<p>Anyone in class of 2012 know how to set up the University Network ID?</p>
<p>They'll send us our UNIs with housing assignments this summer.</p>
<p>Or send it to your child, more likely.</p>
<p>what about the id you're supposed to use for your housing and dining application? (the "PID")</p>
<p>It's the same one you use to access the Welcome Website. I believe all of them start with C00... Your password is your date of birth in the MM/DD/YYYY format.</p>
<p>You need the UNI to get on the ssol website and fill in whatever you're supposed to fill in, which is one step of the housing and dining application. Is this step not supposed to be completed until after May 1?</p>
<p>Wait, we don't get to pick our own email addresses?</p>
<p>no....i'm sure its obvious why....columbia wouldnt be particularly fond of someone picking a name like <a href="mailto:hottrampxoxo@columbia.edu">hottrampxoxo@columbia.edu</a> ...plus it just makes things easier if there is some sort of general rule of thumb to all email addresses...thats how it is at most institutions...academic or otherwise</p>
<p>What kind of idiot would do that? </p>
<p>I was hoping to have something easier to remember than my initials and a bunch of numbers that doesn't mean anything.</p>
<p>"What kind of idiot would do that? "</p>
<p>-most</p>
<p>"I was hoping to have something easier to remember than my initials and a bunch of numbers that doesn't mean anything."</p>
<p>it's concise, and you use your uni (what comes before @columbia.edu) so much that remembering it is not an issue. the freedom to choose would be silly, but I personally would have preferred firstname.lastname[add number if multiple first and last name combinations exist]@columbia.edu. The problem is it could become too long at times and thus cumbersome when filling forms.</p>
<p>It's actually really easy to remember the number that they assign you. I recently found out mine, and had it memorized only a few minutes after I had gotten it. It's only four numbers, and you can make up a pattern to memorize it:)</p>
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<p>within a couple weeks you will know that number as well as you know your name....you'll find yourself using it all the time....its just like your SS#...its just a string of 9 random numbers but you've memorized that i'm assuming</p>
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I personally would have preferred firstname.lastname[add number if multiple first and last name combinations exist]@columbia.edu
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<p>as was stated before several times, if your name is unique <a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@columbia.edu">firstname.lastname@columbia.edu</a> works and i think even <a href="mailto:firstinitiallastname@columbia.edu">firstinitiallastname@columbia.edu</a> works too. It all depends on how unique u r....but trust me you'll find the standard one much easier and you'll have the directory to remind you of your friends' or professors' emails.</p>
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<p>Agreed. I bet most 17 yr old Columbia admits would register <a href="mailto:cutieNYCxo@columbia.edu">cutieNYCxo@columbia.edu</a> or whatever over <a href="mailto:abc1234@columbia.edu">abc1234@columbia.edu</a></p>
<p>I find it really hard to believe that someone else at Columbia has my name... when i searched for my name, I was the only person. I can't do the <a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@columbia.edu">firstname.lastname@columbia.edu</a> or the <a href="mailto:firstnamelastname@columbia.edu">firstnamelastname@columbia.edu</a> =(</p>
<p>Whateveerrr...at the university i would have attended in the Netherlands, students dont even get a university e-mail. Plus, their student number is s(for student)-6 digits. so Im actually glad with initials-four digits. :)</p>
<p>In case anyone was wondering, the UNIs are up and running. I found mine today.</p>
<p>Me too. .........</p>