@utexas.edu email

Longbomb

Longbomb

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So with football season over, I decided to go ahead and get working on an advanced degree. One thing I needed to do was submit a transcript from UT Austin.

So I went to the utexas.edu website today to request it. You can do it all online now vs last time when I called someone. Talking? How primitive.

However in order to do the online stuff, I needed to access my UT EID. I hadn't done this since I graduated in 1997. This meant I'm old enough that I couldn't recover a password by any automated means, so I had to resort to *gasp* call someone. I spoke to a supervisor who asked me 20 questions to confirm my identity, and got a temporary password. Upon successfully logging in, I was greeted with a message, "Your last successful login was @1:10PM on 06/05/1997."

This put a smile on my face as I imagined the 23 year old version of me in Austin logging out of my account for the last time before I graduated. I read it in glee to the tech support guy I was still talking to. He thought it was an error...I was like, no I'm really that old.

It had my old UT email address on file which was an @mail.utexas.edu account and I asked if it still existed in some way. He said that was an outdated mail system, but that Alumni can get an @utexas.edu email address. This is the main reason I'm posting is to share this information.

I got myself a shiny new @utexas.edu email address today! Google administrates it, so it's exactly the same as Gmail, but with the @utexas.edu address. Plus it's only for UT students and alumni so not every username in existence is taken already.

Maybe this is old news, but it was new to me, and I wanted to pass it on. Enjoy!
 
It doesn't take much to get you excited.
Boy, I wish I had your disposition
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Longbomb, that put a smile on my face because I graduated in 1997 as well. I think we were the first students to have email accounts. Takes me back when we had to go to the Smurf and log in to wait for a computer just to check my email. It seems so primitive compared to being able to check email on my smart phone or my laptop. I'll have to see if my address still exists.
 
I got mine about a month ago, but never had one while at Texas as I'm even older and predate a student email system. My first email account was established at my office in 1993 and I still have it.

The @utexas.edu accounts are available to all UT alumni and accessible through Google mail, but have a special tower logo so are distinct from regular google.com addresses. It also gives you access to Google docs, calendar, and other features as Google is trying to make some serious inroads into other market segments.
 
Definitely put a smile on my face reading this. I knew I had one b/c my kids told me about it. (Me-69; Them-01/05)
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Hook'em!!!
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I caught myself referencing the UGL a couple times and had to check myself to see if I was remembering correctly.

I remembered the library next to the tower as the UGL (Undergraduate Library). But all the maps say Flawn Academic Center, which also sounded familiar to me.

Upon searching the internets
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, it looks like both are correct.
The name was changed in the 80s, but apparently the UGL moniker was still being used at least somewhat when I was there, as that's what I remember.

I also found this tidbit
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funny. I created one of those email accounts earlier this year when I saw they were offered for texas exes for free now. Last time I had to get a transcript I had to go to the first floor of the tower and request it.
 
Jeez...Now I really feel old. Last time I used a computer at UT, I had to stand in line to wait for access to the card punch machine.
 
I remember that!!

"Welcome to TEX.....the telephone enrollment exchange for The University of Texas at Austin.....if you're a Freshman....please hang up....we will automatically call you when all of the good classes and times are taken. Thank you and Good luck"
 
Anybody have a recording of TEX? Is Bill Livingston still around? If so, I would like for him to comment on Aggy leaving the Big XII for the SEC. "Good bye, and Good Luck!"
 
Yes! You'd type in your class number and there'd be a 2 second pause where you're whispering "please, please, please" only to hear, "that class is full".

Wasn't near as bad as the first UT ID I got. Stood in line for about 4 hours outside of Gregory to get my picture made. It was about 95 degrees as well.
 
The domain names texasexes.com, .org and .net are owned by several of the ex student associations. Several years ago I bought the domain name texasex.net. I couldn't believe it wasn't taken. My wife, son and I all graduated from UT. Our email addresses are our first names in front of the domain, short and sweet.
 
got my @utexas.edu email a few months ago. Now, my @alumni.utexas.net forwards my emails to my @utexas.edu account.
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Just remember that when you sign up, you are agreeing that Google can read the mail you send and receive. Of course, they claim that only robots will be reading the mail....
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If you mention that you like to ski, you will get online ads for every ski resort west of the Pecos. If you mention that you like to travel, you will hear from cruise lines, travel companies, et al.

And just think about the ads you will receive if you mention you like cohabitation!!

If you don't mind receiving the ads, the email program is a good deal - but some people might look at this as an invasion of privacy, and might want to explore other options.
 
Knoxville-Horn you perfectly described the TEX experience. Nothing worse than hearing "this class is full" but there was also nothing like the relief of hearing "this class has been added" .

I also used to hate when your registration window would be early in the morning. Nothing worse than getting up early to find out you didn't get a class you wanted.
 
i used to sweat when I heard "enter the 5 digit unique code of the c ourse you would like added". it only gave you 3 repeats while you were searching for another course. if you weren't fast enough you would get disconnected and had to call back and start over.
 
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