<p>So I just have a concern about my email address. It isn't bad but I use some singer's (who I'm not really a fan of now) album name as my email which I really want to change to my real name so people recognise it faster. Is it better to change for college? I'm in my senior year now and I wonder if you generally use your names as your email or it doesn't really matter. Also, is it better to use gmail?</p>
<p>Most universities will give you an email that is some variant of your <a href=“mailto:name@xxx.edu”>name@xxx.edu</a>. </p>
<p>I’d also get a professional gmail account or something. Yes, it makes a huge difference and you should never, ever email anyone other than friends/family with your personal email (the album name one)</p>
<p>Do college students often use their college email or personal/professional gmail?</p>
<p>I use my professional email and have all of my email forwarded to professional email. I have greater functionality with signatures and organizing with my gmail and on Outlook, and the school email interface is clunky.</p>
<p>I use my university email for any school-related emails and also for my LinkedIn account since that’s my most professional email right now. </p>
<p>I use my personal Gmail account for things like YouTube, Google+, and any other things I want associated with my name.</p>
<p>I’ll also use my university email if I’m emailing a company or something and want to be taken seriously, but that’s about it. </p>
<p>Just make a new Gmail account with your first name and last name in the title. That can be your “permanent” email.</p>
<p>For the college app process I made a Gmail account that was just my name. Then in college I use my .edu email for important things and that name gmail for non education things.</p>
<p>Yes, get a professional sounding gmail using your name. You’ll want it for job applications as well as college stuff.</p>
<p>Thank you!! I just had a new account of my own name :)</p>
<p>In terms of transitioning, I recommend either putting up an auto reply to your old email instructing people to use the new one or have gmail forward the emails to your new inbox and just reply with your new one, people will catch on eventually.</p>
<p>I did the first one cuz at the time I also wanted to unsubscribe from a whole bunch of stuff and so I didn’t want those emails coming to my new inbox.</p>