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Pedro Saltos Montenegro | Living with my dad, a COVID-19 patient

(07/26/20 5:11pm)

Despite attending the Wharton’s “Epidemics, Natural Disasters, and Geopolitics” class on the novel coronavirus, I was nowhere near prepared to see the suffering of someone who had this virus. This personal story is told from the point of view of one of the greatest skeptics of this disease. I am one of those people who supported the opening of the economy at all costs and believed that the strict regulations many countries were taking were absurd. 

https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/07/living-with-my-dad-a-covid-19-patient

Pedro Saltos Montenegro | The challenges of studying at Penn in a foreign language

(06/04/20 8:01pm)

Have you ever wondered what it is like to go to college in a foreign country where you will have to speak, read, and write in a different language? Well, let me tell you that attending any university, especially an Ivy League institution, is challenging enough, and if you add to this the complexity of converting the information you receive from your professors, classmates, and friends to your native language, for me Spanish, we are talking about a task that will always require extra effort. 

https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/06/english-spanish-esl-education-foreign-language-international-student

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