RIT

RIT Alum Email Address

Daniel, , , ,

So I’m pretty anal.

I didn’t sign up for Facebook until about a year ago. I had long since graduated from RIT. Facebook started out as a social network for Harvard students, then it expanded to other colleges. For a while registration required a .edu email address. Even now, in order to identify yourself to others as a student or former student of a particular educational institution, you need to verify ownership of an email address from that school’s domain.

I’m sure I’ve written posts in the past about my RIT email address. I couldn’t wait for it to be turned off. But now that I’m on Facebook, I want that address just so I can identify myself as an RIT alum. Enter: solution.

I think saw a link that pointed to this in Gmail, but I forget, and it’s unimportant. I feel like this is way under-advertised. If you go to https://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/RIT/, you can get yourself an email address @alum.rit.edu. Get it hooked up, go into Facebook, identify yourself as an RIT student, bam.

RIT Alum Email Address

Fun With VAX

Daniel

Brown called me on the phone yesterday, and we talked briefly about how I still have an RIT account and full user priveleges. A few minutes ago I Telnetted in to rit.edu for kicks. It told me that mail will no longer be emailed to my account because I’m over the storage quota. This happened (at least) once before, and I think the system deleted all my messages. Right now I have over 5,000 messages in my Inbox. I am fairly certain that every single message is spam. It’s not even worth the time to look for messages from real people. I mean, I used to have a story at the really old page about how if anyone were to email me at the old address, I would never respond and that person would think I’m a prick. I posted that story like eighteen months ago. And it’s still an issue.

So anyway, back to today. I was poking around VAX when I found:

Note: “SET FORWARD” at the “EMAIL>” prompt is now obsolete! For mail
preferences changes, including changing your mail forwarding, please
visit:

http://start.rit.edu

Of course, in VAX, the URL wasn’t a link itself, because it’s Telnet, not a web browser. Although you can use LYNX in VAX … hmm … Anyway, I checked it out. It’s really not bad. It’s got a lot of information and services, and it replaces and expands upon the old site (I’ll be damned if I can remember the URL) that you had to type in to register a computer on RIT’s network. It expands upon that site with some account management features. Seeing as how I’ve been stuck in this 23-months-and-counting grace period, and I’ve gotten probably 15,000 spams, I decided to check out the link to manage your mail preferences. It’s a neat page; There’s a box to change your forwarding address, a box to change your personalized address, a place to change your preferences for your listing in the campus directory.

Only problem is, it doesn’t work. I make changes to the fields, hit submit, and get an error message. After closer review I think it’s missing some radio buttons. Oh well. Not like I go there anymore.

Fun With VAX

RIT Account

Daniel

My RIT account should have been deleted by now. The ICS Helpdesk told me that accounts last two quarters after you were last registered for classes. Let’s see … I took my last class at RIT in the Spring 2002 quarter, we have since seen the Summer and Fall quarters come and go … yet my web page is still up, and my RIT email address still functions.

It’s the email that really chaps my ass. I’ve told everyone I care about that I changed my address and I’ve changed my address for all the subscriptions I care about. Yet, on the chance that I forgot someone or something important, I check my RIT email every day. And I check it with webmail, which is slow as hell. If the address were inactive, at least someone would get an error message if they sent a message to it. As it is now, the message will be received successfully, and if I don’t check, it will go unread. The hypothetical sender would have no conclusion to reach other than that I am a thoughless prick.

So I check webmail every day.

RIT Account

528

Daniel

Just now I was parsing the folders I have on Grace. I had forgotten all about my web page for 528 – Writing for Interactive Digital Media. Heck, I almost forgot I took the class. The last time I was up at RIT, Lewis and Smiz and I were talking about classes and one of them mentioned 4-hour, once-a-week classes. I commented that I was glad I had never taken such a class. Lewis then pointed out to me that, in the Spring of 2002, I took 528 with him and Morash. I believe it was 6 PM to 9:30 PM on what … Wednesday? I remember that on the last day of class, our instructor seemed to think that Morash had stopped attending after the first week.

Okay, I’m rambling. Where was I? My 528 page. I think the main page is funny, and actually looks okay, design-wise. I also like the Officer Profiles page of Ultra Audio, my fake company.

In other news, the DC area job search hasn’t turned up much. Employers want experienced workers. I just got out of college. Employers want top secret clearance. I had interim secret clearance. So it’s kind of slow. Hopefully something will turn up.

528

Time Flies

Daniel

Good lord. On 30 May 2002 somebody from the US Senate checked out this site. However, the fact that said person only looked once probably means that they stumbled across it randomly, so I am probably not the target of a Congressional investigation.

When the F did it get to be June? I graduated (sort of) about a week ago. Where did time go? I remember when a bright-eyed 18 year old was dropped off by his parents at Nathaniel Rochester Hall in September 1998, a little scared and a little excited. Of course, when I got back up to my room Kyle Prey was my roommate, but that’s another story. I’ve got to take four classes this summer to finish of my credit requirements, and then it’s out into the real world. I haven’t decided if I’m going to continue posting to Historical Context. I’m fairly concerned that, while in Allegany, nothing worth noting will happen. Nothing worth noting ever really happens in Allegany, NY. Tomorrow (or rather, later today) I’m going to pack up whatever I have left in 233 University Commons and drive it back to A-Town (that’s slang for Allegany, if you’re wondering). It’ll be good to spend some time in C-Monk (slang for Chipmonk). I didn’t live at home last summer, but Western NY sometimes has some pretty nice summer weather, and it’ll be nice to see it one last time.

I will miss the people I’ve met while here at RIT. I would list them, but I’d almost certainly leave someone off the list. But I won’t forget them. From 8125 NRH8 to 343 and 366 Racquet Club to 42 Weldon Street to Rustic Village to 233 University Commons … it’s been fun. – DP

Time Flies

Missed Class

Daniel

Lewis and Morash just gave me shit for like an hour. So what if I missed class? I was going to go, but I just couldn’t keep my eyes open. I was trying … I pounded coffee all day today. Like I said, I don’t think coffee works with my system anymore.

Missed Class

The Test

Daniel

The test wasn’t bad at all. Our prof made half the class change seats before we started the test, and I ended up sitting next to the only hot girl in the class. I’ll take that.

The Test

Fun Day

Daniel

Today I’ve got a test at noon in OS Scripting and a paper due for Writing for Interactive Digital Media at 6. WTF? I hate school. I got up at 8 am today. Not as early as yesterday, but still pretty early. Surprisingly, I’m not really too tired. Surprising because yesterday was Eric’s birthday, and the festivities lasted pretty late into the night. I am still a little drowsy, so I brewed up a pot of coffee. I’m just about done with my second cup. After I finish the coffee I’ll pick up where I left off making a one page teacher endorsed cheat sheet for the test. Then, after the test, I’ve got to come back and work on that damn paper. I hate school.

Fun Day