I earned them I wouldn't have the career I have without them! I've resigned my LDS membership. I don't receive solicitation for money from BYU as I've told them I'm an EXMO. Seriously, how do I deal with this? The Shameful Boner.

I keep my master's degree diploma on the top shelf of my closet. I never did pick up the diploma for my undergraduate degree due to about $35 in overdue library fines. It didn't prevent the school from releasing my transcripts, however.

Apparently too many people caught on to the trick of taking a few classes, racking up a small library fine, and claiming to have graduated.

Good one. :) I still wonder what they did with my diploma.

I don't know if you should feel shame for such a accomplishment. I'm sure you got a good education even if you got a little fantasy religious instruction on top. You can always scan it and photoshop a different school name ; ' )

You're right! I could substitute Rexburg, ID for Provo, UT! Things could be worse!

LOL! That'll keep you humble!

Well if you're stinking rich, wipe your ass with it and mail it back to BYU in care of President who ever it is.

hehe my security code to enter is XFUCG

Donate the diploma to charity, and then you can write off the cost of your education!

Is my memory faulty? Could I have paid $15 a unit in 1967? At the start of each semester, did my dad just peel off a couple of C-notes from the wad he carried, and that was that for funding my education?

If it is true, eat your hearts out those of you born 55 years after I was!

How about for old time's sake you and I meet at the Cougar Eat and order an iron port? Remember those? Then we could go and white-wash the Y so it is pure and delightsome. Oh, and remember to say "flip" while on campus. Perhaps, we could go in our grubby attire as the new generation of Cougars has no idea of what that means.



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You earned them and they should be framed in your office or your den. It's not like you played football for BYU. If you played football I'd say never tell a soul. That's something to be ashamed of for sure.

Keep em framed and placed somewhere you can show them off.

You earned them. Doesn't mean you need to feel guilty for not wanting to give a dime to the church college now.

I don't feel like contributing squat diddly to my alma maters, and they weren't church college either. They already squeezed me dry getting my degrees!

Hrmph!

Photoshop adding University of Utah.....something you can be proud of and claim too, if you are inclined , to have played football or basketball or tennis........

I'd rather be a BYU Boner than a U of U Stoner! :D :D :D

Part of the process of getting an education -- both formal and informal -- is discovering that your would have done something differently if you had known then what you know now. It's normal to get to a point in life and realize you would have preferred a different school, or a different major, or a different course entirely. Put them in a drawer and value the whole of your education, including the process of learning as much about your university as you learned from it.

You did say that without them, you wouldn't have the career you have so they do have intrinsic value to you. I doubt very seriously that you worked any less hard for them than you would have at another, more palatable school, such as The U. That said, you might consider framing them both in the same frame and then hanging it(them) in a spot that would be considered "less than honorable', such as in a bathroom or garage?

I do not lie in the face of discussions with other MPA's, otherwise I rarely mention where I went to school. However, my fellow MPA's, who are in the know about such things have often said, "Wow - now THAT's a tough MPA. Didn't you have to do 64 credits?"

I'm surprised that they know, And yeah, it WAS tough - even more so because I had 3 children aged 1 to 5 waiting for me after school! The program was actually extremely supportive, allowing me to substitute other graduate classes that were equivalent that met at times easier for my parenting duties.

I recall pushing back saying, "Doesn't the church teach that I shouldn't be leaving those babies and doing this degree?" My professors said, "Graduate school is where you belong, you and your husband will figure out the rest."

And, in 1988 when I graduated, half the women in the MPA graduating class had kids. That is to say, I had kids, Tara did not. There were no other women!



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My BYU Undergrad diploma is still in its little leatherette folder which appears to have been chewed upon by mice.

Good question, Boner. I never got to the diploma level at Ricks and my two diplomas in Broadcast Journalism were kinda redundant when I took up farming so they're long gone.

RB

Good question, boner. I have no idea where my BYU diploma is. Let us know what you wind up doing, in case I come across it.

My wife's BYU diploma was mailed to our old address even though we had forwarded our mail. Someone who lived in our old apartment brought it by the school where she was teaching pre-kindergarten summer school. The school secretary handed it to her when she was heading back to her classroom after visiting the bathroom. Just as she walked into the classroom that she was co-teaching, a child experienced a nosebleed.Thinking only of the child, she immediately dropped the envelope containing her diploma onto the nearest surface, which unfortunately happened to be the free-cut- and-glue table.

After tending to the child, she forgot all about having carried her diploma into the classroom. Eventually she remembered. It was too late. Her BYU diploma was in shreds in some kid's artistic creation. She just laughed because what else could she do?



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