<p>I'm so glad to belong to this completely and totally bizarre discussion board. :)</p>
<p>I do respond to "molliebat" because that's how so many people parse it. And my boyfriend calls me "Miss Batmit" when he's being particularly obnoxious.</p>
<p>But note to those who have odd name spellings: using your odd name spelling in an email address confuses people.
Technique (MIT yearbook) guy: First name?
Me: Mollie.
Technique guy: Athena username?
Me: m-o-l-l-i-e-b.
Technique guy: Wow, but your first name is M-o-l-l-y?</p>
<p>...um, no. I wonder how much mail I don't get because it's addressed to mollyb?</p>
<p>no namkim... i think mollie means email* what reservations would you have of being a llama ben, as far as i can tell they have their lives set :)</p>
<p>Molliebat -> imperfect active indicative 3rd sing. If we take MIT as some bizarre accusative form..."She was civilizing MIT!" Yeah! </p>
<p>Ben: I'm glad you have reservations. Perhaps the allure of being an alpaca stops you from stepping into the Transmorphotron 4000 right away and becoming a llama? </p>
<p>Mollie, how do Athena usernames go? I've seen some with numbers in them, some just the first name, some with first letter of first name + last name, or some the other way around (like yours)...and then there's sam.mitblogs.com, who apparently has the email address <a href="mailto:spam-me@mit.edu">spam-me@mit.edu</a>. How did that happen?</p>
<p>Well, you get to pick your username -- MIT doesn't assign one to you. So long as you want the name and it hasn't been taken... it's yours.</p>
<p>You also have the option of creating a mailing list containing only your username, which works well because some people choose an Athena username that doesn't really fit them four years later when they're applying for jobs (some addresses people have... um, probably not the best idea in the world to give them to a recruiter). </p>
<p>The mailing list can be anything you want it to be -- for example, if your Athena username is <sam's username=""> and you don't want to put your MIT email address on a webpage that anybody can see, you create a mailing list called <spam-me> and all the email from your blog gets directed to a certain folder in your inbox. Voila!</spam-me></sam's></p>
<p>...and on my name -- I always liked mollis, is, e. Thought it was a nice thing to have my name mean. I prefer it infinitely to "bitter" which is the actual meaning of "Mollie" through "Mary".</p>
<p>I think most people know what MIT is, they just confuse it with ITT tech for some odd reason (probably the commercials). My friend said “that school sucks, you could do better” when I told him I wanted to go to MIT. Then he said “ohhhhh, I thought you were talking about ITT.”</p>
<p>Nothing has topped the college survey I took over the phone. The woman on the phone asked what my first choice was and when I said MIT, she responded with “What does that stand for?” and “Where is that?”.</p>