The timeline
Your full Porter mailbox keeps working for a set number of months after your degree posts, so nothing breaks mid-application-season. After that the mailbox closes and mail to your old address bounces — unless you've set up alumni forwarding.
The forwarding address
Every graduate can claim a permanent alumni forwarding address that redirects to a personal account of their choice, changeable any time. It's an address, not a mailbox — useful as a stable “contact me” line on a résumé or a professional profile for decades.
In and around Porter Falls
The Technology Help Desk is on the first floor of the Jarvis Technology Center. One student identity signs into MyPorter, the learning environment, campus Wi-Fi, printing and the library.
The practical details
Full mailbox: Active for a grace period after graduation, then closed. Forwarding: A permanent name@alumni.uwporterfalls.edu address that forwards to wherever you want, for life. Before you go: Move anything you need out of the mailbox during the grace period. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Technology Help Desk (Jarvis Technology Center, Room 105). Call (715) 555–0120 or email helpdesk@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.