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	<title>Overheard In Providence &#187; MIT</title>
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		<title>Moving sculpture</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the 20th century, before I had committed to a lifetime of study at Brown, I was foolish enough to apply early to MIT. Thankfully I was deferred and later rejected (on my 18th/golden birthday no less!), but not before paying a visit to their lovely campus and seeing the MIT museum. Even [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Way back in the 20th century, before I had committed to a lifetime of study at Brown, I was foolish enough to apply early to MIT. Thankfully I was deferred and later rejected (on my 18th/<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#038;q=golden+birthday&#038;btnG=Google+Search" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/www.google.com');">golden</a> birthday no less!), but not before paying a visit to their <a href="http://photo.igorfoox.com/d/98-3/mit1.jpg" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/photo.igorfoox.com');">lovely campus</a> and seeing the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/index.html" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/web.mit.edu');">MIT museum</a>. Even if you&#8217;re not interested in attending MIT, the museum is worth a visit. Be warned, it is most definitively science oriented, but in a way that highlights curiosity and creativity rather than say, specific scientific theories.</p>
<p>The most memorable&mdash;and as an 18 year old, inspirational&mdash;exhibition was the kinetic sculptures of <a href="http://www.arthurganson.com/" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/www.arthurganson.com');">Arthur Ganson</a> (and fortunately for you, it&#8217;s <a href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/ganson.html" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/web.mit.edu');">still there</a>). As an artistically inclined computer scientist who&#8217;s also a pretty good juggler, I&#8217;m essentially Ganson&#8217;s core demographic. Had Brown&#8217;s sculpture class been easier to get into, I think I would have produced similar works, but alas, it was not to be. For now, I continue to attend Brown, diligently focusing on the far less physical world of computer science. To that end, I just came across Arthur Ganson&#8217;s <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/267" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/www.ted.com');">TED Talk</a>, which I&#8217;ve embedded below.</p>
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