<p>When should I get my NU email address if I accepted my admission april 28th? All I've received from NU is the receipt for my tuition deposit and I'm a little concerned.</p>
<p>i havent gotten anything either i guess northwestern doesnt do that....i havent received housing information either which is starting to get annoying.</p>
<p>i'm pretty sure you should be able to create your email address using the admitted students portal.
that's the nifty little site where they posted your admissions decision, and i activated my email using it.
regarding housing, no one has gotten anything for that yet, though it should be out soon.</p>
<p>Ditto awesomeness5 -- if you log into CAESAR</a> - Web Access to the Student Enterprise System with your NetID and password you can create your address from there. (<a href="mailto:Yourname2012@u.northwestern.edu">Yourname2012@u.northwestern.edu</a>) </p>
<p>After you create it you can log in at [url=<a href="http://www.northwestern.edu/webmail/%5DNorthwestern">http://www.northwestern.edu/webmail/]Northwestern</a> WebMail<a href="It's%20actually%20through%20gmail">/url</a></p>
<p>I made my email as soon i checked online and realized i was accepted!!!
There is a link near the top in the CAESAR thing where u checked whether or not u got in.</p>
<p>I was kind of sad to find out that you couldn't choose your own email address. (But I suppose, by doing <a href="mailto:YourName2012@u.northwestern.edu">YourName2012@u.northwestern.edu</a>, you can send emails without asking ppl what their email is)</p>
<p>Does every student in NU have their name + their graduation year as their email address? or is it just our class?</p>
<p>i think that email is created by default. then the site asks if you want to create a nickname, so you don't have to use the <a href="mailto:firstnamelastnameclass@">firstnamelastnameclass@</a>.. format. you can have up to 2 nicknames, if i remember correctly, so that can be <a href="mailto:anything@u.northwestern.edu">anything@u.northwestern.edu</a> and all emails will still come to the same account..</p>
<p>I made my e-mail already -- can I still choose a nickname? If so, link please.</p>
<p>Here is what NUIT says:</p>
<p>Can I change my @u.northwestern.edu account username after I have activated my account?</p>
<h2>No. Your account username cannot be changed. You have the option to create up to two nicknames for your account. Give your nickname to your friends to use as your e-mail address if you prefer. You can also reply to e-mail messages from your nickname address. </h2>
<p>(Basically, a nickname is your new email address, if I understand correctly...you can pretend <a href="mailto:YourName2007@u.nu">YourName2007@u.nu</a> doesn't exist, and just have people send mail to <a href="mailto:Nickname@u.nu">Nickname@u.nu</a> instead.)</p>
<p>Here's more info:</p>
<p>What is a nickname?</p>
<p>A nickname is an additional e-mail address. For example, a nickname for <a href="mailto:JoeWildcat2007@u.northwestern.edu">JoeWildcat2007@u.northwestern.edu</a> could be <a href="mailto:joew@u.northwestern.edu">joew@u.northwestern.edu</a>. You can send and receive mail sent to your assigned account name or any of your account nicknames.</p>
<p>How do I create and manage nicknames?</p>
<p>You will be given the ability to add a single nickname when you activate your account. After activation, you have the option of creating and modifying up to two nicknames by visiting the @u.northwestern.edu Account Management page. (<a href="https://umail.northwestern.edu/manage/%5B/url%5D">https://umail.northwestern.edu/manage/</a>)</p>
<p>After creating nickname(s) for your account, you must add the nicknames as new e-mail accounts. Then you can send mail from any nickname account by selecting the nickname from the dropdown list in the "From" field when composing an e-mail.</p>
<p>Your account nicknames will not be automatically displayed in the Online Directory. If you want to publish your @u.northwestern.edu nicknames in the Online Directory, add the information to the "Other" field in the following format: <a href="mailto:joew@u.northwestern.edu">joew@u.northwestern.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:joe-wildcat@u.northwestern.edu">joe-wildcat@u.northwestern.edu</a>.</p>
<p>IMPORTANT: You cannot log in to your @u.northwestern.edu account with a nickname.</p>
<p>How many nicknames can I have?</p>
<p>You can have up to two nicknames at any given time. You also have the ability to delete existing nicknames and replace them with newer ones.</p>