[Dan from Michigan]

In my opinion, most poli sci curricula do not offer the "hands on" practical knowledge needed to run for office as a candidate.

I took a year and 1/2 off(Smartest move I made) of school before going back. The field experience was the best thing for me.

Of the classes I took, 40% was a complete waste of my time outside of credits. Most of this was general requirements and the PC garbage. 30% was theory and or/history and related. 10% was polls and related.

Unfortunatly, there was no class on campaigning fieldwork outside of an independent study one which didn't work well for someone who went through three majors.

[MIT-Elephant]

Of the classes I took, 40% was a complete waste of my time outside of credits. Most of this was general requirements and the PC garbage. 30% was theory and or/history and related. 10% was polls and related.

Exactly...for me, about 80% of my engineering curriculum was useful stuff, and I could take the meaningful humanities courses without getting herded into 'contemporary lesbian women's issues in the empowerment remodernization movement of contemporary post-Soviet central Asian contemporary affairs."

(You don't know how fun it was to write that)