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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;">Subject: [ISO] IAP events to share</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;">January 13, 2020 at 3:31:51 PM EST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Can you please spread the word about three IAP events co-sponsored by ISO?<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><b>All of them are open to the entire MIT community, so please feel free to attend all
 of them as staff.</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;<i>The Immigration Attorney visit on 1/27 is targeted especially to international students.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Mon, 1/27 Working After Graduation: Immigration Concerns (<i>Immigration Attorney Visit</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Here is a list of all the ISO co-sponsored IAP events, including the Language Conversation Exchange (LCE) events:<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns170.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns170.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thank you in advance!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dana Riechman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Lucida Grande&quot;,sans-serif">Cultural Awareness: Communicating More Effectively in a Global Community</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Lucida Grande&quot;,sans-serif;color:#222222">In this lively, interactive seminar,&nbsp;Bhaskar&nbsp;Pant, Executive Director of MIT Professional Education and a globally-experienced&nbsp;senior executive and&nbsp;lecturer in intercultural
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<h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Lucida Grande&quot;,sans-serif">Working After Graduation - Immigration Concerns</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
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 time beyond your student Optional Practical Training or Academic Training?&nbsp;Planning to launch a startup?&nbsp;We invite you to attend a presentation from Iandoli Desai &amp; Cronin P.C., an immigration law firm in Boston, to learn about the various visa options and
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 617-253-3795,&nbsp;<a href="mailto:riechman@mit.edu"><span style="color:#0022FF;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">riechman@mit.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 subject usually given the least amount of study; that subject is the self.&nbsp; I realized that I was going on through my existence feeling many times like I was dragging a great bag filled with some discomfort that I wasn't quite sure what it was.&nbsp; This affected
 my daily life in negative ways, the most common of which was keeping me from my best.&nbsp; I have made it my business to get to understand me and through that I have gotten to understand most others. Through paying attention, I can report that I found a way to
 get 'clear' about why I do what I do and this has opened the door to me changing the things I need to and want to change.&nbsp; Humor has been my saving grace and combining humor with respectful contemplation I can share ways to become clear and then free from
 what holds us back.&nbsp; However, I only point the path to the water and sometimes lead the horse there, ultimately the horse must decide to drink.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 to success. This workshop will offer tools and guidance to help find our way through the cobwebs of our own limiting beliefs.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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