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Post by sinim on Jul 2, 2007 7:46:50 GMT -5
This is what you get for all your hard work. This is obviously not mine, but it's what mine looks like. You don't even get a frame. They cost extra. ($50-$100+)
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Post by Draxas on Jul 2, 2007 9:47:47 GMT -5
Yup, that's basically it. And yet, that piece of paper is the key to getting practically any job where you don't have to say "would you like fries with that?" these days.
I've still got mine on a shelf in my room. Rutgers was at least kind enough to provide a bookish sort of frame for it, though it was certainly not meant to hang on the wall that way.
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Jul 2, 2007 10:46:21 GMT -5
Post by sinim on Jul 2, 2007 10:46:21 GMT -5
Oh yeah...I got the book thing...it was empty though...lol. Right? They mailed me that paper later. My mom bought a frame from the school bookstore as a gift.
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Jul 2, 2007 11:00:43 GMT -5
Post by Draxas on Jul 2, 2007 11:00:43 GMT -5
Well, mine actually came inserted into the book. It had an artist's depiction of part of the campus on the left, and the diploma on the right, as I recall (I haven't actually looked at the thing in forever). I've heard stories of people marching for graduation, and winding up with empty diplomas (or worse yet, notices that they are actually unable to graduate), but I don't know anyone it actually happened to. I guess that makes you the first
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Jul 2, 2007 11:12:48 GMT -5
Post by sinim on Jul 2, 2007 11:12:48 GMT -5
They didn't put our diplomas in there because we had graduation right after the last day of finals. That way they had time to find out who graduated and who didn't. The book was nice though. Had a drawing like yours did and a little letter saying we'd get our diplomas in the mail.
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Jul 2, 2007 13:33:41 GMT -5
Post by Draxas on Jul 2, 2007 13:33:41 GMT -5
Seems reasonable. Rutgers just had graduation about a week or so after finals ended, so all the test scores were already in; I assume that most schools do the same thing, because most of my friends from high school who went elsewhere had the same sort of arrangement.
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Jul 2, 2007 13:40:06 GMT -5
Post by sinim on Jul 2, 2007 13:40:06 GMT -5
My wife had hers a week after too.
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Post by Altl on Jul 3, 2007 3:17:26 GMT -5
Sweet, a piece of paper that will no doubt cost me thousands of dollars of debt and with any luck it'll be like the High School Diploma and look like something I could print with my twenty dollar Hewlett Packard printer at home.
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Jul 3, 2007 11:14:01 GMT -5
Post by Draxas on Jul 3, 2007 11:14:01 GMT -5
Probably, yeah. But it's a matter of the college being able to confirm that they gave it to you that counts.
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Jul 3, 2007 14:05:27 GMT -5
Post by sinim on Jul 3, 2007 14:05:27 GMT -5
Yeah. I remember a couple of companies also wanting a transcript.
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Jul 3, 2007 20:28:22 GMT -5
Post by niff on Jul 3, 2007 20:28:22 GMT -5
i think they should do away with certificates and have them done as tattoos
that way you won't lose them
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