<p>Last year a CC'er put a webcam in his mailbox so he could check at school for his envelope. Here's a link to the thread on the old forum on the day people started finding out they got in.</p>
<p>funny thing was that same guy with the webcam got a mention in Amrys' blog. I guess she read his file and was impressed. (He had a comic site)</p>
<p>this post was kinda funny when i first read it...
if you are worried, call them, they ll tell u if they know.</p>
<p>The question is what if it's a small letter from MIT?
That would be a very cruel joke, putting acceptance letters in small envelopes. Some test of fortitude...</p>
<p>if i got a small letter, i would cry and through it away</p>
<p>So would I. Or ask someone considerably braver/less invested to open it and pitch it if it was "reject", and tell me if it were "defer". Any MIT people who might possibly be watching, please don't do this. It isn't funny.</p>
<p>The next great MIT hack: pilfering the EA applicant list and sending rejection letters to all 2,822 applicants.</p>
<p>Substitute "Jack Florey" for "Marilee Jones" at the bottom in the signature area.</p>
<p>That kinda violates the "first of all, do no harm" rule...'Especially because I wouldn't necessarily look at the signature. But saying that they lost the application information, a la the technical glitch, would be okay, I think...</p>
<p>Well, you could put a small "Just kidding" disclaimer at the bottom. :)</p>
<p>My EC told me about a hack he and his friends did in the sixties where they hijacked a steamroller from an unguarded construction site and drove it along the steets of Cambridge to the president of harvard's front lawn. Apparantly the headline in the paper the next day was, "Prez's Peonies Pummelled" or something of that nature.</p>