<p>So I'm a rising junior, and I'm still using the same email that I had in 6th grade. <em>cringes</em> Needless to say it's pretty tween-y, and I'm looking for a better one. I don't want to use just my name, because that seems kinda boring, and I am still a teenager, so I do want it to be kinda fun. :D I'm a big literature nerd (I'm in love with "The Great Gatsby" right now), and I'm also a huge fan of the Legend of Zelda games. I'd love to incorporate either in my email, particularly the book stuff. Any ideas??? I'd appreciate any and all help!</p>
<p>You’re only going to be a teenager for a little while longer. Think about it, do you really want to be back here four years later, complaining that your email is too “teen-y”? I imagine you need to email teachers, college admissions, employers, and volunteer coordinators soon; what impression do you want to give off?</p>
<p>An email address is just that: an address. You have plenty of other ways to express yourself that won’t eventually seem unprofessional or downright silly. So, suggestions:</p>
<p><a href="mailto:firstname.surname@gmail.com">firstname.surname@gmail.com</a>
<a href="mailto:firstinitialmiddleinitialsurname@gmail.com">firstinitialmiddleinitialsurname@gmail.com</a>
<a href="mailto:firstinitialsurnameXX@gmail.com">firstinitialsurnameXX@gmail.com</a> (where XX is a number)</p>
<p>It’s literally just an email. Doesn’t require a bunch of references to things you probably won’t like in two or three years.</p>
<p>I’m a rising junior too. Honestly, I feel like it might be a better idea to, as irlandaise said, have a more professional email. I suppose it depends more on what you would be using it for, but if it’s something that teachers, admissions, employers, and so forth will be seeing, it should be fairly simple and distinctive as your own email address. For instance, I was using mine to try and get connections with some laboratory professors. I just used first letter of last name, then first name, and the last two digits of the year I was born. Something simple like that would be great.</p>
<p>I had a terribly childish email (the same one from 6th grade) all through out high school, and I can’t tell you how relieved I was to receive an .edu email from my college. I didn’t know how to change it since it was tied to my parents’ account. Anyway, you’ll definitely want a email that sounds legitimate once you apply to colleges or need to type up a resume for a job. The other suggested emails are fine. Even though fun emails are, well,…fun, it will be far less embarrassing later if you use a professional sounding email.</p>
<p>Oh, but you could create a side email account (I use mine for junk email) with a fun name. You could use it for friends/recreational purposes and then have the professional email for everything else. I probably can’t help too much on ideas, though. I’m pretty uncreative when it comes to naming things in cool ways. (For example, I named one of my pet gerbils after a dictionary. Yup, that’s how bad it is.)</p>
<p>Edit: for grammar</p>
<p>Ditto on getting a ‘professional’ sounding email address, you can’t go wrong with something simple like ‘FirstinitialLastname@whatever’, it will identify you and look better when you start applying for jobs. Having a ‘fun’ email address like ‘hotchk22@whatever’ just does not look serious when applying for employment/grad school after you graduate.</p>