Other Student-Made Guides

Over the years, many Georgia Tech students have made guides to help the ones who follow in their footsteps. Here is a collection of some of those guides:

Websites and Documents

SGA New Student Tips (2021)

A curated list of useful resources for new students.

Freshman Guide (2016/2017)

An extremely comprehensive and well-written Google Docs document with advice for incoming freshmen. Check it out, most of the info is still relevant today!

Guide to Georgia Tech (2018)

Another useful guide for freshmen, these are a collection of Google Docs documents posted here. It includes insight from a summer freshman.

r/OMSCS Wiki (2016-)

While on-campus students have the luxury to commiserate in-person, r/OMSCS students have directed their energy to create their own online information hub.

r/gatech Wiki (2024-)

Wiki currently being overhauled on r/gatech

https://gtcsinformationhub.wordpress.com/ (2019?)

An LMC 3403 student project, this contains some advice and testimonials from CS students about select courses and threads. Some info may be outdated, so make sure to check official websites.

GT Dual Enrollment Guide (?)

A student-made guide to help Dual Enrollment students register for classes at GT. Not sure how accurate / up-to-date this is, so please seek official info.

Code Projects

shoulditakethecredit.com/faq (2017-2019)

This guide is currently linked in the r/gatech sidebar as "GT FAQ". However, the website is defunct because the domain is expired. It used to be pretty funny; when incoming freshmen asked "should I take the credit from AP Calculus or should I re-take it at GT?!", redditors would post a link to shoulditakethecredit.com, which was a static webpage with a single word in bold: Yes.

The /faq section of the page, by contrast, had a much more helpful collection of information and advice, with topics ranging from dorms to registration.

The source code for this website is available on GitHub. It's a Jekyll static page generator that uses Markdown files for pages, and could easily be resurrected. Or, you can view the page files in this folder to see what they wrote.

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GTNav Wiki (2012)

In 2012, a post to r/gatech wondered if there could be some FAQ of common questions that could be added to the sidebar. Hours later, GTNav was born. Created by u/haxxormaster (NRE major and r/gatech moderator), it was based on Mediawiki (like this wiki).

However, the wiki is now defunct. You can see what the front page looked like using this archive.org link. Blue-linked pages include topics such as Housing, FASET, Commuter tips, and more. Unfortunately, those pages don't seem to be archived.

GTNav serves as an example of both the ingenuity of GT students and of the importance of archiving information on the internet.