Here's what happened when I wrote a letter to President Obama

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Last year, I got a signed response to an email I sent in support of our president. It came out of the blue, but in a special attention-grabbing oversized envelope! We have it framed in glass for the skeptics - we can take it down and show the signature ink bleeding through the back of the letter! My family - my children - cherish this from President Obama, and will never forget him!

I saw this article today!

Original source: Jopwell, by Tiffany Davis Business Insider

Tiffany Davis was/is an aerospace engineering student at Georgia Tech.

I type “How to reach President Obama” into Google and am automatically redirected to whitehouse.gov.

Yes, it’s 3 a.m. and I still have homework to do. Somehow, this feels more urgent (or at least more conquerable). I begin frantically typing directly into the text field of the “write President Obama” form, too consumed with my rant to actually open Microsoft Word and bother with spelling and formatting.

“You’ll probably never read this…” I begin.

I was wrong. Several months later, I received a call from an unknown number during class. Afraid it was an emergency, I stepped out to take the call.

“Hello. I’m calling from The White House. We’ve chosen your letter for President Obama to read today. Are you okay with that?”

My response? “Oh my God. Please spell-check it!”

The President, I learned, receives approximately 22,000 letters a day and reads around eight. Somehow, one of them was mine.

About a month later, though, I received another call from The White House asking if I’d like to come hear the President speak in my area. Sure. A few days later, word spread that President Obama was coming to Georgia Tech to speak about college affordability. Interesting. The day before his arrival, I was in the middle of a rocket propulsion class when I got another White House call.

Read the amazing story at: http://thewell.jopwell.com/posts/what-happened-when-i-wrote-a-letter-to-president-obama-rocket-science-boeing-tiffany-davis-georgia-tech/