<p>To be honest I'm pissed and stressed at how EVERYTHING is notified via EMAIL in my high school. Like Och, there's a university counseling, a meeting this week, a class debate (COMPULSORY) this week, </p>
<p>ALL THROUGH EMAIL</p>
<p>Is College life anywhere like this? Or even more insane in terms of Email Usage. Thx</p>
<p>Yeah, pretty much everything is is through email. Your university/college will give you a .edu email address, and that’s how you’ll communicate with all your profs and with important places like financial aid and housing. The school will also email official news and stuff like that. </p>
<p>In the end, it’s not too bad. There’s really no other way to communicate with every single student. I have my email account synced on my Gmail app on my phone, and that makes it easier. All I really need to do is read my emails, and unless it requires some super long reply, I can just use my phone to reply. </p>
<p>Unless you give your email out to student orgs or LinkedIn, you won’t get too many emails (although some profs go crazy with it and email you almost every other day, but usually they just send out important stuff) </p>
<p>How would you prefer they communicate? Snail mail? Texts? Email is an efficient way to manage and communicate with groups. Like @harvestmoon said, if you don’t give your email out to other organizations, you’ll only get important emails. And most schools also have bulletin boards used for individual classes, like Moodle, so your profs may do a lot of posting to Moodle instead of emailing. Depends on the prof.</p>
<p>Everything. I woke up at 730 and already had 32 emails this morning. </p>
<p>Grow up and check your email. It’s part of your job description as a student.</p>
<p>Why does this bother you? How would you prefer that they communicate with you?</p>
<p>Better get used to it. Odds are that you’ll also need to communicate via email on the job, as well.</p>
<p>Email is used frequently. I get perhaps 20 emails a day from professors, administrators, or representatives that I am in communication with. </p>
<p>You will be using it. </p>
<p>At university - and in your later career (almost without exception) - you will be expected to check your email regularly. At least until something better comes along and is adopted by institutions. </p>
<p>You can choose not to check your email. By doing so, you communicate immaturity and a lack of professionalism. You will miss out on potentially important information, such as professors letting you know that you handed in the incorrect assignment but that they will accept the correct problem set if you get it to them by the next class or that you have won an award at the school research expo or that Friday’s 8 AM class is cancelled (all real examples from my emails to students today). </p>
<p>Too bad for you if you don’t hand in that homework or pick up your cash prize or get up three hours earlier than you needed to on Friday.</p>
<p>Why are you so against email being used, anyway? It’s the most reliable and efficient form of communication.I check my email practically every day and every two hours. At my university, though, professors only use email to notify students of certain things like if there’s going to be no class the next day. Otherwise, they use the Announcement system through Smartsite. </p>
<p>No it’s all done via smoke signals and drummer boys. </p>
<p>E-mail is a huge deal. I check it like 20 times a day.</p>
<p>My kids used their .edu address only for school communications, and had their gmail or yahoo accounts for friends. That way they could find “official” messages more quickly. And yes, they check the e-mail accounts several times a day, every day. the colleges are also using text messages for weather alerts or other campus alerts.</p>