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GFF Alumni share holiday plans and greetings!

GFF Alumni share holiday plans and greetings!

Dec 21, 2021 | Where Are They Now? — 2021

We spoke with several of our GFF alumni to find out what they’ve been up to and how they will be spending the holidays. Along with several photos, here’s what they shared…

Maya Benyas attends Stanford University

Maya Benyas attends Stanford University

Nov 1, 2021 | Where Are They Now? — 2021

Maya Benyas began her first semester at Stanford University this fall and she has hit the ground running!

Gabriela Benyas attends Columbia University in NYC.

Gabriela Benyas attends Columbia University in NYC.

Oct 28, 2021 | Where Are They Now? — 2021

Gabriela Benyas has settled in with her roommate at Columbia University in New York City. In addition, she has been meeting and networking with a variety of people during her first semester.

Celebrating GFF Alumni 2021 Graduates!

Celebrating GFF Alumni 2021 Graduates!

May 22, 2021 | Where Are They Now? — 2021

The Garwin Family Foundation celebrates alumni GFF scholarship recipients Maya Benyas, Charlie Du, Ananth Panchamuhki, and Eli Tsung, who have successfully completed their studies.

Celebrating Maya Benyas — 2019 & 2018 GFF Alumnus

Celebrating Maya Benyas — 2019 & 2018 GFF Alumnus

May 3, 2021 | Where Are They Now? — 2021

Maya has been busy collecting awards and accomplishments since we last spoke with her.​

Celebrating GFF Alumni Eli Tsung & Rea Yoh

Celebrating GFF Alumni Eli Tsung & Rea Yoh

Apr 18, 2021 | Where Are They Now? — 2021

Congratulations to Eli Tsung and Rea Yoh for their recent accomplishments!

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  • GFF Alumnus Evan Wiggs Studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.
  • Liam Batteau attends a summer immersion jazz workshop at Stanford University.
  • Mollie Mandell studies “Biology and Its Modern Applications” at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.
  • Alexei Kadyrov attends the Washington University Research Development Institute.
  • Alexei Kadyrov studies Combinatorics 1.5 at AwesomeMath
  • Ryan Dai attends the Summer@Brown Pre-College Program.
  • Zoya Chowdhury studies “Explorations in Neuroscience” at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.

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Words of Wisdom

“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

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“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 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

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

— Plutarch

“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

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

— Aristotle

“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

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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

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

— Rene Descartes

“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
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