<p>Hey guys! I was wondering if you should use your personal email address on applications for summer programs or college applications. The thing is... My email address is something like <a href="mailto:wigglyarms@hotmail.com">wigglyarms@hotmail.com</a> (not really my email, lol). It shows the quirky side of me, but at the same time, it might come off as immature O_o... What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Open up a new email account with your first name, last name, and (if necessary) year of birth. Your email address is not the place to show your quirkiness, especially to a college that is not looking for quirky.</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely make a more professional email that uses your real name and last name. It will seem very immature if you use your childhood email :)) </p>
<p>Haha, alright. I do have a few other accounts I could use, so I guess I’ll start using them more often :P…</p>
<p><a href="mailto:partyhardy247@drinkup.com">partyhardy247@drinkup.com</a> really is a bad idea - follow the advice above.</p>
<p>Instead of opening new e-mail accounts, you may set up alias or forward groups for your e-mail account. You may delete those alias or forward groups afterward. The advantage is you do not need to check multiple accounts that you may overlook/miss some message.</p>
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<p>The forwarding idea is a good one. Personally, I use altomail, so I check multiple email accounts at once without going through the hassle of checking a every one. Check it out, it’s really neat, free, and takes like 2 seconds to set up.</p>
<p>Yeah use a different email for college stuff. After a while, I got kind of annoyed with all those college emails in my inbox anyway, so separation can be a good thing</p>
<p>I made a separate email for serious matters(including first name, last name, last two years of birth year), I still use my weird one for anything else.</p>
<p>Well, on my phone, my app lets me check all my mailboxes at the same time. It’s very convenient :)…</p>
<p>As others have said, get an email specifically for colleges. I have a personal one, one for my blog, one for business, one for school/college, and one for spam. My school/college one is 14[first initial][last name]@[school].org. (I graduated in 2014 hence the 14). My professional email is [last name][first initial][middle initial]@gmail</p>
<p>So… Should I use my school-issued email or my personal professional email?</p>
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The latter. Your school issued email will likely be deactivated upon graduation, and you will want to continue to get updates from the college you will be attending.</p>
<p>@skieurope Never thought about that O_o… Mine’s pretty much my full name with my state’s abbreviations… Something like this: <a href=“mailto:johndoeca@johnwallmail.lel”>johndoeca@johnwallmail.lel</a></p>
<p>@Newdle That works. You just want to avoid whimsical.</p>
<p>I’m not real comfortable with incorporating a birth year into an email address–it might be pathway to identity theft. Better to use a few random numbers.</p>
<p>My school-issued email address has my graduation year on it, so meh .____. … I don’t use it for anything outside of school, however.</p>
<p>My brother’s email was something like “<a href="mailto:comeatmebro93@gmail.com”>comeatmebro93@gmail.com</a>"</p>
<p>i used my graduation year, 2014, in my college application email address plus my name.</p>