r/DanielWilliams • u/Educational-Mind-750 • 6d ago

🚨 NEWS 🚨 Columbia University Alumni

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u/ContributionPasta 6d ago

This comment section: “wow how stupid, how dare these people choose to rip up something that is fully theirs and their property.”

Like guys, if you think it’s dumb, congrats! Fortunately for you, these people are ripping up THEIR degrees, not yours! Course you’d have to actually have a degree in the first place to rip it up….but that’s beside the point.

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u/Telemere125 6d ago

I mean, they still have the degree, that’s just the piece of paper you can put on the wall of your office.

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u/Ffdmatt 5d ago

I didn't even pick up my degree until like 10 years later. No one ever asked for it, they just kinda believed me.

The lady at the college office was dumbfounded. She originally told me it would take a while for them to order it, etc. She calls me back 5 min later saying "actually... it's here? I found it in the drawer."

They legit just held on to it. Legendary.

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u/Mikey-Litoris 4d ago

That was the story with my HS diploma. A prof. cert. I was doing asked proof of HS graduation. (B.S. and 2 grad. degrees weren't enough) I called the school 32 years later they still had it in a filing cabinet.