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Elaina Xiao studies Designing for Assistive Technology at the MIT BeaverWorks Summer Institute.

Elaina Xiao studies Designing for Assistive Technology at the MIT BeaverWorks Summer Institute.

Jul 22, 2022 | News

Elaina Xiao reports on her experiences while attending Designing for Assistive Technology at the MIT BeaverWorks Summer Institute. Elaina says, “This is the most hands-on and interactive learning experience I have ever had remotely.”

Yoonseo Jung studies Fundamentals of Augmented Reality at Stanford University.

Yoonseo Jung studies Fundamentals of Augmented Reality at Stanford University.

Jul 19, 2022 | News

Yoonseo Jung reports on her course, Fundamentals of Augmented Reality, held online via Zoom sessions, at Stanford University. In her first week, Yoonseo met with her classmates which she describes as being “some of the brightest, most hard-working students I’ve ever met.”

Katherine Herzog studies Catalysis, Solar Energy and Green Chemical Synthesis at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program

Katherine Herzog studies Catalysis, Solar Energy and Green Chemical Synthesis at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program

Jul 19, 2022 | News

Katherine Herzog reports on her experiences at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars program where she is studying Catalysis, Solar Energy and Green Chemical Synthesis.

Sydney Davis studies Creative Writing at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio

Sydney Davis studies Creative Writing at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio

Jul 18, 2022 | News

Sydney Davis reports on her experiences at the Iowa Young Writers’ Institute, where she is enrolled in Creative Writing this summer.

David Weng studies Algebra 1.5 and Elements of Geometry at AwesomeMath.

David Weng studies Algebra 1.5 and Elements of Geometry at AwesomeMath.

Jul 6, 2022 | News

David Weng reports on his experiences at AwesomeMath, studying Algebra 1.5, and Elements of Geometry.

Lauren Fakhoury studies Latin at City University of New York

Lauren Fakhoury studies Latin at City University of New York

Jul 5, 2022 | News

Lauren Fakhoury is studying Latin at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, this summer. Located in the heart of Manhattan, Lauren is immersed in the “New York Experience.”

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Aristotle

“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

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Plutarch

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

— Malcolm Forbes

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Aristotle

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

— Frank McCourt

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Marcus Aurelius
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