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Ahmik Ahmed studies Biology and Its Modern Applications at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.

Ahmik Ahmed studies Biology and Its Modern Applications at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.

Jul 28, 2024 | News

During his first week, Ahmik enjoyed exploring the campus and learning interesting facts about the university.

Sydney Davis attends the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop.

Sydney Davis attends the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop.

Jul 28, 2024 | News

During her first week of the course, Sydney spent time reading and annotating passages from the Kenyon Review. “The pieces we’re reading range from essays and poems to short stories,” Sydney explains.

Tanya Arun studies Foundations of Psychological Research at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.

Tanya Arun studies Foundations of Psychological Research at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.

Jul 28, 2024 | News

Tanya Arun reports on her virtual course “Foundations of Psychological Research” from the University of Chicago. Tanya spent her first week learning about the sub-fields of psychology, animal models, and research methods.

Addison Krotz studies “Forensic Physics” at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars program.

Addison Krotz studies “Forensic Physics” at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars program.

Jul 23, 2024 | News

After settling in her dorm, Addison was happy to meet up with GFF students Zoya Chowdhury and Francis Bu who are also attending MMSS. She also met her roommate and explored the campus at MMSS.

Liam Batteau attends High School Jazz Intensive in Bass at the University of Cincinnati.

Liam Batteau attends High School Jazz Intensive in Bass at the University of Cincinnati.

Jul 22, 2024 | News

Liam has been adjusting to dorm life and learning music theory. He says that his first week has been filled with “exciting and interesting moments.”

Myra Anderson studies Computational Biology at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program

Myra Anderson studies Computational Biology at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program

Jul 18, 2024 | News

During her first week, Myra settled into her dorm room, connected with students from around the world, and made friends with students who are attending other courses as they shared their individual stories and experiences.

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Words of Wisdom

“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

“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

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

— Winston Churchill

“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

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“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

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“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

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— Aristotle

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Malcolm Forbes

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus
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