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GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang begins her first semester at MIT.

GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang begins her first semester at MIT.

Oct 6, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We have heard from GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang who is attending her first semester at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

GFF Alumnus Lauren Fakhoury begins her first semester at NYU.

GFF Alumnus Lauren Fakhoury begins her first semester at NYU.

Oct 1, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We have received news from GFF Alumnus Lauren Fakhoury, who has returned to New York City where she is currently attending NYU.

Safwan Morshed studies Physics of Stars at the University of Chicago.

Safwan Morshed studies Physics of Stars at the University of Chicago.

Jul 31, 2023 | News

Safwan spent the first week exploring the campus, getting to know his instructors, and connecting with students from around the world.

Bill Xu studies Remote Sensing for Disaster Response at the MIT BeaverWorks Summer Institute.

Bill Xu studies Remote Sensing for Disaster Response at the MIT BeaverWorks Summer Institute.

Jul 31, 2023 | News

The virtual class of 28 students hit the ground running as they collaborated on their first project—building something in Minecraft with assistance from TA instructors.

Robert Wigfall studies Introduction to Ethics at the Harvard University Pre-College Program.

Robert Wigfall studies Introduction to Ethics at the Harvard University Pre-College Program.

Jul 23, 2023 | News

Robert explored the Cambridge campus, the city of Boston, networked at several extracurricular events, and dove into his coursework.

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Words of Wisdom

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Frank McCourt

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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

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

— W. Clement Stone

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Plutarch

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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

— Aristotle

“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

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

— Aristotle
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