[Goronmon]

I'll use this opportunity to complain about experience with college e-mail.

For the last year and half of college I was having a tough time getting announcements for stuff that everyone but me seemed to know about and I seemed to be occasionally missing events and e-mail conversations with groups for certain classes. I wrote it off as me just not paying enough attention to e-mails and notices.

Then I realized right near the end of college that I was actually was missing a significant portion of my e-mails. This was due to the fact that while I normally used the webmail client, one time I had logged into the Exchange client to try it out. Apparently when that happened my e-mail was being randomly grabbed by whichever server was the quickest at that particular moment. Since I never checked the Exchange account I didn't realize until after the fact that it contained hundreds of important e-mails that would have made my college life much easier if I had known about. I'll, I'm probably partially to blame if I missed some warning somewhere during the process that indicated that this could happen.

Still though, I would have much preferred not having to deal with the school's e-mail system so this type of change is definitely for the better in my mind.

Edit: Plus, as others have mentioned, you generally lose access to that e-mail address once you graduate, meaning you need to transition all your contacts to a new account anyways.