hat degree would allow him to enter FIT without taking the examination. He decided to go with that option, and enrolled in the nearby school in Aurau. During the year he spent studying at Aurau, he decided that he would renounce his German citizenship. He completed the necessary paperwork, and became a "stateless person" until he was 21, at which point he officially became a Swiss citizen. In the summer of 1896, Einstein received his degree from secondary school and entered FIT. He started the four-year course to become a physics teacher in the fall of that year. But he soon grew bored, and he spent a great deal of time studying on his own, learning about the newest discoveries, and questioning the foundations of classical physics. It was around this time that he began questioning the scientific principles of Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. Their theories on space and time and light didn't seem to go together, in fact they seemed to contradict each other at times! For example, Newton explained how light
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