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Einstein at the Z\"urich Polytechnic: he skipped classes, did not attend allthe lectures of his Professors, and before going to the examinations he studiedinstead from the notebooks of his good friend from class, Marcel Grossmann.Einstein the free-thinker did not respect the two major professors in thePolytechnic - Heinrich Friedrich Weber and Jean Pernet - who eventually turnedon him. He felt that his beloved science had lost its appeal because Weber'slectures did not include Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. Einstein seldomshowed up to Pernet's practical physics course. By his fourth-rightness and hisdistrust of authority he had alienated his professors, especially Weber, whoapparently conceived a particular dislike of him. At the Z\"urich Polytechnic,Einstein could not easily bring himself to study what did not interest him.Most of his time he spent on his own studying Maxwell's theory and learning atfirst hand the works of great pioneers in science and philosophy: Boltzmann,Helmholtz, Kirchhoff, Hertz, Mach. Eventually, Einstein finished first in hisclass in the intermediate exams; second after him was his note taker Grossmann.Do not ever try Einstein's recipe for studying in college, because afterobtaining the diploma, when he sought university positions, he was rebuffed.Finally rescue came from Grossmann, and thanks to him and his father Einsteinobtained a post in the Patent Office. There are strong reasons to believe thatit was Einstein's rare mastery of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory thatultimately prompted the Director of the Patent Office to offer him a job.

Albert Einstein at the Z\"urich Polytechnic: a rare mastery of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory