Carnegie Mellon University

The ORIGINS Experience

Start your transition to Carnegie Mellon early.

The ORIGINS Experience is a year-long inclusion program that begins a few days prior to First-Year Orientation. The ORIGINS Experience focuses on community building and leadership development for historically and socially marginalized first-year students, specifically uplifting social identities in gender identity, gender expression, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. We also center first generation and under-resourced student populations.

Like all of our programs, all students are welcome to join the ORIGINS Experience.