<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5548e8d-7fff-5db7-e75a-099c4e41e977" class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">--------------------</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">--------------</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">--------------</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">--------------</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">--------------</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">--------------</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">----</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience</span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wednesday, Apr. 3rd, 2019 6:00pm</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location: 10-250</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Free tickets </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fail-inspiring-resilience-mit-tickets-58981172274?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR1ou8eD2hv5J0cCPwdHXboH9UfrSUswhpy2PPNg4fATtQRapyiGUJkpZw8" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HERE</span></a></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/387364195185097/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook Event Page</span></a></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMdcOG3Afrk&feature=youtu.be" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Watch the trailer</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How many times have you suffered from the notion that “failure is not an option”? Yet, a misstep can happen at any time and to everyone, even professionals, experts, CEO’s, or professors. For this reason, we bring them to FAIL!, an event aimed at understanding the deeper meaning of failures, and how to accept, understand, and conquer these.</span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">April 3rd at 6 pm</span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, we will have brilliant guests from MIT and Harvard like:</span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6451" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amy Edmondson</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harvard Business School</span><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/asbosh" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amanda Bosh</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: MIT Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://anthropology.mit.edu/people/faculty/susan-silbey" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Susan Silbey</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: MIT Anthropology</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://polisci.mit.edu/people/regina-bateson" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regina Bateson</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: MIT Political Science</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></div><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Former FAIL! Speaker, </span><a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/dnj/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b class="">Professor Daniel Jackson</b></span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, will return to the conference to speak about his </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gnhINJLJC0" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FAIL! experience</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and his book </span><a href="https://www.portraitsofresilience.com/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Portraits of Resilience</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and</span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> every attendee will receive a free copy</span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event will be hosted by Kirsty Bennett from MIT Women's League and moderated by Marcia Bartusiak from MIT Science Writing program, and is organized by the FAIL! Organizing Team. We also thank the MIT MindHandHeart, the Graduate Student Council, the Teaching and Learning Lab, and the Sandbox Initiative Fund for their sponsorship.</span></div><br class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">For more questions, contact </span><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="white-space: normal;"><a href="mailto:fail.inspiringresilience@gmail.com" class="">fail.inspiringresilience@gmail.com</a></span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="14828DD1-4DFF-4ED5-8D81-6DF3CDA5DC94" class="" src="cid:8B99D78B-5341-401F-91B9-3EE8868F7502@mit.edu"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
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