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[RandomNumberGenerator]

Well, the ad did specifically request for references, so I'll probably put them in there. I don't have many... just high school teachers and maybe two professors I'm on decent standing with from DeVry(1 semester isn't a lot of time to get to knwo somebody), but I need to send this off tomorrow though, since it's nearly been a week.

[Blacken]

You made sure to ask your references first, right?

[Jude]

Get a professional email address. Real name @gmail.com, or (even better) get a domain with your name. That email address screams "kid", and you don't want that.

Yeah, you definitely need to have your email address be your.name (or your.x.name, with middle initial, if it's already taken...I had to do that and my name is not at all common) @ gmail.com. Your own domain name though is going a little far, nobody really has those, especially not a college kid. Just get the gmail one.

[Starver]

Your own domain name though is going a little far, nobody really has those, especially not a college kid. Just get the gmail one.

Well, I quite like my .me.uk domain[1].  It also means I can register foo@myname.me.uk and bar@myname.me.uk to different places and allow my email program the ability to easily filter messages into various subfolders and gives me the opportunity to filter out any abused addresses (thankfully none, so far, over the two or three years, but the possibility is there).

Though obviously that costs (luckily, set it up before I had my recent money troubles), and I've used gmail accounts for non-professional purposes, which I admit you can also set up in multiplicity (and as POP3 or IMAP), but with the disadvantage that you've got to get lucky and avoid all the other gmail users' choices of "name@"s.

[1] Ok, so I could have gone international, but I wasn't planning on moving abroad or being an international playperson.

[Blacken]

Your own domain name though is going a little far, nobody really has those, especially not a college kid.

Oh, they don't? Really? I guess the fourteen I just came up with off the top of my head are a complete fiction. Pretty much everyone I know who actually has something going for them has their own, especially in technology (it may not be their name, but it's unambiguously a personal site/representation). It is another example of how to go above and beyond what's expected and stand out, because it highlights you and makes you memorable.