Varun P – Swanson School of Engineering

May 31, 2026

Reflections of Brazil

For the second half of our two weeks abroad, our group flew westward across the entirety of Brazil to the state of Paraná, to the…

Exploring São Leopoldo

Only an hour’s drive from Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, lies São Leopoldo, a small but lively town where our group…

Bom Dia, Brasil!

Hi everyone! My name is Varun Patel, and I am a third-year student at the University of Pittsburgh studying Computer Engineering and Mathematics, and I…