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<li><p>Graduate students do research, but research does not require graduate students, just a professor. There may be less overall research being done at Mudd, but there is certainly enough for an eager student to do as much as he or she wants. The school has fewer professors than universities but also has far fewer students, and can therefore have professors working directly with students. The breadth of the research being done is undoubtedly narrower given there are fewer professors to span their field, but the generally areas are easily covered.</p></li>
<li><p>I’m pretty sure study abroad is solely dependent on the student, I’ve known many people go study abroad and I haven’t heard of anyone not going because of limitations on the part of the college. I don’t quite know what you mean by internships, those are generally found outside of your school at companies. There are summer research positions available, but again, Mudd is considered a small school, but people don’t take into account that it has 750 students, which is itself a smaller number, so you have far less competition for the comparatively small number of available slots.</p></li>
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<p>As for the type of student at Mudd, everyone is required to go through a very tough and broad core curriculum, encompassing more than you’ll ever want to know about physics, chemistry, math with some biology, computer science, and engineering as well. You won’t be able to do it all by yourself and you will likely be humbled, but if you work hard with some friends you should be able to get through it. And then you do your major. Basically, you’re tortured for 4 years and have to be able to withstand the pain, but you’ll be with like-minded individuals who are passionate about math/science/engineering, which is nice.</p>