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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.

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

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).

Arkaprabha Kolay arrives at Michigan to study Math and Science

Arkaprabha Kolay arrives at Michigan to study Math and Science

Jun 27, 2019 | News

Arkaprabha Kolay, a rising CCHS sophomore, arrives at Michigan for its summer Michigan Math and Science Scholars program.

Maya Benyas arrives at Stanford to begin her Physics program

Maya Benyas arrives at Stanford to begin her Physics program

Jun 26, 2019 | News

Maya Benyas has just settled into her dorm at Stanford and will be studying Physics this summer.

Emily Jung begins her internship at the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Foundation

Emily Jung begins her internship at the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Foundation

Jun 26, 2019 | News

Emily Jung begins her internship at the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Foundation, whose purpose is to promote democracy, peace, and international understanding. This is her first of two programs underwritten by GFF.

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Words of Wisdom

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Winston Churchill

“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

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Frank McCourt

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Plutarch

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

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

— Aristotle

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“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

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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

— Rene Descartes
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