<p>I was accepted into CIT a couple weeks ago (was informed by a coach) to study mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, and I was wondering about the gen ed requirements that CIT students need to complete. I read the section on the website, but it wasn't very specific. My questions are 1. what classes exactly do I have to take? Am I going to have to take a foreign language because I was kind of hoping to avoid that... 2. If I am double majoring in mechE and bme, would I be able to also major in music performance while continuing to remain in the realm of the living? I hear about the difficulty of CMU's coursework all the time, and I am just not sure if I would be able to double major in engineering and minor in engineering. Any replies are greatly appreciated :)</p>
<p>Well I think you shouldn’t worry too much about what exact classes you want to take at this point. Enjoy senior year and your advisor will walk you through it in the summer.
You will start worrying about picking your gen eds maybe Fall/Spring semester once you get here and talk to people.
With that said, you have a LOT of options for classes. The requirements are “areas” and each area can be fulfilled by a crapton of courses. No you don’t have to take a foreign language</p>
<p>I don’t think you’ll have time for triple major, pulling off a double major while being on a team is very hard. Athletics is pretty time consuming, contrary to popular belief. You would be able to pull off a mechE bmE double but I don’t know where you’ll squeeze in music classes. (You can take music as a hobby, there are organizations around)</p>
<p>Thanks for responding! I could squeeze some music classes in for the gen eds definitely, but you’re right; it would be hard to double major and minor in music too. I could definitely just take private music lessons and join an ensemble.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that most of your gen eds would be filled by your biomed double major, so if you’d want to do music, make it more of a free-time hobby rather than a strict letter-grade course. </p>
<p>Keep in mind though, that being a BME double major does not get you out of any of the non-technical gen eds required by CIT.</p>