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Georgia Tech Student Launches JustLMK To Help Classmates Track Open Course Seats

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When I think back to my college years (now well over a decade ago) I vividly remember the pain of signing up for classes. The stress of refreshing the registration website, checking for waitlist spots at odd hours…all in hopes of snagging a class I needed to fulfill a graduation requirement.

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Photo portrait of Georgia Tech CS major Mehul Jasti
Georgia Tech CS major Mehul Jasti. Photo courtesy of LinkedIn

I assumed the process had been streamlined by now, and that today’s students were not still constantly refreshing one website in hopes that someone else had dropped from the one class you needed. It turns out, college kids today are having the same frustrations with platforms like OSCAR as I, and my fellow Millennials, all experienced years ago.

Georgia Tech first-year student Mehul Jasti felt the registration pain when he first stepped onto campus to pursue his computer science degree. With just two semesters of college under his belt, he’s launched an app, JustLmk, to help fellow students combat registration stress and ultimately get the classes they need.

Read tech journalist Maija Ehlinger's complete article on Hypepotamus.