<p>I'm just wondering when we get them! I'm so excited.</p>
<p>ahh, i see you have chosen duke over LA, wise choice. Anyways, i sent my stuff on may 1st and have yet to receive a reply from duke.</p>
<p>^Haha, yeah. Now when I look back, I look like an idiot for considering UCLA. The only reason I did anyways was because it was cheap and I liked the location.</p>
<p>I had a long talk with my parents, and we decided on Duke :]</p>
<p>I got my NetID and info on my email account yesterday in the mail.</p>
<p>Your email accounts should already be active. At the moment though, you might not have access to your NetID accounts. </p>
<p>However, you can use your email alias which is <a href=“mailto:firstname.lastname@duke.edu”>firstname.lastname@duke.edu</a>, you just won’t be able to check your email for a bit. </p>
<p>To verify, just go to <a href=“http://www.duke.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.duke.edu</a>, and search for your name in the search box. A directory listing with your email and cell phone # should pop up on the results page on the right.</p>
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Not always - some people’s first and last names match up with other people’s (especially in the case of Asians with Westernized first names and common last names), so Duke will add a number at the end or a middle initial.</p>
<p>John117, you will get a little paper in the mail with your NetID. Your email is your ID (seems like your initials with a number at the end) with duke.edu at the end. BUT you can also use the firstname.lastname thing too. If you want to know if you have a number at the end of it like Senator Noodles said, just search for yourself in the directory once you log in and it’ll have your email.</p>
<p>Yeah you get your netID in the mail with an arbitrary password.</p>
<p>I joined the Duke network on facebook yesterday because I finally had my email :D</p>
<p>(ps my email for example is (first initial) (middle name initial) (last initial)@duke.edu)</p>
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<p>Not all Asian immigrants legally changed their names. In fact, most Asians do not. Therefore their initial email alias will use their legal names. That’s what happened to me.</p>
<p>Umm…how do I log into my account? I have my <a href=“mailto:firstname.lastname@duke.edu”>firstname.lastname@duke.edu</a> …so how do I check my account?</p>
<p>You probably missed the part where I said you won’t be able to check it for a bit (because you don’t have your netID and password).</p>
<p>I got the mailing with my ID number in it, but it didn’t have a password, or a Duke Unique ID number, which I need when I go to the “forgot your password” link. Anyone know where I can find either this or my password?</p>
<p>not the correct mailing probably. The netID mailing should have both a password and netID which is an alphanumeric code consisting of your initials and a few numbers. Your ID number is totally different. </p>
<p>this is actually one thing that erks me about duke - too many different ID numbers. Every student has a NetID, uniqueID #, student ID #, and DukeCard # which can be a bit crazy at times. Fortunately, you usually just use your netID and uniqueID.</p>
<p>Ahhh, thanks SBR. I guess I’ll just have to be patient.</p>
<p>If you are a grad student, you’ll get yours after May 14th via snail mail.</p>
<p>Oh ok. Thanks SBR. Yeah, I see. I checked the catalog thing and it says we’ll get the ID around mid may.</p>
<p>We also got ANOTHER ID…I was confused like sg12 and tried logging in with that.</p>