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Girl Sends MIT Acceptance Letter Into Space, Makes The Rest Of Us Look Like Dimwits

6:15 pm, February 6th | by Hillary Reinsberg


Things that are hard: getting accepted to MIT as a 16-year-old girl. Things that are harder: sending your MIT acceptance letter into space.

Both impressive feats were achieved by Erin King, a 16-year-old from Georgia. It turns out MIT sends its formal acceptance letters in tubes, and it’s apparently become something of a tradition to “hack” those tubes, i.e. finding a cool way to use them for something other than their intended use. King fashioned hers into a rocket with a camera and GPS tracker! She launched the thing into space, let it record its flight, and then retrieved it where it landed. In one word: cool.

[Jezebel via BoingBoing]

 

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    that was way cool!!!

  • Anonymous

     What does it acceptance for the Girl?
    http://ibookmarks.info/story.php?id=98171#discuss

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  • http://www.blog.lotusblossombook.com/ D. M. Kenyon

    It is so impressive to see a young woman “hack the tube” the way Erin King has done here. While some girls are shopping for a new bikini to wear while they party over spring break, Erin shot her MIT acceptance letter tube into space.  She is a force to be reckoned with and should give us all faith that the future will be in the hands of the truly capable. 

    D. M. Kenyon

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