SearchNU

January 15, 2026

  • what do you even do?
    • I've been working on Graduate for the NEU undergrad community as part of Sandbox since Fall24
    • I love working on Graduate, but I honestly don't see myself or a lot of other people actually using it
  • what is SearchNU
    • we want students to search for courses easier
    • we want to be alerted when course seats open via sms
    • planneu, check out all the ways you can schedule a semester's class!
  • why SearchNU
    • dennis what happen to Graduate?
    • we want make graduate as accessible as possible!
    • search is a modern platform (big mike glaze he is setting us up for success)
    • project teams are happier when not dealing with tech debt!
    • integration will be smoother
  • how SearchNU
    • this is the fun part!
    • first sem, get the plan builder working, yikes thats a lot of coding in react
      • still not sure how to break frontend down into digestable tickets
    • using graduate backend for:
      • fetching json req files
      • sharing plan
      • and some other serverless funcs (as time allows)
    • adding new table in searchneu db matching users to built plans

overall really looking forward to this semester and the technical problems to overcome!