<p>Does anyone know how we find out what our email address at Bates is? My friend said that there are already incoming Batesies on the Facebook.com so Im wondering how they got their email address. anyone know?</p>
<p>You can guess at it. It's the first letter of your first name and the first seven letters of your last name, followed by @bates.edu</p>
<p>It gets complicated if someone already has that email address. If so, the last letter is dropped and a number is substituted.</p>
<p>Sooo...</p>
<p>Say Brenda Glickstein is admitted. Her email address is</p>
<p><a href="mailto:bglickst@bates.edu">bglickst@bates.edu</a></p>
<p>unless someone else already has it, in which case it would be</p>
<p><a href="mailto:bglicks2@bates.edu">bglicks2@bates.edu</a></p>
<p>and if someone has that</p>
<p><a href="mailto:bglicks3@bates.edu">bglicks3@bates.edu</a></p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>The problem is that in order to register for facebook, you need to be able to access mail at your college email address. Right now I dont know how to do that.</p>
<p>There's only one Batesie on thefacebook.com, class of 2009. He's a transfer from January. No new students there yet. Don't sweat it.</p>
<p>Thanks bman</p>
<p>Can Bman or another current bates student, make a username and password for Class of '09 so they could access the facebook and see members of the other classes ;ex '08</p>
<p>Nooooooooooo...the network people don't take too kindly to that...</p>