Shopping Period is a time of unencumbered exploration that ensures an enriching experience for the semester to come. It is arguably the most formative, important time of the semester. Yet most people approach Shopping Period completely wrong! Maybe you know the secret to letting a professor let you into your seminar, or maybe you have access to some secret list of underenrolled science credits, in which case, good for you. But if the only thing you are shopping during shopping week is classes, you are missing the entire point. Shopping Period is, more than anything else, the prime time to scout out potential husbands, wives, boos, and hook-ups. Shopping Period is for shopping people.

If this is your approach to shopping week (it should be), then you have been blessed by Peter Xu and Harry Yu, creators of Coursetable (originally YBB+). Coursetable, the trendy, gluten-free alternative to Yale BlueBook, lets you to see what classes your Facebook friends using the service are shopping, allowing you to structure your shopping week schedule around the faces you hope to be staring at in section. If you’re on a speaking basis with your crush (grats), you can even strike up a little academic convo and wait for sparks to fly. “No way, you’re also interested in Russian Film? That’s so crazy! Andrei Tarkovsky was actually a close friend of my grandfather’s. Come to my room and I will show you his locket!”

Sometimes, of course, there are the unexpected blessings: the unknown cuties that crop up in your classes and give you real hope that there might be some people left on this campus that have yet to come on your Tinder. The strategy here is slightly trickier. You can take the class, but what if blond-with-cool-sweater-and-glasses doesn’t actually end up taking Constitutional Law? What then? Well, one classic move is to make sure they get the attendance sheet first, so you can spot their name when it comes your way and stalk them on Yale Facebook. Make sure to count how many people signed it after them, because you don’t want to go home only to find that the name you took down actually belonged to Norm McWeirdface sitting adjacent. Not to fear though: if something does go awry and the attendance trick doesn’t work out, you can always take a sneak picture during class, hang it next to your bed, and kiss it every night before you go to sleep alone.

Now I know this post comes to you a little late in shopping period, but you got one day to make some moves. More than 50% of marriages end in divorce, and the ones that last are probably unhappy anyway, so you probably won’t meet your one-and-only this week (or ever; the concept is a sham), but that doesn’t mean you can’t still make some shopping week sparks fly. Get shopping!