Six Monterey Institute students and alumni received U.S. Fulbright scholarship awards for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Scholarship funds are still available for fall 2013 admission to our graduate programs.
Meet Kathi, TESOL professor and winner of the 2013 Leslie Eliason Excellence in Teaching Award.
Students discuss their work with the indigenous people of the Sacred Valley of Perú.
Catherine turned an internship into a leadership position promoting permaculture in Malawi.
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Hsin-Nien Tao, Translation & Interpretation Student Ambassador
May 28, 2012
Undergrad: National Taipei University
Major: Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics
Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan
My favorite place in Monterey is the coastline from Fisherman’s Wharf to Lover’s Point. I like going for walks or bike rides along that path. It’s beautiful!!
I’m currently working as an enrollment assistant in the enrollment office so I can answer all your questions about T&I enrollment!
I want to sit in the simultaneous interpretation booths in the United Nations as a conference interpreter one day.
“Just keep swimming.” – Dori
I’ve had scoliosis surgery but that doesn’t stop me from playing volleyball!
If you were a food, you would be:
Chocolate covered sea salt caramels. Yum.
What has been the highlight of your MIIS experience thus far?
Meeting all the wonderful people here and making friends.
And one last thing:
I love music. I have to have music playing almost all the time and this can be a bit of a problem when I should be listening to my own recording or practicing simultaneous interpretation.
