“My hopes that the internship would be possible were dashed,” rising sophomore Nieky Wang reflects about the impact Covid-19 had on her plans to take part in MIT-India this summer. “I wasn’t sure if I would be personally comfortable with traveling abroad during a pandemic, even if it was allowed by MIT.” Wang is one of many MIT students for whom summer means an MIT International Science and Technology (MISTI) opportunity, with over half of the 1,200 annual student placements taking place during that period. But when Covid-19 shut down…
