Good Advice @ Texas Tech: An Advising Blog

I know it is impolite to scream at people in all caps online, but you’ll have to accept my apologies because this is REALLY IMPORTANT!

In this day and age, email is the easiest and most cost-effective method of communication between the university and its students, so when anything happens that may affect those lines of communication, it is a big deal.

For those who set up their email prior to April of 2007, when many students logged-in to check their personal email accounts (i.e., gmail, yahoo, hotmail), they found email forwarded there from their official TTU email account (first.last@ttu.edu).  As of Monday, January 7, this will no longer work. 

As of January 7, 2008, at 8:00 am, for a student to check their official TTU email account, they must go to http://mail.ttu.edu and log in there with their eRaider username and password.

Besides important communications from their academic advisors, students will find the TechAnnounce messages that contain valuable information from all over campus, notifications about payments due, messages from their instructors, scholarship announcements, and even warnings about parking tickets, fines, and being dropped from classes for non-payment.

The bottom line here is that all students should check their TTU email accounts regularly, and beginning on Monday, all students will have to use http://mail.ttu.edu to do so.

Happy New Year,
JRB.