I Do Not Get It
Posted by BViews on April 24, 2009
I have never really understood the reason why someone would go through all of the trouble of going to school and completing a degree program without proudly displaying the diploma they earned. When I enter a friend or family member’s home I always glance around and look for the diploma on the wall. Sadly, I’ve noticed that many people aren’t displaying it these days. I can understand when people decide not to hang their high school diploma. I guess that I don’t really see graduating from high school is such a major accomplishment. To me, high school was the pretty easy and graduating was more of inevitability than an accomplishment. Now, graduating from college was much more of an accomplishment to me, as I was studying to get a degree while holding down a full time job. This took a great deal of sacrifice for me and my family.
I think that diploma framing is a perfect way to honor an accomplishment like this. I guess that putting the diploma in some type of special album would just as suffice, but I do enjoy walking by mine and being reminded that it has been completed and in a way it also helps me to remember that I can accomplish anything that I put my mind to. Many people buy specialized a college diploma frame. What you learn and experience in college should become a part of your life, but physically seeing the diploma is a reminder of the hard work and time that was put into the process.