As spring cleaning is upon us and the semester is almost over, I decided to clean out my email inbox this week. I realized as a college student I get a lot of different types of emails and some are important while others, I delete immediately (or mean to delete and have them sit in my inbox for months, which is why I have so much to clean up at the end of each semester). For all my college students, these are the 11 most common emails I have in my inbox.
1.Emails from your academic department office
These are always opened, skimmed and then kept because they have important information in them, but by the end of the semester you realized you never went back and you have 50 of them in your inbox.
2. Emails from the university's official email
They keep you informed about what is going on at your school, but it is kind of repetitive considering the same information is everywhere else on campus too.
3. Emails from the university police department
Basically, they tell you where you can and can’t park.
4.Google Docs invites
They way every college student does a group project. Whoever creates it has basically signed up to be the group leader.
5. LinkedIn notifications
They send me every notification from my profile I barely even have to check the actual profile.
6. Assignment submission emails
That satisfying “ding” after submitting an assignment is one of the best emails you get as a student.
7. Emails from professors
Tell us if grades are in or if a class is canceled. Otherwise, it can probably wait until we get to class.
8. Work emails
Just as important as school emails but come less frequently.
9. Student organization emails
Thank you for the reminder about the meeting tomorrow because I sure didn’t remember (especially when they only happen once a month)
10. Shopping emails
Why did I give Bath and Body Works my email after that candle sale? I never shop there and they email me every day at least. The last thing I need is another shopping email.
11. Junk emails
Anything that does not fit into the above 10 categories or that end up in my spam folder.
Best of luck for the end of the semester and hope this inspired you to clean out yu inbox because, after 4 months, it probably needs to be organized.
