnbb]

20. Mine were framed hanging on the wall of my study

and were destroyed when our house burned down almost 19 years ago.

[3catwoman3]

23. My nursing bachelor's and master's degree diplomas are in a desk drawer.

A diploma I do have displayed is my maternal grandmother's diploma from nursing school. She finished her 3 yr hospital-based program in 1918, having left home at only 16 to go to the program. She was born on July 4th, 1899.

It is huge, 19x15, and I have it in a silver antique looking frame to complement its age. It is in surprisingly pristine condition, considering that it was not preserved in any way.

I treasure this bit of family history.

My mom, the oldest of her 3 daughters, was also a nurse.

[10 Turtle Day]

25. In a drawer in a file cabinet

I’d thought about getting them framed and hanging them on my office wall, but like others stated upthread, never got around to it. Now I’m retired and don’t care plus no more wall space is available without displacing some artwork.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. In the toilet

but it is econ

[genxlib]

27. I think it depends a lot on how connected the degree is to your career

And even more so how much your work place and clientele want to see that.

I for one am in consulting engineering and my degree is definitely tied straight to my professional registration. So I have it hanging on the wall of my office.

That seems to be much more common in work places where clients come to you. It seems to be standard practice for doctors, psychologists, therapists, CPAs etc. It is partly pride but mostly advertisement of credentials

It probably seems a little strange to those who have a somewhat looser connection from degree to job. Or those where clients don't interact directly with your workplace.

[mucifer]

28. Funny story. After I graduated a few months later I got a letter from

the University of Wisconsin. Apparently they sent out some diplomas with the word Wisconsin spelled wrong.

Luckily, mine was fine. Anyhoo, I think it's in my closet. Never needed it for any job or anything. But, at least I know how to spell Wisconsin.

[CTyankee]

40. OMG! How the hell could that happen???

Somebody is in big trouble at the university....

[oberle]

29. My Bachelors, 2 Masters and Doctoral degree certificates

are all on my den wall. I keep them out to remind myself that back in the day, I liked to work hard. The BM, MM, DMA are in organ performance, the other MLS is library science.

[Redleg]

30. Boxed up in my office at the university

I have only been in that office for 12 years so I need more time to unpack.

[mwmisses4289]

31. Somewhere in a closet in the house.

Have two Associate Degrees, never could afford to go to get Bachelors and made too much to qualify for any financial aid at the time, but not enough to pay to continue my college ed.

[chicoescuela]

32. In the garage along with my CPA certificate

Don’t really need to display them anymore

[PJMcK]

33. Bachelor's and Master's in Music

Framed and hanging in my studio along with various awards and nominations.

[mike_c]

34. hanging on the wall in my home office/lab

I framed them right after I got my doctorate, then left them tucked behind my desk at school until I retired and moved. Now they cover some wall space in my home workroom. Still fly specked and stuff from all those years gathering dust bunnies. Someday I'll get around to cleaning them off.

[Ptah]

35. I keep my degrees in the only place they have ever been; In my imagination.

[CTyankee]

36. And they didn't cost you a fortune!

[Ptah]

45. If I had received a student loan in 1970, I would have been able to be free of it by declaring bankruptcy.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

46. ME TOO, Ptah!

Never went to college. I'm an autodidact and have been a voracious reader my entire life.

[Aristus]

37. On the walls of my home library.

At work, I just display my Physician Assistant license.

[Wolf Frankula]

38. In a drawer in a desk

My wife's is there too.

[surrealAmerican]

39. I don't know.

They might not be in the same place. There's the filing cabinet, a box in the basement, one of the closets downstairs, or somewhere else.

[Rebl2]

41. I have

no clue after moving several times. Weirdly, I know where my high school graduation certificate is 🫤.

[CTyankee]

42. I called an office dealing with graduates questions and left a message about getting a copy of my degree.

I guess I'll hear back from them pretty soon. It only costs $25 to get another copy. Problem solved!

[chouchou]

43. A metal box in a second bedroom, with some old pictures and memories.

[ProfessorGAC]

44. 4 Of My 5 Diplomas Were Stolen

Back in around 2002, the site where my office was located needed the offices because, due to the BP Texas City disaster, housing people in trailers in a chemical operating site was now illegal.
Since I was corporate, I got moved to a rental office about 3 miles away until the new office building was completed.
I didn't want to tear down an office, pack everything, unpack & do it again in 4 months.
So, I packed everything, left in my car until I got my office back.
In the 4 months, spring came so I started driving the convertible. My winter car (an old Buick Regal) was parked in front of the house.
When the offices became available again, I was going to drive that car to work & unpack.
The boxes in the back seat were gone. And, they popped the trunk and stole those too
All my textbooks, about a dozen corporate awards & certificates, and the 4 diplomas. (My MBA diploma was never at work.)
So, my BS in Chem, MS in Organic Chem, PhD certificate, & MS in applied mathematics; all gone.
My worst fear is that whoever stole them were disappointed to find books on mechanistic, polymer, spectral, organonitrate, thermodynamics and so on. They probably became campfire starters.

[Tikki]

47. Hanging above my bed..along with a photo receiving my diploma..

Vain, I know..I went to University after my boys graduated High School...
All ready in my 40's and I am still in awe of how I managed it all.
Will/Way I guess...

Tikki

[u4ic]

48. In a big plastic tub

With all my other important (and not so important) documents. I've never had them out on display.

[hunter]

49. It's in the last briefcase I ever carried to work.

It's got sealed copies of my college transcripts and references too just in case I ever had use for them again. The last necktie I ever wore to work may be in there too.

Many of the people I knew who might have written nice letters of reference for me are dead.

I'm a little fearful of opening the briefcase. It's a remider of how my life might have gone... Every day is blessed because it did not.

In alternate universes the briefcase-carrying-necktie-wearing Hunter is a bitter old retired guy living in isolation. Or dead.

[beaglelover]

50. Mine is framed and is hanging on the wall to the left of me right now in my home office.

[johnp3907]

51. Ain't got none.

Me not no why! 🤪

[Mz Pip]

52. In a file cabinet

Haven’t looked at them in years.

[Moostache]

53. I have had mine framed and on display in my home since 1994...

I earned that thing and I remain very proud of the accomplishment as the years keep stacking up. I am somewhat mystified by how long ago that was now!

[DBoon]

54. hanging on my home office wall

next to my dogs' obedience school certificates

[Diamond_Dog]

56. On a bookshelf with my hubby's.

[Goonch]

57. ;-{) In the glove compartment o my Rolls-Royce La Rose Noire Droptail

[Xavier Breath]

58. In a box in my storage room.

They're with the grade/high school yearbooks and 4H awards that I never look at.

[malaise]

59. In a filing cabinet

They are in the same red tubes I received with them.

[Upthevibe]

60. It's framed

and on the wall in my room/office.

My degree is my Oscar. I wasn't able to go to college right after high school. Finally, at 36 y.o., I went back and received my Bachelor's from Cal State in 1998.

It's my proudest accomplishment.

[Figarosmom]

61. I think they were left in the attic at my last house

I was missing a lot of photos and stuff in that move.