LPT Request: I am a high school student taking college level classes. they gave me a university email address. what sort of stuff can i do with it that i should know about?
discounted spotify premium and amazon prime student are subscription services that come to mind! I would check out your local thrift stores if that’s your thing as well; all of the ones around me have student discounts.
Was about the say the same - has so many great discounts from laptops, headphones, clothing, food, Spotify, subscriptions, etc. so sad mine has run out now I’ve finished up at uni :(
To piggyback off of this comment - you can forward your student account mail to your regular account and essentially access UNiDAYS and student beans for life. I’ve been out of uni for a decade and still use these regularly (if FBI is watching this move along, nothing to see here). Although I guess Honey does that for you now.
Depends where you live - in NY you can get free museum visits and some other cool stuff - the university website might have a page that tells you everything you are entitled to
Fellow New Yorker here, know that in NYC you can visit a lot of museums at a "pay what you want" price if you have a valid NYS ID. I paid like $5 for the Museum of Natural History, because their entry is a "recommended price" of $25 for the basic entry
Was looking for a comment that mentioned Adobe! I'll add that 3D software like Cinema 4D and Maya have severely discounted/free options for students too.
Lots if engineering softwares you can get student versions for. I'd be willing to be lots of other disciples softwares have free student versions. All you need is the .edu email.
Try getting an account at the Samsung Education store - you have to order online, but you get up to 20% off a whole bunch of electronics (I saved several hundred on my tablet, for instance).
If you're a musician, or even if you just want to dabble in music production or recording, musical scoring, or even video editing. You can get pretty big student discounts on musical software like Ableton Live, Apple's Logic, Protools, and many video editing software.
If you do CS stuff see if you can get AWS educate or the github student developer pack. It might depend on your university for the first, but the github one gives you tons of free stuff.
You can cold-email serious professionals with questions about their work/research and have a chance they'll respond...giving you some awesome perspective and connections early in your education.
notion.so is a great tool for organisation and collaborative working. I used it to track assignments and store my notes from lectures. It has a free plan, and a premium plan but you can get the premium one for free with a uni email.
Unrelated- but if you know what you’re going to major in, try and make sure you aren’t taking any classes that won’t count towards your major if at all possible. I took i think 36~ college credits in high school. I only needed 6 social science credits for my major and ultimately graduated with 24 because I didn’t know better in high school, don’t be me
Depends entirely on your scholarship/financial situation though. You have an opportunity to be surrounded by experts in all sorts of different fields, take advantage of it as much as you can. Take classes that sound interesting, pick up a double major or a minor or two, learn another language, never know when it could be useful. What I ended up doing and using after school definitely wasn't what I planned on when I was a teenager starting college
Opposite experience here, credits towards my major mostly DIDNT count. They wanted major coursework done there. BUT general credits gave you a better class enrollment time which was very valuable.
Some public libraries also offer free online access to NYT and/or other news accesses. If you don’t already have a library card in the city you’re studying in and you’re moving there for college you can get access to even more free things than just through your campus library alone. I believe my local library accepts student ID as proof of residency to get a library card. Might be worth checking out.
First thing I did was port my emails from my student email to my regular one so that if I ever lost access to the student account I could still see the emails. This helps alot since I can still use the email for discounts even though I am no longer a student.
I remeber using Unidays.com website for tons of different discounts from retailers in all different categories and also amazon prime membership discount. Good luck!
Anything with a student discount that uses your email. Also, you should have access to the university library. Use it. Both for academic stuff and just books. There are so many more things you have access to academically and book-wise with an active university email that you wouldn't normally.
Forward all emails to a private one because when you're out of there you won't have access anymore. My husband lost access to some accounts that way...
Appreciate the don'ts. Also, don't use it for internships or job hunting. Or for any communications that you intend to keep going for more than the next few years. I'm often in a position to hire people and you'd be amazed how many fresh out of college students I have resumes for that still use their old college email addresses as the main point of contact. And more often than not, my emails get bounced back because they've already graduated and left.
