What does email address mean?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>If my email address is </p>

<p><a href="mailto:jjm2@cornell.edu">jjm2@cornell.edu</a></p>

<p>does that mean that I am the second person with initials JJM in the history of Cornell?</p>

<p>Also, do I keep my cornell email address forever even after i graduated?</p>

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<p>I was kind of wondering the same thing…mine is apb78. I was hoping that it would be something more professional, like <a href=“mailto:firstname.lastname@cornell.edu”>firstname.lastname@cornell.edu</a></p>

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<p>Nope - it’s random. I know this because I asked someone at CIT.
They told me to go to the Cornell directory and start searching by playing with the numbers. You’ll find a lot of “search returned 0 results” coming up.</p>

<p>There is a way for undergraduates to get the tenured professor alias thing.</p>

<p>Where your email will read <a href=“mailto:yourname.surname@cornell.edu”>yourname.surname@cornell.edu</a>.</p>

<p>Either way, there’s the C-mail dealie they’re doing now. I think that’ll replace their squirrelmail/kerberos nonsense.</p>

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<p>awww we dont get to choose it?? oh that sucks. i wanted something like lastname.firstname too. oh well.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it’s sort of weird.</p>

<p>Then again, Cornell has a MASSIVE number of people to assign university emails to…it’s alright.</p>

<p>I’ll probably only have my webmail address for another few months…(after only 2 years…<em>sob</em>), but I’m gonna do the C-mail switch anyway, just to see.</p>

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<p>What is the “C-mail dealie”? xD</p>

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<p>[CIT:</a> Cmail](<a href=“Welcome | IT@Cornell”>Welcome | IT@Cornell)</p>

<p>^ Esta.</p>

<p>It’s a good thing too…the Webmail page…welll…<a href=“https://cuweblogin.cit.cornell.edu/cuwl-cgi/login2.cgi?sessID=pend115543574&reason=noCookie&allowGuest=false&origURL=http://webmail.cornell.edu/migration/reroute.php&CustMsg=&AltUrl=[/url]”>https://cuweblogin.cit.cornell.edu/cuwl-cgi/login2.cgi?sessID=pend115543574&reason=noCookie&allowGuest=false&origURL=http://webmail.cornell.edu/migration/reroute.php&CustMsg=&AltUrl=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>as you can see…(and if you were to login you could see better)…it’s a little…‘oldish’ looking.</p>

<p>C-mail looks like a much better alternative.</p>

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<p>Ohhh, sorry, I misunderstood. I’ve already set up my C-mail account, and being a Gmail user already, I love how everything is organized. I guess I thought that Cornell was working on some sort of new program that would allow students to choose the <a href=“mailto:yourname.surname@cornell.edu”>yourname.surname@cornell.edu</a> address.</p>

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<p>Wait is there a way to get the <a href=“mailto:yourname.surname@cornell.edu”>yourname.surname@cornell.edu</a> email?</p>

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<p>That’s called Cornell’s optional Email Alias.</p>

<p>The website says it’s only for people with ‘academic appointment’ but this one girl I know has a bf in CIT…and she has an alias email as an undergrad.</p>

<p>If you google :Cornell webmail alias, you’ll get on their site…notice there’s a space for “requests” I think that’s how they do it for undergrads. You’d need an ‘in’ though.</p>

<p>Otherwise it’s just regular C-mail!
Which is pretty nice.</p>

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<p>Ahhh, gotcha. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Just a side note: There’s a glass/cup from Robert Purcell floating around at Appel.</p>

<p>The first time I saw it was summer of 07. The last time I saw it was Monday.</p>

<p>It’s a little bit bigger than all the other ones.</p>