>>12322169>Political connections?not necessarily, but yes. That's what frats are for.
>Do US colleges really have mandatory courses in unrealted things?Yes. Different colleges call it different things. My college called it 'general education'.
Most of it wasn't bad. It was pretty fun actually. I took a Mayan history class once with an awesome professor. We had a field day once where we threw darts with atlatls. These courses compensate for high schools, which are abysmal in the US. I even had to take a 'first-year writing' course, where they teach you how to write essays like it's middle school. It's really that basic.
That said, I did have to take some retarded 'diversity' courses, but there's usually some 'lesser evil' options, so you don't have to take an African-American women in film course (yes, that was a thing).