Chris sez, "My name is Chris Peterson. I run web communications for MIT Admissions and have been a loyal BB reader for years.

For the last several years we have been sending our admitted students their acceptance letters in cardboard tubes. First because we sent a poster, but now it's its own thing.

2012 is the anniversary of an old MIT balloon hack, so we put a letter in all of the Early Action admit tubes telling them we wanted them to hack the tubes somehow, and set up http://hackthetubes.mitadmissions.org to collect responses.

Lots of them are great, but this one, from Erin King (MIT '16) in Georgia, is the best."

Update: Erin sez, "I goofed on my Erin king 'MIT admit letter in space' submission. She is 17. I plain forgot what year it was – been too buried in applications!!"

16 year old girl from Georgia launches her MIT acceptance letter into near space

(Thanks, Chris!)