MISTI es un programa de MIT que envía a estudiantes al extranjero para experiencias a medida de sus intereses académicos y profesionales.
MISTI opera en Brazil, China, Francia, Alemania, India, Israel, Italia, Japón, México, España y varias naciones en Africa. Su más nuevo programa es Chile. Este año enviará 593 estudiantes de pregrado y graduados de MIT al extranjero.

‘I speak MISTI’
MIT program sends students abroad for experiences tailor-made for their academic and professional interests.

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Three summers ago, Christopher Love went to Italy for an international experience to complement the undergraduate research he’d been doing at MIT.

Working at Enel, the second-largest power company in Europe, he helped design a new kind of hybrid solar-geothermal powerplant, an experience he says solidified his interest in energy research. Love, now a graduate student in mechanical engineering, liked it so much that he went back for a second summer with the same firm.

What Love wasn’t expecting was that his time in Italy would offer a significant personal development as well: He ended up discovering some long-lost relatives.

“I knew my grandmother’s maiden name was Ferrari — like the car — and I did some research online to find her first cousins,” he says. “I visited them, and reconnected with this family with whom the ties were broken after World War II.”

Love found his internship — and, indirectly, his extended family — through MISTI, which stands for MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, a program that sends MIT students overseas for academic and professional opportunities tailored to their interests. Though not all students can claim to have discovered family members, every participant at a Sept. 6 luncheon to celebrate students’ summer experiences was full of stories of how their time abroad had impacted them, both professionally and personally.

These newly selected MISTI ambassadors will be on hand to share their experiences and offer advice to other potential participants at an open house, called “I speak MISTI,” this Wednesday (Sept. 14) from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Stata Center.