The only requirement for my MA was to stay alive for two years after graduating my BA (seriously) - needless to say I've never bothered to collect on that offe

The only requirement for my MA was to stay alive for two years after graduating my BA (seriously) - needless to say I've never bothered to collect on that offer, but if I had it would certainly be worth less (if there is a metric for value of academic theses) than one issued on the basis of a thesis about Lolcats.