Monterrey, Mexico

The Monterrey, Mexico site is a CTY International site started in 2008. It serves CTYers from Mexico and the United States who are completing grades 9-12.

Campus

The site is housed at ITESM, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, also known as Tec. According to some studies, it is ranked as the top university in Mexico. The university is located in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, in the northern part of the country near the Texas border.

Since 2008 was the site's first year, traditions were scarce and mostly started by CTYers from different campuses; many can recall the sloppy first rendition of American Pie. Among the cultural aspects were the floor wars; Each floor (3, 4, 7 ,8) would essentially scream their number in Spanish (Tres, cuatro, siete, and ocho, respectively) to prove their superiority. The main war was, however, between Cuatro and Ocho. A formal vote of all atendees showed that Cuatro was almost unanimously the victor. The fourth floor (Cuatroes, as the inhabitants were named) were notorious for their behavior; breaking the lights-out rule more often than not, breaking one of the elevators (and being stuck between floors), almost breaking the other elevator, the song-and-dance of the Pokémon theme, and in general taking everything a level too far. The campus motto was "¡Somos primeros!" Spanish for (roughly) "We are the first!"

However, whenever there was free time and we could go on any of the floors, siete's where the party was at. That's probably because some of the coolest people (girls) where on this floor. Eventually, the world was enlightened and everyone realized the siete had the most power in this world. Alex Yu lost alot of respect by being pikachu, which eventually led to the downfall of quatro. Randy Person won all of that respect for wearing a girl's dress and performing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" with Ketul Patel. However, siete remains on top by lending their clothing to both floors for these very entertaining acts.

Courses

All courses at Monterrey are available both in English and in Spanish.

• Rocket Science and Beyond
• Physics in the Real World
• Politics and Film: Latin America
• Introduction to Media Studies
• Latin American Political Theory
• Politics of Trade: the Americas
• Applied Mathematics: Game Theory
• Fundamentals of Computer Science
• Introduction to Biomedical Science
• Chemical Process Engineering
• Biotechnology<-- the best course known to humankind!

External Links

Official JHU page