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Tipster Stephen Wang informs Bwog that Alma Mater is going to be offering permanent email addresses for its illustrious, tech-savvy alums and seniors. Users will get to choose their own display name (!) and the emails will be able to “enjoy all the features of Google’s Gmail
service while maintaining a Columbia address.” So a lot like what every current student has been doing for four years.
However, our emailing tipster already sends word of a technological slip-up: “You couldn’t sign up on the first day it was available… because it was broken, already.”
UPDATE: Seniors: nab your first name as your display name before someone else gets it first! Ready, set, go.
UPDATE 10:13 PM: Commenter reports that lee.bollinger@caa.columbia.edu. is taken. No word yet on the.butler.marxist, princeton.sucks, et al. Hurry, hurry!
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@damn Douchbag.McGee@caa.columbia.edu was rejected. It’s a FAMILY NAME, censoristas!
@... caa.columbia.edu?
why not alumni.columbia.edu or alum.columbia.edu? that seems to be the pattern that practically every other university on the planet uses…
(and yes, i know it stands for columbia alumni association… the point still stands. for anyone who doesn’t know columbia jargon, caa means nothing.)
@also it’s one letter away from caca
@SEAS kid I can assure you, we don’t spend nearly as much time working as CC kids do.
Problem set = 2 hours of hard work
Reading/Paper = 4 hours of brainless work
Pick your poison.
@uh..my point was that seas kids do seem to be working longer/harder
and i’ve taken some seas classes—if you spend two hours on a legitimately hard problem set in a seas class you’re either going to pull a 2.3 or you’re einstein
@question how do I log into my customized name account? I seem to only be able to log into my uni@caa account.
@barnard girls can’t get it….hahahahahaha
@Armin Rosen The Butler Marxist has a name, y’know. I even tried talking to him once: http://bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3732
@EAL Whoever takes princeton.sucks@caa.columbia.edu would earn an automatic A in my book for school spirit.
@cc08 got my first name! awesome! i love you bwog.
to #7, barnard students can’t get this because it’s the COLUMBIA alumni association :)
@Anonymous can barnard seniors get it to?
@hrm Get it to what? Jump? Roll over? Shake?
@Anonymous im sorry asshole…
can they get the address in addition to cc seniors/alums?
@ignore the moron
some alumni apparently haven’t graduated out of a mindset of pettiness and arrogance
@or... Or they are still bitter about the fact that Barnard chicks don’t work nearly as hard as Columbia students and yet graduate with the same degree.
@as a cc student for 4 years I can guarantee the barnard students spent just as much time procrastinating until their papers were due or hitting the heights/1020/etc 4 nights a week as their cc counterparts
seas kids on the other hand…
@um.. i was able to register first day
(just set it to forward to my regular email)
also lee.bollinger@caa.columbia.edu is now taken
@senior just snagged my first name @caa.columbia.edu awwwwwwww yeaahhhhhh
Thank you, Bwog.
@yay woohoo 2 new email addresses! Thanks, Columbia Alumni Association! This must be where my tuition is going…free Columbia Gmail for life!
@yup i’m a junior and can’t register.
way to get my hopes up, bwog.
@hi... can current students do this? wouldn’t it be alumni only who could register an email address?
(I couldn’t register one, it said some sort of error with my uni being in the wrong family code or something)
@ZvS It appears you must be a senior.