I didn’t expect to bother epic either, I just thought their community would be better to ask about than any github-centric communities, haha. I’m waiting on someone to show up who just got their license / is waiting on one so we can get an average time together. won’t even be relevant for long, but I’ve got friends in college also interested in getting UE4 who haven’t even applied yet!
I am using a .edu account, and NJIT is definitely part of NA 
Thanks for the welcome! I’ll do my best to be patient and fight for UE4 to have a bigger presence at NJIT so Unity & GM don’t dominate all available game dev courses.