I just signed up as a student after reading this thread. You get 6 months free, and then it is half-off a regular subscription for the remainder of your time at school.
Do not connect it to anything you want to keep for a long time. University email addresses usually get deleted sometime after you graduate. So anything like subscriptions or accounts you'd eventually lose access to.
I pretty much never use my university email. Only thing I really use it for is communicating with people about university. And the school often sends out updates through email.
I miss Eduroam, when you’re in a city that has university buildings all around it’s basically free Wi-Fi all over, so useful ! (And university hospitals!)
One thing you should not do is tie it to anything important or long term because you may lose access to your university account forever once you graduate or leave the university after x amount of years.
The best thing is major discounts on publications like New York Times and the New Yorker. As a high school student you may not exactly be reading the New Yorker every week, but it's a full 50% off I believe.
I've been using Apple music at a discount for years since I subscribed using my university email, somehow worked for 3 years after college too (though I think it'll stop this year). Other than that online library subscriptions geared towards college goers, software tools, research papers, etc.
I'd tell you to claim Vivado software from Xilinx, you can create the acc. with a university mail. This is only because that HDL program is so fucking terrible you'll either become pro at hardware description language (if interested try to learn SystemVerilog) or you'll stop the installing process on the hour 2 of instalation. You're welcome.
If they are using Gmail to manage your email, you probably have unlimited Google Drive storage. They started cracking down on smaller colleges in July 2022 to set a school managed limit but so far it hasn't hit the bigger universities. To my knowledge, some University of CA schools participate but none of the CA state schools do. USC and Stanford are eligible. Alumni of the school get this perk too.
On the flip side, be sure you are aware of all limitations. Not that you don’t want to use the address, but just so you can plan. My university made a big push for “email for life” several years ago. You could continue to use the account as an alumni for free. Your address not tied to any provider.
If you enjoy watching the NFL, you can get NFL Sunday Ticket as a stand-alone streaming service for $120/season as a student (or $30/month for 4 months). Typically, you’d need to have DirecTv AND pay ~$400/season for Sunday ticket.
If you sign up for any discount subscription services because the email proves student status make sure you provide an alternative email as well because you will be locked out when your course ends.
It'll get you access to university logins for third party accounts and other systems the university uses. So say you want CAD files from a Machine vendor that makes robotic arm berrings or something soecific and obscure like that. If the university has an account with them then you could request a login useing the email as the verification path and download the files. Anything really. I just made that one up, but you get the gist. It's a skeleton key into all sorts of things out there. Cool to have 😉
Subscribe to things that are free to university students. I had subscriptions to WSJ, NYT, WaPost that way in Uni. Good luck & have some fun for an old like me.
Looking through the thread wanted to add: I know you can get autodesk fusion 360 (anyone can but you got more perks with the .edu when i was a student), MATLAB, and wolfram Mathematica with an edu email
you might be able to get student versions of expensive computer programs, rendering programs, sometimes they expire after a year but free is a decent deal
Pretty much every place has a student discount on their website. Be that free or just a % off. At least any place that a student would really care about. Things like software are probably the most common. Adobe products, Microsoft subscriptions, coding applications, virtual servers for study.
As others have said search around for free software. Otherwise definitely use it for any on campus clubs, groups, activities, and the obvious emailing teachers and classmates about project information. Pending on your school one of the best perks is the ability to search people by name for their emails if logged into Outlook or Gmail or whatever your school uses especially if you write it down. Additionally emailing industry personal with a slight caveat are more receptive to answering questions when from a student email. That said your student email is temporary and controllable by your school so use your personal private email when applying to jobs off campus and other things. That said it will almost end up becoming your main email until you graduate and it’s perks are endless.
You can use that email for all sorts of goodies. Free software is huge, as others have mentioned: adobe, AutoCAD, rhino, etc are the ones I used. Try to get discounts on anything you buy: laptops, shoes, clothing, anything. Want to be the hero of the family? Use that email for your Hulu service.
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discounted spotify premium and amazon prime student are subscription services that come to mind! I would check out your local thrift stores if that’s your thing as well; all of the ones around me have student discounts.
