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[oaklandmom]

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Thanks to Ben who posted a link to this on the Caltech forum.</p>

[citygirlsmom]

<p>hmmmm, I wonder what other notables we could do this for</p>

[jmmom]

<p>Which General was it whose mother rented an apartment within spitting distance of West Point?</p>

[midmo]

<p>^^^I think it was Douglas MacArthur</p>

[jmmom]

<p>^^^Sounds about right.</p>

[Karen_Colleges]

<p>Is this letter for real? Did Albert get a job there? </p>

<p>Do I need to go google Al and see if he was at the University of Leipzig in 1901?</p>

<p>Inquiring minds want to know…</p>

[mommusic]

<p>From the SparkNotes web site on Einstein:</p>

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Einstein graduated from his teachers’ training program at the Zurich Polytechnic in August 1900, along with three other students. Two of these students immediately obtained positions as assistants at the Polytechnic, but Einstein was not so fortunate; Professor Weber, a German, was not particularly fond of the student who had renounced his citizenship and relied on his friend’s lecture notes to pass all his classes. Unable to find employment immediately after graduation, Einstein spent the summer of 1900 living with his family in Milan.

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<p>It goes on to say he had a number of temporary teaching assistantships but doesn’t say where. Apparently his big problem was dissatisfaction with Newtonian Physics. </p>

<p>Most of us only have small problems, relatively speaking. ;)</p>