<p>Hey, Class of 2009, do any of you know when we are going to get our Harvard e-mails? Also, do we get to choose our e-mails, or are they set on default?</p>
<p>You don't get to choose, and you can't get them changed. You get an e-mail address with a maximum of 8 characters that's based on your last name and possibly your initials or some numbers, depending on how common your surname is.</p>
<p>Oh, that sucks. My first name has 6 letters and my last name has 3. I don't have a middle name. There's no good e-mail address I can come up with that... unless I just use my first name, which I wouldn't mind. I don't think they'd do that, though.</p>
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<p>my last name has 3</p>
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<p>If your last name is, say, Kim or Cho, something really common, your email might either be like billkim@fas or jkim43@fas.</p>
<p>lol. my last name is really common too. but my first isnt at all. = D</p>
<p>so we can only use this email while we're studying at harvard? well that's not very helpful then. if we were to give this email out as our "official email" then people cannot even contact us 4 years later. not very reliable.</p>
<p>...my High School gives me an email account. I don't expect it to remain when I've left the school...why should it be any different for a college?</p>
<p>princeton - im pretty sure that we get to keep the emails....</p>
<p>You can't keep the e-mail address once you graduate, but it's entirely likely that this policy will change, as technology-related things are wont to do. You do get a permanent post.harvard.edu forwarding address when you graduate, which you do get to pick.</p>