Do you have your Grad School Email yet?

[RBWilliams]

OK, I freaked out at Best Buy this morning.  I've been accepted to my program for months and registered  about a week.  I NEVER got info telling me what my email address was and thought I would get it at Orientation.  Soooooo, I've been waiting to buy a computer to get the college discount.  I went to Best Buy cause their MacBook Pro is on sale.  I told sales rep I didn't have email yet, but had my acceptance letter.  He would not accept that.  He told me I should have that, if I'm accepted.  I called my school and they confirm it.  They told me what it was over the phone.  Mind you I got nothing from them telling me what it was before now.  We log on at Best Buy and I had 47 emails from like March to present.  LOL, thankfully, nothing from my professors with assignments.  Even though we did get email saying, there would be pre-class work before our first class.  My world is right again and I'm good.  LESSON LEARNED:   ASK for your email address...........Got $100 off my MacBook Pro...

[bakalamba]

Yes. The magical power of the .edu address.

[geographyrocks]

I've always had to activate my email. I'm assuming you're at U of L since your location says Louisville. You have to do most of that stuff through uLink.

By the by, they also offer discounts on cellular plans. I think AT&T was 15% off your monthly bill if you have any 2 year plan.

Of course, if you aren't at u of l then everything I just said was crap. Lol

[Maleficent999]

I got to pick my own email. We had to set it up once we accepted their offer and were confirmed as the 2014 cohort. BTW, I know you already bought your computer but Apple has their back to school promotion going on. I ordered my Macbook Air online and got $200 off the laptop plus a $100 Apple store credit.

[Vene]

I've had mine for a few months now. The admin assistant sent out an email to my personal account with how to set it up.

[ProfMoriarty]

I'm meant to get mine once I send back the student contract signed... which will be a while from now, seeing as they haven't even sent the contract! (other people in other departments have already received theirs *sigh*)

[seeingeyeduck]

We had to activate and choose our email too. Or rather choose our student access login and that becomes the email address

[maelia8]

I've created my student account login, which should become the email address, but I don't know where the login page is to actually access that email address … have hunted all around on the "inside" of the student account pages with no luck. Probably time to email my department secretary ...

[DeleteMePlease]

I'm meant to get mine once I send back the student contract signed... which will be a while from now, seeing as they haven't even sent the contract! (other people in other departments have already received theirs *sigh*)

 

Contract? I only got an offer letter. 

[seeingeyeduck]

I've created my student account login, which should become the email address, but I don't know where the login page is to actually access that email address … have hunted all around on the "inside" of the student account pages with no luck. Probably time to email my department secretary ...

Have you tried googling the name of your school and "webmail"?

[Vene]

Contract? I only got an offer letter.

I had to sign the offer letter and return it so maybe that's the contract?

[ProfMoriarty]

Contract? I only got an offer letter.

They are meant to send me an offer confirmation letter (I.e., unconditional offer) and the student contract.

[maelia8]

Have you tried googling the name of your school and "webmail"?

 

I tried again yesterday after posting and it wouldn't let me login with my student account password and username - it said I wasn't authorized yet. This time I'm sure I found the right place to do it, but clearly they haven't activated the webmail part of my account yet.

[Maleficent999]

We got an email a few months ago telling us to make sure we set up our student emails as the department secretary would be contacting us on those exclusively. Our email is Gmail based, which is convenient, so I can login to my student email at Gmail.com.

 

RE: offer letter

We had to sign and return our offer letters, which I'm assuming acts as a contract. It sounds like we also will be having to sign and return a contract now that our TAships have been assigned for the first quarter.

[LittleDarlings]

I had to activate my email like a week or 2 after being accepted.

[bakalamba]

I guess every University has their own system for assigning email addresses, and I have a very obscure last name, so usually I get something that's easy to remember and give out, and somewhat resembles my actual name. But for my new school, I get something like blah001@school.edu - what's up with that?

 

/rant

[Macavity]

I was assigned one when I applied, and told to check it regularly.

[RBWilliams]

OK, it's that time.  LOL, got 7 emails from my first professor of syllabus, writing rubic, group presentation docs, peer evaluation forms, etc.  OMG, my poor inkjet needs a laser buddy cause I printed lots....We have to create our own binder with various articles for this class, but they will be used for other classes as well.  I need the latest APA writing guide to learn how to use that for the 6-8 page paper due the end of August.  I'm excited and got butterflies.....lol.  I still gotta get my study area organized to get to work on my reading and writing....already...After all the email snafu, I got those emails on my PERSONAL email.....lol.......Glad everyone already have it or knows when/where to get it. Oh, we are using Moodle? for our webbased class stuff and info......had to call the help desk to get that, which ended up being my student username and password.....All's good.

[reinhard]

Wait...grad students use their alma mater's email??? Pretty much all the grad students in my undergrad university don't use them.

[RunnerGrad]

No, I don't have my grad school email yet.  In order to obtain our email address, we need to have our student ID card.  As I don't live in the city where my graduate school is located, I haven't yet made the trip into the city to obtain my ID card.  I do plan on doing that later this week.  So I will have my student ID card and my new email address shortly.

 

We have to use our official university email for all university business, once classes start.  Professors will only respond to emails sent from official university email accounts if you have questions about course material, research, arranging meetings, etc.  Any information you need to know will only be sent to your official university email, once you have it.  It was the same at my undergraduate university.

[RBWilliams]

No, I don't have my grad school email yet.  In order to obtain our email address, we need to have our student ID card.  As I don't live in the city where my graduate school is located, I haven't yet made the trip into the city to obtain my ID card.  I do plan on doing that later this week.  So I will have my student ID card and my new email address shortly.

 

We have to use our official university email for all university business, once classes start.  Professors will only respond to emails sent from official university email accounts if you have questions about course material, research, arranging meetings, etc.  Any information you need to know will only be sent to your official university email, once you have it.  It was the same at my undergraduate university.

 

It will be same at my University, once school officially starts.  Guessing there may be others that have not gotten their Univ emails.....so they are sending emails to the personal email, which was on application.  LOL, I have been checking my personal and univ email now.  Just in case someone does something different.  

[felicity_happy]

I guess every University has their own system for assigning email addresses, and I have a very obscure last name, so usually I get something that's easy to remember and give out, and somewhat resembles my actual name. But for my new school, I get something like blah001@school.edu - what's up with that?

 

/rant

 

My email address has that '001' at the end, too. I wonder what that's about.

[avflinsch]

Yes. The magical power of the .edu address.

The .edu address is good for all sorts of discounts - especially for software. Quite a bit of expen$ive software has an academic discount available if you have a .edu address.

[RunnerGrad]

In Canada we don't have .edu email addresses, but we can still get student discounts and educational pricing on software, computers, etc.  We just normally have to go through the university to do so.

[juilletmercredi]

It's not always true that you get an email if you are accepted; I don't think I got my grad school uni email until I had arrived on campus.  Some universities are more on the ball than others.  I also had to wait until I got on campus to get the email for my postdoc uni.