answer: #Person1#'s acceptance letter to Yale arrived and #Person1# asks #Person2#'s help to choose classes. #Person1# has to take fundamental courses because every student must take some classes in history, English, science, etc, which is different from the Chinese and British education system.
documents: #Person1#: Guess what came in the mail today?
  #Person2#: What?
  #Person1#: My acceptance letter to Yale!
  #Person2#: Wow! Congratulation! When do classes start?
  #Person1#: Freshman orientation is the last week of august, but I want to go two weeks before that to get settled in.
  #Person2#: You're so lucky! Do you have to do many things before you leave?
  #Person1#: Yes. I'll be very busy! I have to get a visa, buy a plane ticket, and pack my things. But first, I want to register for classes.
  #Person2#: When can you do that?
  #Person1#: Well, they sent me their prospectus, so I can start looking now. do you want to help me decide which classed to take?
  #Person2#: Sure. What can you choose from?
  #Person1#: Well, I have to take all the fundamental course, plus a few from my major.
  #Person2#: What is your major?
  #Person1#: I hope to major in English literature, but the admissions counselor told me that many people change their major many times in their first year, so we'll see.
  #Person2#: What are the fundamental course?
  #Person1#: In order to graduate, every student must take a certain amount of classes in history, math, English, philosophy, science and art.
  #Person2#: Interesting. That's very different from the Chinese education system.
  #Person1#: Yes, it is. It's also very different from the British education system.
  #Person2#: Really?
  #Person1#: oh, sure. In British, students don't have to take the foundation course.
  #Person2#: why not?
  #Person1#: maybe because they think they know everything already! ha ha.