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Final Reflection on My 2019 Summer Enrichment Experience at Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Program

Final Reflection on My 2019 Summer Enrichment Experience at Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Program

Aug 6, 2019 | News

Emily Jung reports on her summer experience at Stanford where she studied Cryptography. This is the second of her two programs underwritten by GFF.

Final Reflection on My 2019 Summer Enrichment Experience at Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program

Final Reflection on My 2019 Summer Enrichment Experience at Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program

Jul 25, 2019 | News

Arkaprabha Kolay reports on his summer experience at the Math and Science Scholars program at the University of Michigan.

Final Reflection on My 2019 Summer Internship at the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Foundation 

Final Reflection on My 2019 Summer Internship at the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Foundation 

Jul 22, 2019 | News

Emily Jung reports on her summer experience at the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Foundation in Seoul, Korea. This is the first of her two programs underwritten by GFF.

Final Reflection on My 2019 Summer Enrichment Experience at Brown University’s STEM II Program

Final Reflection on My 2019 Summer Enrichment Experience at Brown University’s STEM II Program

Jul 22, 2019 | News

Longmei Ge reports on her summer program experience in Marine Biology at Brown University.

Final Reflection on My 2019 Summer Enrichment Experience at Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Program

Emily Jung arrives at Stanford University to begin her program in cryptography

Jul 20, 2019 | News

Emily Jung begins her second GFF-sponsored summer experience at Stanford University where she will study cryptography.

Charlie Du attends the PROMYS Mathematics Program for Young Scientists at Boston

Charlie Du attends the PROMYS Mathematics Program for Young Scientists at Boston

Jul 15, 2019 | News

Charlie Du arrives at Boston University to attend the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS).

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Words of Wisdom

“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

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— 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

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Aristotle

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Plutarch

“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

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

— W. Clement Stone

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“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

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

— Frank McCourt

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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