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CTyankee

(68,437 posts)
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:30 PM 10 hrs ago

where do you keep your college degrees?

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...

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where do you keep your college degrees? (Original Post) CTyankee 10 hrs ago OP
Bookshelf DURHAM D 10 hrs ago #1
In a drawer somewhere, I had them in my office when I worked but after that just filed away. walkingman 10 hrs ago #2
So I looked in my file cabinet. Nope. CTyankee 10 hrs ago #4
Mine are in a box in storage. OLDMDDEM 10 hrs ago #3
They're in a box somewhere EYESORE 9001 10 hrs ago #5
In a closet bamagal62 10 hrs ago #6
Me too. Maraya1969 2 hrs ago #22
In a drawer except gopiscrap 9 hrs ago #7
OH! Where did you get that degree? It sounds so wonderful!!! CTyankee 9 hrs ago #9
It was conferred from and affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union gopiscrap 6 hrs ago #19
WOW!!! 3catwoman3 1 hr ago #24
N/A! Floyd R. Turbo 9 hrs ago #8
Somewhere in a closet LogDog75 8 hrs ago #10
I looked in my closet. Sad to say, they weren't there... CTyankee 8 hrs ago #11
In my spare bedroom MIButterfly 8 hrs ago #12
I'm kind of the same way since I retired LogDog75 8 hrs ago #13
My bachelor's degree was stuffed in a box in the garage for 36 years, but... LudwigPastorius 7 hrs ago #14
I keep mine in my past. zanana1 7 hrs ago #15
Proud of mine, have it standing up multigraincracker 7 hrs ago #16
Did you check your office wall? nuxvomica 7 hrs ago #17
No. Alas. I checked (I never put them on any wall and I am long retired now). CTyankee 3 hrs ago #21
Unfortunately, both my bachelors and masters degree certificates are in a cardboard tube somewhere (closet?). waterwatcher123 7 hrs ago #18
Mine were framed hanging on the wall of my study mnhtnbb 6 hrs ago #20
My nursing bachelor's and master's degree diplomas are in a desk drawer. 3catwoman3 1 hr ago #23

walkingman

(11,132 posts)
2. In a drawer somewhere, I had them in my office when I worked but after that just filed away.
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:34 PM
10 hrs ago

CTyankee

(68,437 posts)
4. So I looked in my file cabinet. Nope.
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:38 PM
10 hrs ago

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

EYESORE 9001

(29,876 posts)
5. They're in a box somewhere
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:44 PM
10 hrs ago

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

CTyankee

(68,437 posts)
9. OH! Where did you get that degree? It sounds so wonderful!!!
Wed May 13, 2026, 02:55 PM
9 hrs ago

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

gopiscrap

(24,777 posts)
19. It was conferred from and affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union
Wed May 13, 2026, 05:10 PM
6 hrs ago

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

LogDog75

(1,365 posts)
10. Somewhere in a closet
Wed May 13, 2026, 03:06 PM
8 hrs ago

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.

MIButterfly

(3,127 posts)
12. In my spare bedroom
Wed May 13, 2026, 03:36 PM
8 hrs ago

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

(1,365 posts)
13. I'm kind of the same way since I retired
Wed May 13, 2026, 03:56 PM
8 hrs ago

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

(14,973 posts)
14. My bachelor's degree was stuffed in a box in the garage for 36 years, but...
Wed May 13, 2026, 03:59 PM
7 hrs ago

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

multigraincracker

(38,005 posts)
16. Proud of mine, have it standing up
Wed May 13, 2026, 04:12 PM
7 hrs ago

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

waterwatcher123

(535 posts)
18. Unfortunately, both my bachelors and masters degree certificates are in a cardboard tube somewhere (closet?).
Wed May 13, 2026, 04:15 PM
7 hrs ago

mnhtnbb

(33,491 posts)
20. Mine were framed hanging on the wall of my study
Wed May 13, 2026, 05:27 PM
6 hrs ago

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

3catwoman3

(29,757 posts)
23. My nursing bachelor's and master's degree diplomas are in a desk drawer.
Wed May 13, 2026, 10:15 PM
1 hr ago

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.

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