A lot of colleges will provide free Microsoft office for students and only requires the email
Discounted Adobe CC as well
IIRC students can get a year of You Need A Budget (YNAB).
Spotify premium discount only lasts 4 years though!
You also get a discount on Apple Music which for now includes Apple TV for free. Use the UNiDAYS website you can find many discounts on there.
HBO max also has a 25%discount for students. And YMCA
Don’t use it as your email address for anything you might need later down the road when you no longer have access to it.
"check out your local thrift stores if that’s your thing as well; all of the ones around me have student discounts."
DoorDash just started a student subscription as well I think $5 a month or $50 for a year
also verizon does 50$ off per line for student accounts
Get a UNiDAYS account. Compiles all student discounts for you!
Was about the say the same - has so many great discounts from laptops, headphones, clothing, food, Spotify, subscriptions, etc. so sad mine has run out now I’ve finished up at uni :(
To piggyback off of this comment - you can forward your student account mail to your regular account and essentially access UNiDAYS and student beans for life. I’ve been out of uni for a decade and still use these regularly (if FBI is watching this move along, nothing to see here). Although I guess Honey does that for you now.
This is a UK thing, isn’t it?
Does this apply to community college emails?
Depends where you live - in NY you can get free museum visits and some other cool stuff - the university website might have a page that tells you everything you are entitled to
Fellow New Yorker here, know that in NYC you can visit a lot of museums at a "pay what you want" price if you have a valid NYS ID. I paid like $5 for the Museum of Natural History, because their entry is a "recommended price" of $25 for the basic entry
How do you get free museum visits? Id?
NFL Sunday Ticket without a satellite subscription.
It seems to be the only way to get Sunday Ticket without a satellite dish 😕
Oh crap that reminds me, any college student with an edu, message me if you want to make an easy $25
Fuck Sunday ticket. Praying someone else buys it
Discounts on
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Was looking for a comment that mentioned Adobe! I'll add that 3D software like Cinema 4D and Maya have severely discounted/free options for students too.
I had a subscription to the NYT when I was a high school student, and wasn't taking college level courses.
You should have free access to scientific journals if you like to read about things.
Everyone has free access to journals:
I was able to get a free Grammarly account using .edu email
Wait gramarly isnt usually free? I always assumed it was. I used my EDU email
They deserve all the paid support right now. Glory to Ukraine!
Lots if engineering softwares you can get student versions for. I'd be willing to be lots of other disciples softwares have free student versions. All you need is the .edu email.
computer science
Pooh. And. Adobe art products at a reasonable price.
Try getting an account at the Samsung Education store - you have to order online, but you get up to 20% off a whole bunch of electronics (I saved several hundred on my tablet, for instance).
The Samsung education discount is great. You can get up to $400 discounts.
Bump...As a new college student I know you can get Microsoft office
Check and see if you have access to free Microsoft office 365.
Discounted plane tickets at
thanks, im actually planning on travelling soon, so that helps
Careful, I had a flight that had a free bag one way and but I had to pay the other way. It sucked.
Bless u
If you're a musician, or even if you just want to dabble in music production or recording, musical scoring, or even video editing. You can get pretty big student discounts on musical software like Ableton Live, Apple's Logic, Protools, and many video editing software.
Free license for fusion 360!!!
Fusion 360 is also free for hobbyists
Get yourself some free IntelliJ, PyCharm licenses from Jetbrains
West Elm: offers 15% off anything full priced to educators and students, but must be ordered through a store.
If you do CS stuff see if you can get AWS educate or the github student developer pack. It might depend on your university for the first, but the github one gives you tons of free stuff.
You can get extremely discounted versions of Adobe and Microsoft software
Set up email forwarding to your personal email, You won’t have access to the school email later
Doesnt it just get terminated?
This depends entirely on your school, I get mine for life.
You can cold-email serious professionals with questions about their work/research and have a chance they'll respond...giving you some awesome perspective and connections early in your education.
