This morning, I woke up to this email:

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Zaid,

We understand that you are providing a useful service to students, through ClassHunt.  At this point we are concerned about the impact this is having on our systems.  We would like to work collaboratively to resolve this problem.  Would you please call me regarding this service?  My cell is ...

Thanks,
Stephanie

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After talking with Stephanie, it appears that a whole lotta people are logging into studentcentral to check grades. And classhunt's constantly checking for classes was disrupting that.

So they put a temporary block on classhunt while we together figure out how to make it work efficiently! I'm supposed to get a call from couple guys in ITS to come to a solution.

Rest assured, we'll be back soon. And super-kudos to Stephanie and UNC for their willingness to work with us.

There is this professor at the J-school.

He is very old. And more than a little clueless about how course registrations work.

So when the current semester started, I tried to sneak into his class even though it was full. I made a point to attend every class in the first two weeks so I can extract every ounce of sympathy from him to let me in even though it was full. Hey it worked before! Why won't it work now? I told myself.

Well, it didn't work.

"You should sign up when someone drops it."

He said this at least three times. Every time I requested that he manually add me to the class roster he would look at me like I was stupid. As if I was asking him to find a spot on a space shuttle. The thing wasn't so much that he disapproved of me being in the class. Rather, he did not seem to understand that as a profesor, he can force-add me to the class.

"Professor! I spent better part of yesterday waiting on my computer for this class to become available! It didn't!"

Nothing worked. Pissed off, I wrote some code to let me know when that one class opened up.

The class opened up. My phone buzzed. And few minutes later, I was enrolled.

Still, once I got that class I totally forgot about the system I'd made. That was until I heard a few business school friends fret over getting into a few classes! That story is for another day.

In the Daily Tar Heel article covering ClassHunt, you will find this:

"Though administrators have expressed concerns about whether its information would be accurate, they said they support the program’s ideals."

There is NO reason for concern here. StudentCentral has the ABSOLUTE latest data on class availability. And ClassHunt simply uses that data!

We're no rocket scientists, but we do believe that if X = Y, then...Y = X. So if StudentCentral has the most accurate data, then ClassHunt also has the most accurate data.

It's not a guess. It's a fact we've confirmed from emails from ClassHunt users delighted to get into a class, all because of that txt msg from ClassHunt!

So chillax. Quit fretting. Simply tell us the classes you need to get into. And we'll tell you when the moment arrives.

I'll leave y'all with my current fav tune called Windmill by Tokyo Moon:

Looking to find a steal? Here are all classes at Carolina with EXACTLY ONE SEAT available!

- Sorted by major.
- Does not include labs/recitations.
- In paranthesis is the call number.

Drop a comment if you've taken a class and you'd recommend it!

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AMST
NATIVE NORTH AMERICA(90062)
SHALOM Y'ALL(90084)

ANTH
HUMAN OSTEOLOGY LAB(90208)
ANCIENT CITIES: AMERICAS(00028)
GEN ANTHROPOLOGY(90094)

ARAB
ELEM ARABIC I(90299)

ASIA
JAPANESE RELI AFTER 1868(00324)
TROPICAL ASIA(00226)
INTRO TO CHINESE HISTORY(00231)

BIOL
FUND/HUM ANAT/PHYS(00138)
BIOLOGY OF DISEASE(90614)

BIOS
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION(90938)
APLD LONG DATA ANALY(90884)

BUSI
GLBL FINAN MRKTS(91113)
BUSI ANALYT APPS(91073)
FINCL STMT ANLYS(91064)

CHEM
LAB ORG/ANALY BIO(91256)
INTRO QUANTUM CHEM(91340)
LAB ORG/ANALY BIO(91262)

CHIN
ELEMENTARY CHINESE I(91432)

CLAR
GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY(91480)

COMM
POPULAR MUSIC(91602)
AUD/VID/FLM PRD/WRT(91615)
ENVIRONMENTAL COMM(91667)

DRAM
PATTERN II: VICTORIAN(00723)
CONST III ADV PATTERN(91973)
COST PROD. I: COUTURE(91962)
COSTUME CONST I(91959)
THEATRE FORSOCIAL CHANGE(00751)
ACTING FOR THE CAMERA(91942)

ECON
PUB POL TOWARD BUS(92450)
ECON APPL/STAT ANAL(00622)

EDUC
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION(92768)
DOCT INTERN SCH PSY(92709)
EXTERN SCHL PSYC(92683)

