<p>its just a temporary email for college right? i made mine <a href=“mailto:vietsta@ucla.edu”>vietsta@ucla.edu</a> :)</p>
<p>■■■■. what the hell?! go make a ****ing alias</p>
<p>no. it’s not temporary. it’s FOREVER. did you not read your instructions?! you will be using it to communicate with your peers, professors, TAs, and anyone associated with ucla in some way</p>
<p>I really don’t think your profs and TAs will give much thought to what your e-mail address is. Just make a more professional Gmail address for any resume building or whatnot.</p>
<p>Are you kidding me? That’s a joke. It’s pretty stupid to make something like “<a href=“mailto:vietsta@ucla.edu”>vietsta@ucla.edu</a>” regardless if he’s going to communicate with his TAs/professors.</p>
<p>Sorry but people pass judgments all the time. It’s safer to use your first initial last name or whatever combination than making something silly with your school e-mail address.</p>
<p>"■■■■. what the hell?! go make a ****ing alias</p>
<p>no. it’s not temporary. it’s FOREVER. did you not read your instructions?! you will be using it to communicate with your peers, professors, TAs, and anyone associated with ucla in some way"</p>
<p>Was that directed my way too? I’m still getting responses for both sides.</p>
<p>Eh, I agree with cambridgeguy. Sure, so your prof may pass an initial judgment based on your e-mail (i.e. “hmm, vietsta? what the eff?”) if he/she is rather shallow. If so, then just go out to the prof and impress him/her directly.</p>
<p>alias folks. i made a stupid email initially too, because i originally went to ucla for summer school and had no idea that name would stick. now i have my alias, which is my firrst and last name separated by a period. it works fine.</p>
<p>no, what i’m saying is that we won’t use this email once we graduate from ucla. so when applying for jobs you can use a different one</p>
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<p>How about your first job, using <a href=“mailto:vietsta@ucla.edu”>vietsta@ucla.edu</a> on the top of your resume? Hmm …</p>
<p>Yours isn’t that bad Hermione. Make an alias anyway.</p>
<p>lol my name is really common too. UCSD makes your email address for you, so I’m curious to what they would’ve picked for me <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>I also agree with cambridgeguy. Plus you don’t really need to use your ucla email address to contact TAs/professors. I get all my mail sent to my gmail account and email from there too. Besides, most email places show your name when you send an email instead of your actual email address.</p>
<p>Have you tried something like hernandezstephanie or shernandez?</p>
<p>Also, engineers get a @engineering.ucla.edu email address</p>
<p>Should I make an alias for the professors?</p>
<p>If it makes you feel this insecure, then you probably should.</p>
<p>UCLA email addresses are now lifetime, I believe. I like having it kind of official being that it’s from UCLA. It’s not like people see a UCLA email and expect it to be some kind of spam. That being said, it’s not really neccessary to use it when talking to profs or anything. I know plenty of people who use their Gmail or Yahoo accounts to talk to profs if that’s their primary email. Personally, I kinda like having a UCLA account for official type of things (school stuff, online purchases, credit card type of stuff) and a separate account for more frivolous things (I use Yahoo for email lists, fantasy leagues, stuff like that).</p>
<p>This is kind of a silly question…but how do you make a UCLA email account? Is it the same as your UCLA logon id?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.bol.ucla.edu%5B/url%5D”>http://www.bol.ucla.edu</a> ?!??!?!</p>
<p>Oh I see…so I’m guessing it’s probably necessary for me to send in my SIR and become an actual student, huh? :P</p>
<p>Right now I haven’t done all those things…so that’s probably why I can’t access webmail.</p>