Uni libraries are your best friend
notion.so is a great tool for organisation and collaborative working. I used it to track assignments and store my notes from lectures. It has a free plan, and a premium plan but you can get the premium one for free with a uni email.
Amazon prime has a student rate that is half that of regular prime.
GitHub education pack gives you a shit ton of software for free just by having an email with an edu domain, i recommend checking it out
My uni email doesn’t use .edu Is it still gonna work?
Unrelated- but if you know what you’re going to major in, try and make sure you aren’t taking any classes that won’t count towards your major if at all possible. I took i think 36~ college credits in high school. I only needed 6 social science credits for my major and ultimately graduated with 24 because I didn’t know better in high school, don’t be me
I feel like this should be it’s own post! I made the same mistake.
Depends entirely on your scholarship/financial situation though. You have an opportunity to be surrounded by experts in all sorts of different fields, take advantage of it as much as you can. Take classes that sound interesting, pick up a double major or a minor or two, learn another language, never know when it could be useful. What I ended up doing and using after school definitely wasn't what I planned on when I was a teenager starting college
Opposite experience here, credits towards my major mostly DIDNT count. They wanted major coursework done there. BUT general credits gave you a better class enrollment time which was very valuable.
Amazon Prime for Students, Microsoft Office 365 for free, a bunch of different Autodesk software for free.
Thanks for the Amazon prime recommendation. I’m a grad student and every dollar counts!
there's also GitHub student Developer pack, and WAY lot of complimentary services with it, definitely should check out
New York Times subscription? Maybe
Some public libraries also offer free online access to NYT and/or other news accesses. If you don’t already have a library card in the city you’re studying in and you’re moving there for college you can get access to even more free things than just through your campus library alone. I believe my local library accepts student ID as proof of residency to get a library card. Might be worth checking out.
First thing I did was port my emails from my student email to my regular one so that if I ever lost access to the student account I could still see the emails. This helps alot since I can still use the email for discounts even though I am no longer a student.
Hulu, disney+ bundle is $5.99, Amazon Prime is discounted
StudentBeans and UNiDAYS! Sign up and get discounts on popular clothing brands and other things!
You can … …get spam email… …to another email address!
Check it a couple of times a week so you stay on top of what your profs need you to do/if things are changing in your courses.
See if the university/college has deals for free Office 365 (word, powerpoint, excel, etc...), Adobe or other stuff
I remeber using Unidays.com website for tons of different discounts from retailers in all different categories and also amazon prime membership discount. Good luck!
You could probably use the university’s rec center and/or compete in intramural sport if you’re into that jazz
The rec center is a big tip, depending on the university.
Headspace meditation app $9.99 total for a whole year.
Join Facebook? Oh, wait, it's not 2005 anymore.
Anyone remember when you had to collect signatures at your University and petition Mark Zuckerberg for your school to be able to join?
Lol we are all officially old
My thought exactly
Just said this lol
Damnit! I just posted this! 20 minutes too slow 😭
Came here to say this. Also old.
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Adobe is the only thing I'd pirate, and even then it scares me
Sign up for free or discounted Adobe and other software that you can learn and use as a basis for a profitable side hustle
Download Unidays. All student discounts and freebies are on there.
Anything with a student discount that uses your email. Also, you should have access to the university library. Use it. Both for academic stuff and just books. There are so many more things you have access to academically and book-wise with an active university email that you wouldn't normally.
They usually offer access to lots of audio books too.
Forward all emails to a private one because when you're out of there you won't have access anymore. My husband lost access to some accounts that way...
Do:
lol yeah I'm not planning on any bad stuff, that's why I posted it here and not on
Appreciate the don'ts. Also, don't use it for internships or job hunting. Or for any communications that you intend to keep going for more than the next few years. I'm often in a position to hire people and you'd be amazed how many fresh out of college students I have resumes for that still use their old college email addresses as the main point of contact. And more often than not, my emails get bounced back because they've already graduated and left.
Pretty sure you can get 1-4 years of Amazon prime for free!
