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Re: Fighting urban myths, one at a time

Posted By: Sam, on host 66.33.209.193
Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 15:28:29
In Reply To: Fighting urban myths, one at a time posted by Balanthalus on Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 10:12:59:

> > Einstein flunked out of school.
>
> Myth. Einstein never flunked out of any school or failed a math course. His grades weren't always A's (he did get one or two F's in his career), and he did fail an entrance exam to the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, but he didn't have above-average diffuculty with his education.

I must have been thinking of Edgar Allan Poe. It's easy to get the two confused.

S "sigh" am

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Message:	> > > Einstein flunked out of school. > > > > Myth. Einstein never flunked out of any school or failed a math course. His grades weren't always A's (he did get one or two F's in his career), and he did fail an entrance exam to the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, but he didn't have above-average diffuculty with his education. > > I must have been thinking of Edgar Allan Poe. It's easy to get the two confused. > > S "sigh" am
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