ENGL
ENG COMP/RHET (INTERDIS)(92921)
ENG COMP/RHET (INTERDIS)(92918)
LIT/CULTURAL DIVERSITY(92997)

ENVR
RESEARCH IN ESE(93319)

EPID
AGING AND HEALTH(93386)

EXSS
SPORT MARKETING(93574)
ECON & FINANCE OF SPORT(93575)
PHYSIOLOGY OF EXERCISE(93578)

FOLK
MASTER'S THESIS(00770)
BODY & SUBJECT(93606)

FREN
ELEM FRNCH II(93627)
SURVEY FREN LIT II(99356)

GEOG
WORLD REGIONAL GEOG(93699)

GEOL
INTRODUCTORY GEOL L(93774)
HONORS(93819)

GERM
FOR FAIRYTALES/CHILDHOOD(93883)

HBHE
CANCER PREV & CTRL(93971)

HIST
HIST OF BRAZIL(99196)
NATIVE NORTH AMERICA(94027)

HNRS
CONSPIRACY THINKING(00318)

INLS
METADATA(94509)

ITAL
INTMED ITAL I(94694)
INTMED ITAL I(94691)
INTMED ITAL I(94689)
INTMED ITAL I(94688)

JOMC
SPECIALIZED REPORTING(94857)
SCI DOCUMENTARY(00714)
CRISIS COMMUNICATION(99548)
AUDIO-VIDEO INFORMATION(00750)

JWST
JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA(94912)

MHCH
CONCUR FLD TRN/MHCH(95530)

MUSC
WORLD MUSIC & CULTURE(95787)
THEORY LAB III(95763)

NAVS
INTRO NAVAL SCIENCE(95826)

NURS
INTRO NURSG RESEARCH(95998)
FNP PRACTICUM(96115)

PHCY
PHAR SKILLS LAB III(00646)
PHAR CARE LAB V(00651)
AGING AND HEALTH(96469)

PHIL
INTRO: MAIN PROBS(99284)
INTRODUCTION ETHICS(00928)

PHYA
BEGINNING MODERN DANCE(96618)
BEGINNING VOLLEYBALL(96636)

PHYS
DOCTORAL DISSERT(96847)
MASTER'S RESEARCH(96831)
FLUID DYNAMICS(96818)
ADVANCED LAB I(96814)
GENERAL PHYSICS LAB(96726)

PLAN
URBAN DESIGN(96892)

PLCY
EDUCATION POLICY(96974)

POLI
CONTEMP INT-AM REL(97174)
INTL CONFLICT PROCESSES(99525)
COMMERCE & CIVILIZATION(99526)
ETH,MOR,LIB, & LAW(97093)
CONT LAT AM POLI(99519)

PORT
INTERMED PORT I(97253)
INTERMED PORT I(97252)
INTERMED PORT I(97251)

PSYC
ASSESSMENT PRACTICUM(97426)

PWAD
WORLD REGIONAL GEOG(97602)
WAR, REVOL AND CULTURE(99577)
WAR/AM SOC TO 1903(97638)

RELI
COMPARATIVE RELI(99093)
JAPANESE RELI AFTER 1868(99018)
VAR CHRISTIANITY(00407)
INT/CONTEMP CATHOLICISM(00931)

RUSS
DOSTOEVSKY(99803)

SOWO
BRIEF TREATMENT(99981)
ATOD: CLINICAL PRACT(98108)

SPAN
ELEMENTARY SPANISH II(98195)
INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II(98273)
CONVERSATION I HNRS(98314)
SEM SPAN AM LITER(98404)
SPAN MEDICAL PROFESSIONS(98355)
SPAN FOR BUSINESS(98354)
MEDIEVAL SPAN LIT(99443)
CUBA'S DIASPORIC LIT(98388)

STOR
SPREADSHEET MODELS(98507)
INTRO STATISTICS(98501)

WMST
SEX & GEN IN SOC(98732)
JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA(98739)
INT POL SEX/REPRO HEALTH(98747)

"I was in a meeting and it took me a while to get to a computer.  Your site is awesome.  I've already told a bunch of people about it."
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"i thought this was funny... i told one of my friends about it, and when he told me that it worked for him and he got into a hard-to-get-into organic class, he said "dude, dont tell ANYONE about this site. this is gold." haha but yeah ive been telling everyone about it, keep it up man. let me know if you need anything"
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" Ya, i got the class! It worked really well, and i'm really impressed. Thanks for this service man,"