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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.

Myra Anderson studies Dissecting Life: Human Anatomy and Physiology at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

Myra Anderson studies Dissecting Life: Human Anatomy and Physiology at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

Jul 23, 2023 | News

Myra Anderson reports that her time at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars program has been “busy, challenging and fun.” She has adjusted to the quick pace of her course, and is learning how to take notes at the college level.

Kaleb Yoast studies Organic Chemistry at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

Kaleb Yoast studies Organic Chemistry at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

Jul 23, 2023 | News

“This first week of MMSS has been very exciting. I have had the most wonderful time getting to know the university. As for the class, it has been pretty challenging but I am pushing through. At the end of class we took little trips all over the campus, we went to the law building, a museum, and a science center,” Kaleb says.

Ini-Obong Epke studies Dissecting Life: Human Anatomy and Physiology at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program

Ini-Obong Epke studies Dissecting Life: Human Anatomy and Physiology at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program

Jul 18, 2023 | News

Ini-Obong describes her first week at MMSS as “very exciting.” She has settled in with roommates, met with instructors, and started “diving into classes immediately with lectures and dissections, as well as assigning presentation groups and topics.”

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“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

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Winston Churchill

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Frank McCourt

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Malcolm Forbes

“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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Aristotle

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

— Plutarch

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

— Aristotle

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Edmund Burke
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