My degrees are sitting in a drawer; why the hell won't the universities sell matting?
A mild rant that I needed to get off my chest. I am on staycation thanks to COVID-19 and doing a bit of tidying up at home. One of the things that has always irked me is that my wife and I still haven't framed and hung our degrees. The reason? We have degrees from multiple different universities and none of them use the same frames, nor do any of the Canadian universities sell the matting separately. Now I know what someone is going to say: "Just buy the frames and take out the matting". Sure, we could do that, but that just seems extraordinarily wasteful. We would be spending over $600 (6 degrees between us) just to throw away the frames. I know these are easy money for the universities, but multiple degrees and/or certificates isn't exactly uncommon these days. Just sell the bloody matting! /rant