<p>Does anyone know when we find out what companies or platoons we are in for the summer. I thought I heard you find out sometime in early june, but i also heard you don't hear till you get there.</p>
<p>last year they knew about 2 weeks before i-day (i know, because 2 08ers gave me their mailing addresses before they went off to annapolis)</p>
<p>Did the Academy mail them something or did they have to call someone to find out?</p>
<p>i think the academy mailed them the information.</p>
<p>I still haven't recieved my platoon assignment for the summer. I'm not that concerned about it, but it would be nice to give people my address. anyone get theirs yet? Should I call up and check out what's up?</p>
<p>Last year's letter was dated 16 June. If things go as last year, expect your notification shortly.
CM</p>
<p>We will find out what companies and platoon we're in on I-day.</p>
<p>Has your family received your mailing address? Last year the notice was dated 16 June. The platoon and company was indicated in the mailing address.
CM</p>
<p>I called the academy today. They said that they mailed our platoons and companies to us today... so we should receive before the week is up</p>
<p>ahh i'm leaving for maryland on friday. i hope it comes before then, or i'll have to leave my dad all of my friends' emails so he can give them my address!</p>
<p>It's been recommended on the USNA parents' listserve, that plebes/mids maintain a separate email account for personal/family communications; reserving their USNA email for academic/professional communications. </p>
<p>Six days till I-day! :eek: :) :confused: :D</p>
<p>Just a thought...we were told that as well (08 parent). We found that if we didn't send it to the usna.edu account, it didn't get read. Turns out that there just isn't time to read multiple email accounts. Mind you, even if we DID send it to the usna.edu account, it still didn't get read. Guess where we were on the totem pole?!</p>
<p>My mid requested that personal email be sent to his personal account. His "official" email account is too full of other official communications. He did a remarkable job of responding to personal email promptly. Remember, you will not have your computer until reform. He also was available to IM, mostly on Sunday AM. Most other times he was just too busy.
CM</p>
<p>"It's been recommended on the USNA parents' listserve" . . . </p>
<p>Let's use some common sense folks. It you've LIVED at your place of employment, don't you think you would probably want ALL of your e-mail routed to you "@myjob.com" account? Your job account is probably open every moment you are in front of your desk, so would you really want to switch over to your hotmail account for "other" e-mail?</p>
<p>DeepThroat</p>
<p>PS--YOUNG ADULTS DON'T ALWAYS ANSWER E-MAILS FROM THEIR PARENTS--SHHHH!!!</p>
<p>I would imagine that USNA has established Internet and electronic mail guidelines and procedures for the mids to follow. I dont know if using USNA email accounts for personal communication is considered acceptable use of a publicly owned and operated communication tool. I assume that network storage areas are treated like student lockers or employee work areas. On the other hand, my daughter is pretty happy that IM is allowed at USNAnot that she will have any time to use it!</p>
<p>What, mids dont open email from their parents??? Oh, thats a real surprise ;)it already happens at home </p>
<p>Of course, a mid just might open an email from their parents if it had a provocative subject line, e.g., "I put $1,000 in your bank account." Any other high interest subject lines?</p>
<p>DT: are you suggesting that you don't respond to your parents' messages?</p>
<p>hey, word on the streets from current mids is the smartest thing you can do is not use your school email address for personal communication...not because you don't want to talk to your parents or anything...but because there are so many day to day emails sent out from your company and the academy that if your academy inbox gets too crouded you might miss an important email...not too big a deal if you only give your email to your parents...but it's best to get in the mindset of just leaving your academy account for academy emails.</p>
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<li> "are you suggesting that you don't respond to your parents' messages?"</li>
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<p>Of course not. I respond to all e-mails that I receive using my self-assigned "priority" system. Under the system, "e-mail from parents/no death involved" has a response period of 60 days, extendable to 120 days under "extenuating" circumstances (as determined by me).</p>
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<li> "I dont know if using USNA email accounts for personal communication is considered acceptable use of a publicly owned and operated communication tool."</li>
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<p>If that were true, it would make it difficult to check ANY e-mail account from a government computer.</p>
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<li> "you might miss an important email..."
If anyone gets an important e-mail (or if any current mids have ever recieved an important e-mail) be sure to post about it here, because I kept a running count of the important e-mails I received at USNA and never got past zero.<br></li>
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<p>DeepThroat</p>
<p>dt:<br>
1. I guess it's a good thing that sol for probate is one year in most jurisdictions.
2. I am unable to access my personal email from my computer at work (major educational organization)
3. Things change.</p>
<p>The Mids can have personal email on their school accounts. They do get alot of email, but they are supposed to be checking it multiple times during the day so the danger of getting too overloaded is small. It's more of a problem if a Mid isn't checking rather than who he's getting mail from. Believe me, most of them don't have the time to go through multiple email accounts. Once AC year starts, let your Mid decide what he/or she wants to do about email. Ours asked us to just use his school account because that was the one he checked.</p>