What does everybody do? Laminate at Officeworks, go to Kmart and get an A3 Frame, or leave it in the postal tube it came in? Thanks.
Frame or laminate degree parchment paper?
Flowerbomb on 17/05/2016 - 19:29
Poll Options
- 2Laminate
- 18Frame it professionally
- 7Kmart Frame
- 8Leave it in the packaging, most expensive piece of paper ever!
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The Reject shop has cheap frames that should suit the parchment. $6 iirc
If you spent $50k on that piece of paper, spend the extra $200* on having it framed professionally in Jarrah or something similar, and hang it up to remind yourself of your achievement. Seriously.
People joke about the value (or not) of that bit of paper but it remains testament to an enormous amount of your effort and money, and the time completing it was probably a big part of your life so far.(*edit: I don't know how old you are but if you're fresh out of uni right after highschool and have proud parents, it's worth asking them if they would have it framed nicely for you)
Anyway, my actual 2c is to photocopy your original degree and get the copies certified by a JP. Then frame and hang your original. Future employers for jobs requiring the degree will want to see your degree (or certified copy), and many will require a certified copy to keep if you get the job. So save yourself the hassle of taking it out of the frame later and keep some certified copies with your resume.
Call your uni, local library or council and ask if they offer free JP (Justice of the Peace) services, many of them do.Great idea! Must the copies be in colour, considering the parchment is?
Postal tube? Did you really not attend your graduation?
Graduation is over rated.
People say that a degree is real hard, but once you're in the real world you understand what the term hard is.
Are we still doing phrasing???
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LAAAANNNNNNNAAAAA!
Danger zone.
Nonsense. Degrees are hard depending what you do.
I'm not 12. I understand what it means to work hard in a 50 hour a week job.
I'm guessing you didn't do a difficult degree. Arts?Does it look like I write like an Arts graduate? If one skill that piss poor degree has, is that most have exceptional English.
Every man and his dog has a degree these days; go back 20 years when a degree was something to celebrate.
The education system is a rort, I can't wait till the day it becomes redundant.
The education system is a rort, I can't wait till the day it becomes redundant.
Uses every aspect of education system, then wants it made redundant…
Umm what?
@Spackbace: huh?
The education system is one of the biggest scams, it doesn't provide skills to meet the requirements of jobs. Furthermore the costs should be falling not rising!
I promised this site I will change the world; I'm going to disrupt the education model which is so outdated.
@Spackbace: I will look into it, it will take a decade before I can impact it.
I have a couple of other projects though which are my first priorities.
Nah I didn't attend. My parents couldn't make it so I didn't go.
Get one of those sweet laser etched testamurs…props to user Gecko for this link: http://www.ambassador.com.au/plaques
My Uni is not on their list…???
If you have a testamur from a different year, or from an institute that is not listed, we may still be able to make a plaque from it. Please phone or email us with your plaque enquiry.
Graduation day for undergrad- bought a frame. frames degree. put framed degree on top of the cupboard.
2 years later i had to take my degree over to Japan, so unframed it and put it in a tube.
14 years later - i have the frame - it's behind my bedroom door leaning against the wall. the degree sits in a box still in the tube.second degree - sits in a tube in the box keeping my first degree company. (i'm hoping they will breed).
when i finish this course - I'll put that degree in a tube and place with the others.
what good are they? (the physical piece of paper) what's the point?
that's an interesting take. have your degrees in the tube change colour or has the paper deteriorated in any way?
they are printed on acid free paper so still fresh.
Working as a printer for many years, laminating was part of the job/skillset.
One chap with an irreplaceable document asked for it to be laminated. He didn't know and neither did we, it was printed with a wax-type ink. It all melted in the lamination heating process and we gave him back a nicely laminated black document. Black, all black, nothing but molten mixed wax laminated, A4 size.
We added one more to our skillset, he lost an irreplaceable document. I still don't know of any wax type ink printers but they come under Solid Ink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_ink
Frame it.
Alternatively burn it as once you start working majority of employers don't care where you studied, just your experience and what value you bring them.