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It has been two and a half years of being in this college class getting a degree but it seems the people I find interesting are always outside my class.
Good practice for life after college. If you make friends with people outside of your immediate department at work then fewer people can scr*w you over - tell your secrets to get 'in' with powerful people; take advantage of your desire to protect the friendship by asking more favours than is reasonable; de-prioritize quality time with you because you work together all the time. Also, if you're not right in each other's space, your friends are far enough away not to know all your bad working habits but close enough that you can give each other a leg up (for example, being friends with the librarian in one of the places I've worked was quite useful - in unexpected ways).
Sounds a bit weird. I'd get it if it had been just a year... I ended up getting close to the people I had nothing in common with within a year in college.
I never felt a bond with anyone throughout any of my school years or at any place where i've worked and I don't care either.
The only potential drawback I can see is that many people make connections while at university that can be beneficial once they're out in the real world.
I suppose this might be more important in the UK than in the USA (where I assume you are), since UK universities don't work on a credit system where you have to take various classes that don't directly relate to your degree title, but are instead tightly focused on the subject and everyone on the course takes all the same classes. In fact, it's very difficult to get through a UK degree course without forming some sort of bond with at least a few classmates since you're forced to work together, and the pool of potential partners is usually pretty small.
I also assume you're in a four-year degree programme. While I think there's nothing wrong or unusual in you feeling that you don't have much in common with the people you've encountered in your freshman and junior core curriculum classes, I think that once you start to work through the courses required for your major, it might be useful for you to make a little effort to get to know your classmates just because of the long-term networking thing.
social learning is important, but the most important is the education and you can gain that with near to none bonding with class mates.