This is just a general comment based on some of the (strange) sentiment below. Github is a for-profit company. As a student, they're offering you a break to ma

This is just a general comment based on some of the (strange) sentiment below. Github is a for-profit company. As a student, they're offering you a break to make it easier to use their service. They do this because they ultimately want you to pay them (or host great open source projects with them). If you're not a student and derive value from their service, pay them. It's $10s of dollars per month (for private repo hosting). If you value your code, I'd encourage you to go with (and pay) a service whose primary business is hosting it for you. That's github. Your money is going to pay people (like you) who make a living writing code.