I just signed up as a student after reading this thread. You get 6 months free, and then it is half-off a regular subscription for the remainder of your time at school.
Lynda used to be free (years ago) for me.
I still use linkedIn learning (formerly Lynda) with my university account for free. Synced with my normal profile.
Use all of your digital subscriptions for course materials with this account.
Discounts on Spotify premium, apple products, I think free Amazon prime.
Software licensed like Microsoft office, Tableau.
Do not connect it to anything you want to keep for a long time. University email addresses usually get deleted sometime after you graduate. So anything like subscriptions or accounts you'd eventually lose access to.
If your college is recognised then you can get access full and FREE ACESS TP ADOBE SUIT, CANVA, MICROSOFT OFFICE PACKAGE AND various other software
People saying Amazon but I applied for this and they said they now require a picture or copy of your current semester schedule due to abuse.
Columbia House… it’s 12 cds for $.01.
I pretty much never use my university email. Only thing I really use it for is communicating with people about university. And the school often sends out updates through email.
Adobe Creative Cloud
Just keep in mind you might not have it forever. The college might change the email or repeatedly try to revoke it after you graduate.
Get a Totem card. Lots of discounts, including (IIRC) 10% at Coop.
I miss Eduroam, when you’re in a city that has university buildings all around it’s basically free Wi-Fi all over, so useful ! (And university hospitals!)
One thing you should not do is tie it to anything important or long term because you may lose access to your university account forever once you graduate or leave the university after x amount of years.
Omegle college chat my dude 😎
Do this 👇
The best thing is major discounts on publications like New York Times and the New Yorker. As a high school student you may not exactly be reading the New Yorker every week, but it's a full 50% off I believe.
Launch nuclear weapons ala War Games
You can make a Facebook account back in 2006!
You can get MLB-TV for free for the rest of the season if you sign up with an ID.me account.
Sign up for porn sites and get a student discount!
amazing idea
College stuff. You want porn or adds or other weird stuff popping up in there? No, just use it for college or college related stuff
it's just an email address. usually required to log into university sites or classes.
yeah not planning on doing anything bad, i just know there are places that offer free or discounted stuff if you have a .edu address
Back in my day you needed that for a Facebook account
I've been using Apple music at a discount for years since I subscribed using my university email, somehow worked for 3 years after college too (though I think it'll stop this year). Other than that online library subscriptions geared towards college goers, software tools, research papers, etc.
Spotify/apple music, StudentBeans, Amazon prime student are the ones I use!
Prime sometimes gives student rates
Sunday Ticket for 25 bucks a month!
You can get a discount on ASOS
Discounted Amazon Prime.
I think the Microsoft sheets, documents and power point.
You can get extra coupons from target as a student. Amazon prime is cheaper for students too
I believe you can get Microsoft office and also courses on linked in learning
Download Microsoft Office if you can. You have to pay for a subscription now…
Apple store discounts
I'd tell you to claim Vivado software from Xilinx, you can create the acc. with a university mail. This is only because that HDL program is so fucking terrible you'll either become pro at hardware description language (if interested try to learn SystemVerilog) or you'll stop the installing process on the hour 2 of instalation. You're welcome.
J Crew discounts.
If they are using Gmail to manage your email, you probably have unlimited Google Drive storage. They started cracking down on smaller colleges in July 2022 to set a school managed limit but so far it hasn't hit the bigger universities. To my knowledge, some University of CA schools participate but none of the CA state schools do. USC and Stanford are eligible. Alumni of the school get this perk too.
Discounted NFL Sunday ticket
Free Developer Azure Account.
Student pricing for NFL Sunday Ticket (no direct tv required)
Apple has student discounts.
Best Buy too
Free or almost free subscription to the Wall Street Journal online. Probably others too
Contact student activities dept and see if they have free tickets to baseball/ basketball games
don't know if this still applies but google drive is unlimited (or very large capacity) for uni mail
On the flip side, be sure you are aware of all limitations. Not that you don’t want to use the address, but just so you can plan. My university made a big push for “email for life” several years ago. You could continue to use the account as an alumni for free. Your address not tied to any provider.
