Georgia Tech students start class

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Georgia Tech students start class

Photos: Georgia Tech students on the first day of class. Aug. 23, 2010

Skiles Walkway at Georgia Tech is filled with returning students on the first day of class Monday.

Joo Chong (right), a junior from Korea, gets directions from Georgia Tech staffer Jonathan Duke, as student Asra Rehan from Macon waits her turn. Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, was the first day of classes.

Georgia Tech students Chelsey Pye, a senior from Statesboro (top), and Ali Kinser, a freshman from Marietta, take in some sun and reading between classes outside the student center.

Georgia Tech students board the campus buses Monday at Ferst Drive and Cherry Street. The incoming freshman class is reported by the school to be one of the most diverse, with 13,500 applicants from 49 states and 89 countries.

Georgia Tech students line up for the ATM machines on the first day of school at the Fred B. Wenn Student Center.

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Skiles Walkway at Georgia Tech is filled with returning students on the first day of class Monday.

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