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Oh yes lades and gents, it's that time again. With registration coming in fast and furious this week, if you haven't worked out your spring semester schedule with iCal just yet, you better get started! Just before the fall semester, we showed you all the Global Core classes offered in the fall, and lo and behold we're doing it again. However, before you go back into the archives to look at that post, we're here to let you know that the list of approved courses has been updated as of 11.10.11. But if looking at that list doesn't tickle your fancy, you can click past the jump to see all the Global Core classes that will be offered in spring 2012.

Registration for spring 2012: it's happening. Right now, in fact. And choosing which courses you'll take can be a tricky game—especially when it's for one of those generic "basic requirements" classes that have 30 million sections (all of which seem to fill up three minutes after registration opens). The extremely sophisticated selection method is to go to SSOL and click "add" on the first open section. The results? Predictably mixed. So, here are the best sections for some of the most commonly offered courses this spring. Decisions were made based on CULPA reviews of the professors. When CULPA reviews weren't available, I googled professor names. When that turned up a blank, I made stuff up went with the most convenient class times. Art Hum and Music Hum don't have instructors listed; when/if they ever do, I'll work on that. For now we've got foreign languages and calculus. Here we go.

Being a college student in the city has its incredible pros, but there are also some pocket-emptying cons. There's the cost of tuition, a meal plan, books, and excursions around New York, which are all expected, but when one of your classes costs two or three times more than your others combined, you've got yourself a problem. With the shopping period nearing its end, read on to see what classes will clear out your already empty pockets as a college student.

Registering for classes is tricky. Students draw out strategies and game plans, tactful like Odysseus. When registration day arrives, they flock to SSOL, armed with endless stickies of call numbers and fantasy schedules. And so, the race to claim the best classes begins.

Have you taken a class that completely boosted your GPA without putting in a lot of time and effort? Submit the classes you've gotten easy A's in.

Last week we brought you the inside scoop on Team CULPA, and now that class registration is in full swing, we're back with more information about the site itself. The editor we interviewed was kind enough to send along some statistics for the website, with results both expected and surprising.

Well, maybe not all of them. But Spectrum did score an interview with one of the CULPA editors, and while we still don't know the algorithm it uses to calculate gold nuggets, we did learn some surprising information.

The second-most viewed page on CULPA, behind only the home page, consists of possibly the least-helpful class reviews of all time. Not to say they aren't entertaining—it's just that Prof. Ted Mosby, one of the crew from CBS's How I Met Your Mother, doesn't actually teach at Columbia.

Columbia has many Global Core classes that look thrilling, but unfortunately aren't offered next fall, or quite frankly, any semester. In addition, some classes aren't on That List but do count toward the Global Core requirement. To aid your course selection (and ours), Spectrum has compiled a list of every Global Core class that is actually offered next semester.Let us know if there's a class you want us to look into.