An outline of Bluebooking for Happiness :

Only the Professor Matters

• Make your own criteria for what a good professor is
• Attending classes is the best way to verify if a professor is good
• Course reviews are an okay approximation but can be biased
• Popular professors may be overrated
• New professors are underrated and can be some of the best
• Course title, description, syllabus, and content don’t matter as much as the professor
• Drop a major to avoid a bad professor

Take Easy Classes

• Take at most two high-workload classes per semester
• Your time is valuable, prioritize real-world experience and building connections
• Pick high-workload classes that teach you something unique
• Low-workload, serious classes are better than traditional “guts”
• Find classes others are taking for the material or professor that are also low-workload
• The value of college comes from more than just classes

Don’t Take Classes with Section

• Sections are designed to fail and rarely have the expertise of the professor
• TAs may not have the incentive or knowledge to give accurate information
• Section adds extra time and overhead

Timing Considerations

• Don’t take classes because you “have to” (except for language and limited classes)
• Don’t take classes that meet more than twice a week
• Don’t take classes that meet on Friday
• Don’t take labs
• Don’t take languages (unless required)
• Don’t double major

Advising

• Get good advisors who will give different extreme opinions
• Be decisive and don’t average the advice you get