WWU Diploma arrived in the post today

[kevyn]

WWU Diploma

After 22 years of work and gods only know how much money, I finally got...

...a piece of paper.

The text reads:
Western Washington University
1893

The board of trustees of Western Washington University
on recommendation of the faculty and by virtue of the
authority vested in it by law has conferred upon
Kevyn Daniel Jacobs
The Degree of
Bachelor of Arts
Given at Bellingham, in the state of Washington, this
twenty second day of August, two thousand eight.
Karen W. Morse
President of the University

Philip E. Sharpe, Jr.
Chair of the Board of Trustees

Comments

[detailbear.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, dear. The present world runs on pieces of paper and what they represent.

Suggestion: Once you've grown tired of looking at the original, scan it at good resolution. Have it framed. Send it to your Mom for 'safekeeping'. She'll feel better being able to see and touch it from time to time, I think.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm going to frame my diploma for my wall, but I scanned it and sent it to Mom, who has already printed it out!

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[kadyg.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congratulations!

Detailbear makes a good suggestion, your mom would like knowing it's safe and she's a big reason why you graduated. If you are feeling sappy you could make her a diploma too.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
Yup, it was a good suggestion, and I did scan it and send the scan to her.

Congratulations, and good luck

[teledildonix.livejournal.com]

It's fantastic now that you've succeeded at one of your big goals. One of the great things about education is that it never has to end, even when you've made it past an official 'marker' of progress. Congratulations on such an important 'marker', i'm so glad you made it this far. But now, even if you never formally get involved with any other classes for a long time, you can still consider yourself to be on a sort of continuous 'field trip'.... you can keep up those attitudes of being always open to learning and always eager for fascination and astonishment which can be found in such sorts of progress. I think it's cool that you received a diploma, partly for the sake of what it will represent to other people; but to me you always seem capable of forever studying and being educated. That doesn't stop just because classes are out! Excelsior, friend!

Re: Congratulations, and good luck

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I am sure I'll probably get more education in the future, but right now, I have gone as far as I need to.