A LOT of software. At discounted/free price. Digital art software, as an example. Among the other things others have mentioned here
Amazon prime has a student discount Wall Street journal has a student discount as well. I assume other news outlets do too.
Can get Spotify, NFL Sunday Ticket U, and US Mobile student discounts. Free Wall Street Journal, I believe.
Spotify student discount
If you enjoy watching the NFL, you can get NFL Sunday Ticket as a stand-alone streaming service for $120/season as a student (or $30/month for 4 months). Typically, you’d need to have DirecTv AND pay ~$400/season for Sunday ticket.
Discount newspaper subscriptions, Spotify (already mentioned elsewhere), gotta be more but I can’t remember…
I think if you can show proof of being a college student, you can get YouTube Premium for like $6.99/month.
Sign up with it on Coursera
You get discounts at best buy now
Heavily discounted skiing passes
If you sign up for any discount subscription services because the email proves student status make sure you provide an alternative email as well because you will be locked out when your course ends.
Hulu student plan
Spotify premium and Hulu basic for like $6. Free Adobe suite, or maybe it's the cheap version now.
It'll get you access to university logins for third party accounts and other systems the university uses. So say you want CAD files from a Machine vendor that makes robotic arm berrings or something soecific and obscure like that. If the university has an account with them then you could request a login useing the email as the verification path and download the files. Anything really. I just made that one up, but you get the gist. It's a skeleton key into all sorts of things out there. Cool to have 😉
Subscribe to things that are free to university students. I had subscriptions to WSJ, NYT, WaPost that way in Uni. Good luck & have some fun for an old like me.
Free student licenses for software
Looking through the thread wanted to add: I know you can get autodesk fusion 360 (anyone can but you got more perks with the .edu when i was a student), MATLAB, and wolfram Mathematica with an edu email
ID.me for student discounts
Crunch fitness was offering free membership to students I don't know if that's still going
In my country, discounted wifi (Canada)
If you’re into electronics or studying for, you can request for free chips (ICs - integrated circuits) from TI.com, Analog.com et al. Free shipping.
Adobe suite at a discount
Microsoft office suite Edit - you will usually get a discount of free version if your university has a deal with Microsoft.
If youre taking IT or CS related courses sometimes your uni will have softwares that you can download for free. Like windows, ms office suite, etc
Usually Office 365 for free
Get hella discounts on hella expensive shit. Like Pro Tools, Apple Music, Adobe Lightroom etc
Apply for memberships with hulu, spotify, Microsoft 365, photoshop, etc
Lots of software available for cheap if you have a .edu address.
Amazon music maybe account for a discount
Discounts. Adobe. Spotify. Lots of subscriptions. Etc.
If its an outlook email it probly has free Microsoft office included very nice if you're not always on your computer.
you might be able to get student versions of expensive computer programs, rendering programs, sometimes they expire after a year but free is a decent deal
Pretty much every place has a student discount on their website. Be that free or just a % off. At least any place that a student would really care about. Things like software are probably the most common. Adobe products, Microsoft subscriptions, coding applications, virtual servers for study.
Amazon prime student account…like $5.99 a month.
Discount on Amazon Prime and or Spotify!!!
MS Office at a discount.
As others have said search around for free software. Otherwise definitely use it for any on campus clubs, groups, activities, and the obvious emailing teachers and classmates about project information. Pending on your school one of the best perks is the ability to search people by name for their emails if logged into Outlook or Gmail or whatever your school uses especially if you write it down. Additionally emailing industry personal with a slight caveat are more receptive to answering questions when from a student email. That said your student email is temporary and controllable by your school so use your personal private email when applying to jobs off campus and other things. That said it will almost end up becoming your main email until you graduate and it’s perks are endless.
You can use that email for all sorts of goodies. Free software is huge, as others have mentioned: adobe, AutoCAD, rhino, etc are the ones I used. Try to get discounts on anything you buy: laptops, shoes, clothing, anything. Want to be the hero of the family? Use that email for your Hulu service.