<p>just wondering, when do freshmen get their uiuc email? I just want to use it in the facebook website... if it's already out.. where do you go to get it?</p>
<p><a href="https://login.express.cites.uiuc.edu/%5B/url%5D">https://login.express.cites.uiuc.edu/</a> there I think? its somewhere. F = first letter of first name, L= first 6 ( i think ) letters of last name:</p>
<p><a href="mailto:FLLLLLL2@uiuc.edu">FLLLLLL2@uiuc.edu</a></p>
<p>can't actually use it till after it's activated after your orientation though (if you're wondering for facebook purposes).</p>
<p>I havn't gone to orientation and mine is activated. try it.</p>
<p>i called the number on the cites page and they said your email will be able to be accessed approximately 2-3 business days after you register for classes at your orientation. When i asked if I could get mine working earlier so i could give co-workers and people at my internship an accurate way to contact me during the school year (because i dont register and attend orientation until Aug 18th) they said no.</p>
<p>i dont know what to tell you taffy, either you got lucky or cites was incorrect, but my sister and her friends were unable to access theirs until 2 days after they attended orientation.</p>
<p>i think they set up your email awhile ago, and sent a letter saying how to use it. i set mine a month or two ago. these websites kind of explain how-to:
<a href="http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/express/gettingstarted.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/express/gettingstarted.html</a>
<a href="https://www-apps.cites.uiuc.edu/password/index.html%5B/url%5D">https://www-apps.cites.uiuc.edu/password/index.html</a></p>
<p>at first i didn't know my username..so i looked in the the electronic directory <a href="http://webtools.uiuc.edu/ricker/PH%5B/url%5D">http://webtools.uiuc.edu/ricker/PH</a>
to find it..most people i know have the first letter of their first name, last name, then 2...
hope that helped</p>
<p>I forgot how I did, but I set mine up before I went to registration. I just looked around on the site and figured it out.</p>
<p>yea my email has been set up for a long time. i activated it in may, but the 1st email in my inbox from the university was dated december 2005</p>
<p>yep, looks like whoever gave me the info about having to wait till after orientation was wrong, i just tried my account again, got in fine. thanks for the pointer.</p>