The 2025 MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP) begins on Monday, January 6, 2025 and ends on Friday, January 31, 2025 . Check the MIT Events Calendar for non-credit courses and activities, or the online subject listings for for-credit courses; the Registrar’s Office also has information on how to register for IAP. Note that all members of the MIT community may participate in IAP non-credit activities: faculty, students, staff, and alumni. IAP is not open to the general public or non-MIT-affiliated groups. 

Below is an evolving list of IAPs hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other departments. If you're a member of the Media Lab community and hosting an IAP activity this year, please email Amanda Diehl (adiehl@media.mit.edu) to have it added to the list! 

• Beyond the Lab: Journey from Scientist to Founder. Non-credit. Hosted by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences and the E14 Fund. Learn more and register.
  
•  Decentralized Society and Cooperative Dynamics. Non-credit. Led by Wes Chow (MIT Center for Constructive Communication). Register here.
• IAP Build for Ukraine. Non-credit. Hosted by Phil Tinn (City Science alum) and Nina Lutz (Object-based Media alum). Learn more and register.
• How might we collectively shape a more sustainable future for MIT? Non-credit. Note: open to UROPs / MIT undergraduates. Led by Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou and Marina Rakhilin (MIT Center for Constructive Communication). Learn more and register.
  
• Tentative: IAP Session with Kenvue, Affective Computing, and Multisensory Intelligence. Non-credit. Led by Media Lab professors Rosalind Picard and Paul Liang, in collaboration with Media Lab member company Kenvue. Details forthcoming!