<p>Does anyone know when or how we get our McGill e-mail addresses?</p>
<p>when we register..or rather, after we register.</p>
<p>I still haven't completed the immigration forms. I sent my deposit in --but that is all at this point. The IB exams have kept me too busy to think of much else.<br>
Come Monday, I will try to complete all the add'l paperwork for McGill.</p>
<p>Among the many things you will have in your orientation materials when you get here, will be a description of how to set up your email account via minerva. You have to wait until you register for courses for this option to become available. :)</p>
<p>But I waaaant itttt! :(</p>
<p>Oh that kinda sucks because we can't register for sites like the facebook.com without a valid school address. I was hoping to get to know more McGill students there....oh well!</p>
<p>i'm confused...is McGill on facebook? I heard it wasn't, but now I don't know.</p>
<p>Mcgill is on facebook, yep. You need a .mail.mcgill.ca or .mcgill.ca address to register on it though. Patcience, grasshopper. :)
(I feel your pain though... last year, I was in the same boat.. and registering the email address was the very first thing I did once minerva let me)</p>
<p>do we get to choose whether we get a .mail.mcgill.ca or .mcgill.ca?? i like the latter one better!</p>
<p>mail.mcgill.ca is for students; </p>
<p>mcgill.ca (or, the archaec [your faculty here].mcgill.ca ie. music.mcgill.ca) is for staff.
I think there may be some different ones for computer science folks...i could be wrong, but I have seen some cs.mcgill.ca ones before that seemed to be student owned. Grad students maybe?</p>
<p>The average undergrad student, has mail.mcgill.ca though.</p>
<p>ooh just wanted to note that if you send mcgill email from the webmail, it won't be sent as @mail.mcgill.ca, so watch out for that...i think it does some po-box.mcgill or something? i use outlook express so it doesn't really affect me heh.</p>
<p>you get the email account the same day you get your id card. if i remember correctly, you get ur id and then go to the next room and they have computers where you set up ur DAS password and all for email (which you'll also need to connect to wireless on campus).</p>
<p>and that's all at the trottier building on...um...the rez move in day? you might wanna check that.</p>
<p>Its funny...I've been here over a year, and I've already managed to forget where the trottier building is... (I never had reason to go to it past orientation)</p>
<p>Thankgod they give us maps...</p>
<p>you actually get your e-mail account the day you register for classes- i'm not sure when minerva opens up for U0 kids but its probably first week of AUGUST.</p>
<p>you get ur email the day you register for classes? hmm i remember it being when you get ur id card, but maybe that's just us internationals (i'm american). i remember they had a diff line at trottier where the intls had to have our study permits and stuff with us so that they could get a copy of it and get us a health insurance card..</p>