When I was in college, our online class registration process for each semester was very crude<p>When the time of year came, you'd be put into a group. Groups would be staggered across a series of days so as not to overwhelm the system. Very early on your group's morning (like 5am I think?), the floodgates would open and it was a mad (online) dash to grab slots so that you could hopefully get good times (avoiding 8am's, etc, or at least getting the credits you needed!). This all happened through a web portal, and in a matter of minutes you could miss your chance for some of the more popular classes. It was like trying to buy a PS5.<p>To go more quickly, you could type in an exact course number instead of browsing through the listings. So people would look up the numbers for the courses they wanted ahead of time (as well as for some backups, in case one or two of them filled up).<p>Well, I learned about AutoHotKey from another student. I hardcoded each of my F-keys to type in the course IDs on my list so I could fill them out rapidly, and was fairly successful getting the classes I wanted :)