Even worse, the reporter says "She took her admissions letter and then rocketed it into space." As if there were a rocket involved. I mean, I like high-altitud

Even worse, the reporter says "She took her admissions letter and then rocketed it into space." As if there were a rocket involved. I mean, I like high-altitude ballooning, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that this sentence primed me to expect something an order of magnitude cooler, someone strapping 250 grams of aluminum-based rocket fuel to their acceptance letter and watching it blast off.