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In my second year, I noticed our class group chat was chaotic—200+ students, constant memes, and important updates getting buried. People were missing deadline changes and losing 5–10% on assignments. I tracked one week of messages and counted: roughly 600 messages, but only about 25 were actually important. I proposed splitting communication into channels. I created a structured Discord server with four main areas: official announcements, Q&A by course, study resources, and a casual chat. I recruited three classmates as moderators and wrote a short “how to use this” guide that we pinned. Over the next month, the number of “wait, when is this due?” messages dropped by about 60%, and professors started sending reminders to the announcements channel because it was more reliable. It didn’t fix everything, but it turned noisy chatter into something that actually supported grades and time management.
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