By Victoria Mayer In this piece, Victoria Mayer C´21, reflects on the culmination of her Penn education and her experience conducting research with fellow Huntsman students S. Davidson, M. Edgar, L. Matsumiya, and G. Seeley, as part of MGMT 409: Huntsman Capstone Study. The objective of this capstone study in…Read More
By Connie Lin Why did you choose Huntsman? I found out about Huntsman by scrolling through the Penn website a year before I applied and thought I loved it. I was a MUN kid in high school who loved international relations, so I knew that I wanted to do international…Read More
By Mariana Velasco Tell me about yourself. My name is Kelly, and I am a sophomore targeting French. I’m from Cupertino, California, and I’ve lived there my whole life. It’s in the heart of the Silicon Valley, and growing up, I definitely feel like I was pushed in the direction…Read More
By Mariana Velasco What is your target language and where are you from? I am a current freshman from New Jersey targeting Spanish. My family is from somewhere around Eastern Europe, so I have always wanted to go there – my dream trip is to hit Russia and Ukraine with…Read More
By Mariana Velasco Who is Angela? What are some words that describe you? I am a freshman from the Philly suburbs – which is also where I am staying during the semester – and I am targeting Mandarin. I’m very creative, and I have an artistic side – I especially…Read More
By Connie Lin Who is Allison? I’m a senior in Huntsman with my target language in Russian. I’m doing a concentration in strategic management in Wharton and an additional major in Russian and Eastern European studies in the College. I grew up in Los Angeles, but my family is from…Read More
Interviewed by Emily Despinoy I feel like life is a constant struggle to reach certain higher goals. The ones that I want to work toward are freedom, loyalty, and diligence. The Basics: Couloir is currently a Senior targeting and minoring in German, and concentrating in Statistics and Finance. In addition,…Read More
By Mariana Velasco I grew up fascinated by current events. Every morning I would read the Wall Street Journal; every night I would bond with my father by watching the news. I had been to Israel quite a few times, and I speak Hebrew fluently. What began as an interest…Read More
By Mariana Velasco Grace is a senior targeting Spanish originally from Minnesota. She is concentrating in Finance and Decision Processes at Wharton, as well as minoring in Hispanic Studies and Music in the College. Tell me more about your minor in Music, how did that happen? I am a classical…Read More
By Mariana Velasco Theo is a current sophomore from Austin, Texas targeting Spanish and involved in improvisational comedy on campus. Tell me about your background and what drew you to Huntsman. I am both Nigerian and British, and I am a first generation American, so I have tri citizenship. I…Read More
By Mariana Velasco Huntsman students Samidha Sane ’22, Nikhil Gupta ’22 and Ayina Anyachebelu ’22, along with Eugenia Lee (University of Chicago) and Logan Herman (Carnegie Mellon), participated in the MIT Covid-19 Hackathon to produce a project that would solve challenges related to the pandemic in Africa, and won as…Read More
By Matteo Brunel I didn’t go into my semester abroad in Milan, Italy at Bocconi University with any particular expectations. I was just excited to strengthen my Italian speaking skills and spend time with my family. I arrived in Italy mid-January to spend a week in Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany…Read More
By Mariana Velasco Cole is a rising senior targeting German born and raised in Colorado. What is something that not a lot of people at Penn know about you? A lot of people at Penn don´t know that I am a super outdoorsy guy, I was an Eagle Scout and…Read More
By Mariana Velasco There is definitely something special about Penn and Huntsman – I am very glad to be a student here. Who is Joshita? I am from the suburbs of Philly, from this town called Exton in Pennsylvania. My target language is Mandarin, and I am a junior at…Read More
By Mariana Velasco If you had told me that I would spend my entire freshman summer in France, Portugal, and Morocco as a student journalist for the Pulitzer Center, I would not have believed you. Penn and Huntsman have opened a number of doors for me, and I feel so fortunate…Read More
By Couloir X. Hanson The search for identity has characterized my life, as well as my time in Huntsman. Being Korean, I’ve long been preoccupied with the question of reuniting North and South Korea. Constantly moving around while growing up allowed me to pick and choose different cultural traits. After…Read More
Have Some Fun With Your Zoom Virtual Background Instead of showing everyone your messy room, wouldn’t you rather join your virtual class or meeting representing Huntsman? Now you can when you transform your video background on Zoom. Want to try it out? Just follow the steps below. How to…Read More 
By Couloir X. Hanson Two long-lost Slavic kindred spirits reunited by their passion for the Huntsman Program. “We’ve had oddly similar life trajectories from attending local public schools to American boarding schools to targeting German in the Huntsman Program. Sometimes it feels like we’re taking turns living the same life.”…Read More
For me, living at 'home' required a student visa. Jonathan Lahdo August 29, 2018 An answer to “where are you from?” should come easily enough; and for most people, it does. After all, even if you were born, say, to immigrant parents, you can almost always think of home as Genericville,…Read More 
A Comparative Analysis Cole Hancock Abstract This paper seeks to explore the different plausible and implemented applications of blockchain technology in the beef industry in two representative markets: The United States and Kenya. Previous papers discuss implementation of blockchain to the beef industry, without a focus on the variations between…Read More
