My dad bought me the frames; it would never have occured to me. Neither of my parents finished their degrees (although I think they were each within a year of graduating before they ran off to the frozen north), so I think they were particularly excited about mine.
Interesting; I wouldn't have thought not to. I have the double-matted frame because my mother insisted on buying it, but...that's what you do with diplomas. You frame them.
Of course, mine is quite large. I noticed my best friend, who went to a less prestigious uni, had hers in the folder-thing the uni provided for it at the ceremony (the diploma itself came later); that folder-thing was like what we had our high school diplomas in.
Now I'm wondering how much of this has to do with the size of the piece of paper. Mine's too big to stick anywhere much. It's not huge huge, but large enough that it's not easily protected.
Mine is indeed larger than A4, if I'm converting inches to millimeters correctly, which I'm rather certain I am. It's 12x14--not much larger, but still larger. It won't fit flat into my desk or either chest of drawers, or on or in any other piece of furniture I own (other than my bed). I could either keep it in the envelope in which it arrived or buy something in which to store it, neither of which would be durable enough to survive living with me.
In comparison, the friend I mentioned above? Hers seems to be 8x10, which is smaller than our paper standard of 8.5x11, and thus can be stored easily almost anywhere.
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Date: 2005-05-23 10:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-23 10:57 am (UTC)Of course, mine is quite large. I noticed my best friend, who went to a less prestigious uni, had hers in the folder-thing the uni provided for it at the ceremony (the diploma itself came later); that folder-thing was like what we had our high school diplomas in.
Now I'm wondering how much of this has to do with the size of the piece of paper. Mine's too big to stick anywhere much. It's not huge huge, but large enough that it's not easily protected.
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Date: 2005-05-23 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-24 08:24 am (UTC)In comparison, the friend I mentioned above? Hers seems to be 8x10, which is smaller than our paper standard of 8.5x11, and thus can be stored easily almost anywhere.