The following essays were received into one or more of the following

schools: Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Cornell, Berkeley, NYU, UVA,

Michigan, Georgetown, Columbia, Duke, UNC, U. Penn. 

"You can’t judge a book by its cover."  As a child, this was one cliché to

which I was particularly devoted.  In addition to the customary

difficulties of adjusting to adolescence and a new school environment, I

entered middle school with an unusual liability:  I suffered from facial

tics, the most persistent of which was a frequent, involuntary eye twitch.

Only a few weeks into the seventh grade, I acquired the nickname "Blinky"

and, at an age when insecurities already run rampant, my identity was

permanently defined by the feature which I hated most in myself.  Even back

then I realized that the teasing was always affectionate, and I made

friends quickly; nevertheless, I spent years with a nagging feeling that I

was somehow aberrant.  Gradually, however, my tics diminished in both

frequency and intensity, and by the time I entered college they had largely

I wanted to discuss this condition because I believe that, as

learned from it to other aspects of my life and to the lives of others with

To help maintain control, I avoided the sensorial shock that accompanied

to better the current system, to help those with illnesses and other

However, while the disease is currently not very active, I continue to

cross section of the campus not seen inside any one classroom. The Koala is

book, rather than the quality of the cover--I have always made an effort in

changes in asset allocation that greatly improved the overall return on

contractor-consultant to Touch Technologies, Inc. (TTI). At this software

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