{"id":1518,"date":"2008-04-29T04:14:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T12:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/diploma\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T04:14:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T12:14:34","slug":"diploma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/diploma\/","title":{"rendered":"Diploma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got my college diploma! I&#8217;ve always thought I&#8217;d be back in Berkeley to pick it up myself, but every time I&#8217;ve been back, the timing wasn&#8217;t right. The office was either closed, or I didn&#8217;t have time, so on and so on. I&#8217;ve dreaded to have them mail it to me, because I can&#8217;t see how they can justify charging $12 for it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, apparently they only hold your diploma for 5 years and given that it&#8217;s almost 3 years since I graduated (my brother inviting me to his graduation reminded me), I decided that $12 it is.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/registrar.berkeley.edu\/Records\/diplomas.html\">Office of the Registrar website<\/a>, and apparently they don&#8217;t take credit cards. !@$#$*&amp;&amp;!%&amp;!$*!@#*!&amp;%! Apparently I am forced to write them a check, and you know how I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/checking-account-numbers\/\">hate checks<\/a>. I decided if that&#8217;s what it&#8217;ll take to get my diploma, so be it. I wrote them a $12 check and mailed it off with my application. By god, I can&#8217;t believe I still remember my student ID number without giving a sweat.<\/p>\n<p>So what did $12 net me which would&#8217;ve cost me $0.00 if I picked it up in person? Apparently the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cardboard envelope with a &#8220;<strong>DIPLOMA &#8211; DO NOT BEND<\/strong>&#8221; note on it<\/li>\n<li>2 paper-sized cardboard pieces to keep the diploma from bending<\/li>\n<li>1 UPS label to ship 1lb to anywhere in the USA<\/li>\n<li>Someone putting this altogether and dumping it in the outgoing mail bin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, I feel gypped too. You&#8217;d expect it to at least come with a frame or something. Haha. ;p Oh well. At least now I have proof that I graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. degree. If my mom was here, she&#8217;d probably frame it. Knowing me, it&#8217;ll end up in my pile of junk. Plus don&#8217;t forget, I know have Arnold Swarchenegger&#8217;s signature!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. This may be my last post in awhile. Been watching a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search\/ref=br_ss_hs\/002-5477801-7638416?keywords=genshiken&#038;platform=gurupa&#038;url=index%3Dblended&#038;tag=krunk4everblog-20\">Genshiken<\/a> and now I&#8217;ve started watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search\/ref=br_ss_hs\/002-5477801-7638416?keywords=house&#038;platform=gurupa&#038;url=index%3Dblended&#038;tag=krunk4everblog-20\">House<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got my college diploma! I&#8217;ve always thought I&#8217;d be back in Berkeley to pick it up myself, but every time I&#8217;ve been back, the timing wasn&#8217;t right. The office was either closed, or I didn&#8217;t have time, so on and so on. I&#8217;ve dreaded to have them mail it to me, because I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/diploma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Diploma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[530,80,79,528,526,529,41,505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}