Know Your Resource: Flipping Failure

Whether you are new to MIT or a returning student, you might feel anxious about what lies ahead this semester - choosing or changing your research focus, managing competing priorities, or defining a career path. You are not alone! TLL’s Flipping Failure initiative aims to provide visibility to stories of academic challenge and resilience so that we can begin shifting the conversation around struggle from a source of shame to a source of learning and growth.

• Explore their website and browse through the 20+ stories about the challenges experienced by students at MIT and the strategies they use to cope with them.
• Sign up for Flipping Failure's newsletter to receive timely highlights and activities to help you navigate challenges you may be experiencing. (Check out the first two issues from March/April and May/June.)
• If you have your own story of academic challenge and would like to share what you learned with peers, fill out this form, and they will keep you informed of our next storytelling workshop series.

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Claim your free ticket to ClimateTech

Attend ClimateTech for a solutions-oriented look at how to address the climate crisis through technology, policy, and societal changes. MIT Technology Review brings together leaders that are funding, creating, and deploying climate technologies to accelerate the transition to a green economy. A limited number of free in-person tickets are available to the MIT community. Register to join world-class tech leaders at this exclusive event.

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The Chancellor's Community Innovation Fund is back!

Founded and supported by the Office of the Chancellor, the Community Innovation Fund seeks to leverage the creativity and problem-solving skills of MIT students, staff, and faculty to strengthen the fabric of our community. This year, MindHandHeart invites all members of the MIT community to submit applications for programs that support the Chancellor’s Whole Student initiative via one of three themes:

1. Knowledge is Power: Building a More Dynamic MIT
2. Building Belonging: Fostering Community and Wellbeing
3. Cultivating a PEMS Mindset: Physical, Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual Growth

If you are interested in applying to or learning more about the Chancellor's Community Innovation Fund, please visit the MindHandHeart website.
Applications will open September 18th, 2023, and close October 6th, 2023.

Registration for ‘Step Your Way’ is open!

Need some motivation to get and stay active this fall? Join the MIT community for this 6-week walking challenge that starts on Monday, October 2.

Learn more and sign up through their website.

• The goal of the challenge is to help you increase your daily physical activity.
• Sign up, participate, and you just might win one of 20 getfit backpacks!
• After you have registered, join their Slack channel and/or private Facebook group where you can get support, share encouragement, and celebrate your achievements.
• Register by Sunday, October 1.

For more information, including a list of free, step-counting apps for your smartphone, visit their website: getfit.mit.edu/steps

MIT Energy and Climate Hack Application

Interested in Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change and sustainable energy and tackling real-world problems while interacting with competitors and sponsor representatives? Apply to the 2023 MIT Energy and Climate Hack by October 6 (free swag, food and prizes included)! Apply here to attend the 2023 MIT Energy and Climate Hack at no cost using this link before October 6!