<p>...with <a href="mailto:firstname_lastname@harvard.edu">firstname_lastname@harvard.edu</a> or something?</p>
<p>if there is one, is the email closely monitored like the public school email addresses?</p>
<p>It's not necessarily in the format you've written...it might be initials or something...and it is @fas.harvard.edu. You won't get it till May when you send in your deposit. </p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>do you get to keep it forever, or is it just the 4 years at the college?</p>
<p>and how is it, compared to gmails, yahoo, and such?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>you get a different one once you graduate....it is a @post.harvard.edu.
Umm...I still like gmail more but a lot of official mail is sent to your harvard email. You could always do mail forwarding though.</p>
<p>would you still be able to access the fas one? i want to know if it's a good idea to permanently change email addresses for, say, credit card companies if the email expires after a while</p>
<p>Innocentstalker, in my humble opinion- wait, screw that, this is just FACT- the Harvard email system sucks.</p>
<p>Since I got an address that had apparently been used before, I get about five or six pieces of spam a day (and the Harvard email system has no spam filter). It has a limited inbox that will fills up after about a year, it goes down every few weeks for a few hours or a day (which, if it happens at the wrong time, can mess up your attempts to hand in essays or projects- REALLY frustrating). The interface is difficult to navigate and pretty slow, and sometimes gives random error messages. It has problems where it sometimes doesn't mark read mail as having been read... After I got spoiled by gmail, I just find this system really, really lousy.</p>
<p>I stick with gmail for almost everything. I use the Harvard email system to check official mail (from deans, school government, whatever), as well as a few classes.</p>
<p>And, yeah, you can't access the fas one after you graduate.</p>
<p>oh wow, you would THINK that they have a top-notch email system...</p>