12 things to do if you're graduating and losing your student email

I just got notified that I'll lose my student email. Everything if you're about to lose your student email, 1. Secure your alumni address. This allows you to keep student discount apps like Notion, Miro, still for free. .edu or .ac.uk email address. At my university we've lost alumni emails. There were some phishing emails from alumni addresses claiming that everyone's tuition fees were overdue and they owed someone money. 2. Download all your project files, assignments, dissertation slides etc. Log into your university account and download all your files. Canvas coursework, assignments, grades, feedback. Notes or PDFs, projects from find online using OneDrive or Google Drive. 3. Extract third party apps that need student email. If you use Notion, Miro, or any other software or app where you get a free premium plan if you use your uni student email address, export all your information from those third party apps, move it to an alternative such as Obsidian or start paying. 4. Change your uni login email everywhere. If you've accidentally used your uni email to sign up and make an account with any software, might lose if you're graduating. 5. Redeem student software free. LinkedIn Learning, GitHub starter pack. With your student email you can get certificates, qualifications in sales, in marketing, programming, tech, AI, cyber security. Find out what you want to do to get it for free whilst you still got your student email address. You type in LinkedIn Learning followed by your university name. If you're a programmer, Google Cloud, if you're content creator or designer, Adobe. 6. Maximise your student discounts. Student Beans, UniDays, Amazon Prime, Apple Music, Spotify, Samsung, local shops, Holland and Barrett, Boots. A lot of barbers I go to. 7. Download important emails. Emails you might find important such as exam transcripts emails, internship offers, scholarship confirmation, attendance record, feedback from your professor. You can likely download it from your university portal as well. Save it to your personal account. International students visa documents, references. 8. Update your contact/CV links. Anywhere you use your university email address to contact you, such as your LinkedIn, your CV, your GitHub, make sure you change that to your personal email address. 9. Get your student/grad bank account with free cashback. If it's the year you're graduating you can apply for a student bank account. Lloyds, Nationwide, HSBC, Santander. Get a free railcard, a free 200 pounds. There's incentives from different banks. These bank accounts switch from a student account into a graduate account once you've graduated. 10. Check your alumni benefits (search 'alumni' in your inbox). Understand what your benefits as an alumni of that university? Can you still access parts of campus? Do you have an alumni email? Do you get career support? Networking events? 11. Save emails of professors you might need a reference from. Make sure you save the contacts of any lecturers you might find important, your tutors, your classmates, supervisors. 12. Check graduate scholarships/opportunities. Check for scholarships and any opportunities you can still get whilst you're a graduate. There are still scholarships such as the Turing scheme. Two years from when you graduated, you can still apply for graduate jobs in your university's career portal. Let me know if I missed anything. I can drop a part two, follow for more.