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.edu email addresses give you access to discounts on all kinds of things including software, tickets, and online services. Normally you have to be a student to access those perks, but there are a few ways to get it for free:

California Colleges homepage

California Colleges is a state website that provides information to students to help them discover more about California schools. They happen to also give free email addresses!

https://secure.californiacolleges.edu/newuser.asp

email portal



South Mountain Community College homepage

South Mountain Community College is a large school based in Phoenix, Arizona. Check them out and sign up for their free email account.

https://eims.maricopa.edu/MAW/MAW.html

Once you have your edu email adress here are some of the awesome things you can do with an .edu email address:

• Free 1 year membership to Amazon Prime for Students. www.amazon.com/gp/student/signup/info

• Free Microsoft software through Dreamspark https://www.dreamspark.com/

• Free Prezi upgrade

• Free AutoCad

• Discounts on Adobe software

• Double space allocation for Dropbox referrals

• And possibly discounts on your phone bill.

There are a ton of additional free perks. Do you know any particularly good ones we missed? If so, list them in the comments!