“In reality, a lot of us are anxious, stressed, unhappy, numb. The fact that a class like this has such large interest speaks to how tired students are of numbing their emotions — both positive and negative — so they can focus on their work, the next step, the next accomplishment.” The NYT’s David Shimer sits in on a Yale class so popular that a quarter of the school’s undergrads enrolled: Psyc 157, Psychology and the Good Life (otherwise known as Happiness). I open 75 news tabs a day. Yale should invite me to offer counter-programming.