Scenario: I'm a New Student
First, congratulations on your decision to come to Rice University! Check out the six-page handout, Campus Computing 101 (.pdf format), which is full of advice for new students on how to prepare or buy a computer to bring to Rice.
Getting Started
- Personal Accounts and your NetID - In order to check your email and use other campus computing resources, you will first need to access your NetID (electronic ID for Rice) and set your password.
- Protect your password and your computer - no one at Rice will ask for your password. Delete every message that requests your password or other personal information. This type of email is called as phishing.
- Email - check your email through the Internet.
- Voicemail - check your voicemail messages from off-campus
- Storage - save your data and files to a personal storage account or your department's shared directory.
- Printing - around 6 cents per page.
Answers to the rest of your questions about everything IT at Rice (computers, software, printing, telephones, email, wired/wireless networks, etc.) can be found in IT Tutorials:
https://docs.rice.edu/confluence/x/yQI1. .
