<p>The one I got is simply my first and last initial followed by a number.nd.edu. Are we not able to chose our own name? This is very disappointing!</p>
<p>You should have more than one e-mail address (it'll all go to the same inbox, it just might be a shorter address, etc.). Here's how you find your various e-mail addresses:
Go to the Notre Dame Directory. Link: University</a> of Notre Dame : ND Online Directory
Search for yourself. Click on your entry, then click on "More Info."
In this new screen, click on "Display complete list of attributes" at the bottom of the page. Next to ndmail, you will see the three e-mail addresses you can use. Mine, for instance, are my <a href="mailto:NetID@nd.edu">NetID@nd.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:first.last.number@nd.edu">first.last.number@nd.edu</a>, and <a href="mailto:last.number@nd.edu">last.number@nd.edu</a>.</p>
<p>This system is really ****ing me off. It looks really stupid having a number at the end of my e-mail address. They better change this. I'm e-mailing OIT.</p>
<p>They're not going to change it. Get used to it.</p>
<p>yeah. lots of schools are like that.</p>
<p>plus not everyone has a number. i know a few people who don't. it just depends on how many people with the same last name/first initial as you</p>
<p>You're complaining about your email address? That's weak brother. At least you don't have hyphens like some folks at other colleges.</p>
<p>Jeez</p>
<p>No kidding. Quit *****ing, you get to go to Notre Dame.</p>
<p>so just because it's ND they have the right to give me whatever they want and I'm just supposed to take it? is it really asking THAT much just to have a personalized e-mail address without arbitrary numbers at the end?</p>
<p>Speaking as someone who has seen IT at many schools, let me tell you that ND does an AMAZING job. I am currently at West Virginia University working on my PhD and all of the grad student and faculty emails end with @mail.wvu.edu and student emails are @mix.wvu.edu. At least it is just nd.edu. You will see, the shared drives are great, far better than anything we have at WVU, it is much easier to post things online, it is a fantastic setup that ND has spent a lot of money on it. The problem is with all technology that it has its limits, and the email is one of those. There will always be more than one swilliams, so a number seems to be the only option.</p>
<p>For the short period of time that I have been reading comments on the CC forum I have been overly surprised at how positive and helpful people are, so I will attempt to reply to the email address concern without crossing the line. </p>
<p>From the time the internet was developed and the ability to send information via email I have interviewed and hired many individuals. At no time in 20 plus years has one person asked what or how an email address would be determined assigned if hired, nor have I ever had an employee approach me to voice a concern of an email address. Most companies and universities do have a sequence that is followed to determine an address, so whatever the address ND assigns will not be what your employer assigns. In short, usually no one will be in control of their (work) email address unless they work for a smaller company that may not have a set system (or self-employed). To my knowledge there is not one business contact that I correspond with that has an email address that does not somehow denote his or her name (at least in part) and the company they work for.</p>
<p>Getting into the real world people will find they can not always chose what they want and things will not look as good as expected.</p>
<p>There are many individuals who are on the wait list for Notre Dame that would respectfully allow the university to assign any address available. </p>
<p>danbrenn said it best, you get to go to Notre Dame.</p>
<p>With all of the exciting and wonderful things that each student has to look forward to when attending any university, I don't understand the OP's negative focus on something as insignificant as an e-mail address. That's all it is - an e-mail address. There are so many other important issues to concern himself with instead of wasting his time complaining about his e-mail address.</p>
<p>ditto. i'm excited about my email. nothing to see negatively about it. i didn't expect to get personalized ones.</p>
<p>but honestly, it's nothing to fuss over.</p>
<p>And, according to our student, you will be overwhelmed with e-mails regardless of your e-mail address!</p>
<p>please tell me this kid is kidding.</p>
<p>i can't wait to see how you react to other, more serious, matters...</p>
<p>jeez bro... its just an email address</p>
<p>this has got to be wrong!</p>
<p>google sets us up a gmail address, which is just <a href="mailto:firstinitiallastname@nd.edu">firstinitiallastname@nd.edu</a>. That directory listing does not give my email address. Say my name was John Smith, my email would be <a href="mailto:jsmith@nd.edu">jsmith@nd.edu</a>. I don't know what that directory means but I just set mine up and it's very simple compared to the directiory listing. The directory listing has mine as follows: <a href="mailto:John.B.Smith.3@nd.edu">John.B.Smith.3@nd.edu</a>, but my real one is <a href="mailto:jsmith@nd.edu">jsmith@nd.edu</a><a href="that's%20not%20my%20name%20by%20the%20way">/email</a></p>
<p>yeah you guys, its just first initial last because all my current friends at ND have this type as their email too, no numbers nothing</p>
<p>justbumming- every person has 3 e-mail addresses</p>
<p>firstinitial + lastname + (optional # if you are not the first one)@nd.edu</p>
<p>lastname.#@nd.edu</p>
<p>firstname.MI.lastname.#@nd.edu</p>
<p>you can choose whichever one you want</p>
<p>well then why are people complaining?</p>
<p>cause people want to do like......</p>
<p><a href="mailto:imsoawesomerofl@nd.edu">imsoawesomerofl@nd.edu</a></p>
<p>Ideally, .'s and #'s should have no place within a terse, elegantly professional e-mail address of mine.</p>
<p>I'm willing to take the Lastname.#@nd.edu construction though, if it means being able to go to Notre Dame.</p>