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Bluebooking for happiness | Zhengdong

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Every semester Yale begins with shopping period. You can go to any class, and at the end of two weeks, turn in your final schedule. It’s different from other shopping-period-like systems where you sign up for more classes than you intend to take and then drop them. I usually have no idea what I’ll actually end up taking when the semester begins. There’s a lot of classes to choose from. Most of the time the first meeting of a class isn’t as good as you thought it would be based on the description. Reality is often disappointing. It’s time-prohibitive to seriously consider every class, and at best you’ll only get through a quarter of the list before getting lazy. I came up with these rules for myself to instantly cut out over half of my options. There’s probably some gems in there. But I save so much mental energy! Will these rules be any use to you? Here’s some— Friend: *eye roll* Oh my god Zhengdong. Friend: Nice. First-year I FroCo’ed: You know the longer I’m at Yale the more I realiz

Bluebooking for happiness | Zhengdong Bluebooking for happiness | Zhengdong Wang [home] Bluebooking for happiness Note: I last made a significant update to this in 2021, the year I graduated. Some facts about Yale course selection have changed, but I still stand by my general point. Every semester Yale begins with shopping period. You can go to any class, and at the end of two weeks, turn in your final schedule. It’s different from other shopping-period-like systems where you sign up for more classes than you intend to take and then drop them. I usually have no idea what I’ll actually end up t

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