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David Weng studies Algebra 1.5 and Elements of Geometry at AwesomeMath.

David Weng studies Algebra 1.5 and Elements of Geometry at AwesomeMath.

Jul 6, 2022 | News

David Weng reports on his experiences at AwesomeMath, studying Algebra 1.5, and Elements of Geometry.

Lauren Fakhoury studies Latin at City University of New York

Lauren Fakhoury studies Latin at City University of New York

Jul 5, 2022 | News

Lauren Fakhoury is studying Latin at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, this summer. Located in the heart of Manhattan, Lauren is immersed in the “New York Experience.”

Michelle Wang studies Astrophysics in the Summer Science Program at the University of Colorado.

Michelle Wang studies Astrophysics in the Summer Science Program at the University of Colorado.

Jun 27, 2022 | News

Michelle Wang is studying Astrophysics in the Summer Science Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her first research project involves collaborating with her team to determine the path of a near-earth asteroid.

Samuel Wang studies Cancer Research and Biology in the STARS program at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Samuel Wang studies Cancer Research and Biology in the STARS program at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

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Samuel Wang reports on his experiences while studying Cancer Research and Biology at the St. Louis Students and Teachers as Research Scientists (STARS) program at UMSL. During his first week, he has been exploring the campus, meeting instructors, colleagues, and forming friendships.

Robert Wigfall is studying Biotechnology at the University of Chicago.

Robert Wigfall is studying Biotechnology at the University of Chicago.

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Robert Wigfall is studying Biotechnology at the University of Chicago this summer. As a high school freshman attending a college level course, Robert describes his first three weeks at the University of Chicago as “life altering.”

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“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— Rene Descartes

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“Nothing is at last sacred but the quality of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their
opinions, they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks, March

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

— Frank McCourt

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran
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