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IVYESSAYS LAW SCHOOL ESSAY PACKAGE ­ OVERCOMING OBSTACLES 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.  Personal Statement #1 "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 disappeared. I wanted to discuss this condition because I believe that, as