Published 15:35 IST, June 14th 2021

Elon Musk responds to his University of Pennsylvania homework; here's what he said

Off-white pages depicted Elon Musk’s Uni of Pennsylvania homework that carried five on five score and his name written on the top left on the page.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday responded to “physics homework” from his University of Pennsylvania days, which was originally with his ‘physics professor from Penn,’ head of Fermilab, Caltech/CERN. Shared on Twitter by a user named Pranay Pathole, off-white ps depicted Musk’s college days homework that carried five on five score and his name written on top left on p. As Pathole provided a glimpse into Tesla CEO’s college work, Musk perched underneath post saying that he was driving  moment of inertia from first principles. X CEO had earlier called physics problem “very basic stuff.”

Earlier, Musk had given out se papers on his official Twitter handle calling work ‘too embarrassing’ and initially declining to share it. Although when a user insisted, tech billionaire shared his old tes. "Just learned that my physics prof from Penn is head of Fermilab and still has some of my old homework," Musk said in a post on Twitter. This came ahead of a Satellite Conference and Exhibition scheduled for March 9, 2020, in Washington, DC wherein Musk answered a range of questions regarding X’s new projects. 

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When asked by a user if Musk took astromy at University of Pennsylvania, he replied, “I super loved astromy,” adding that he enrolled at Queen's University in Canada and astromy was one of his favourite classes re. Musk revealed that quantum mechanics was hardest subject for him.  "Senior year quantum mechanics at Penn was hardest class I ever took. That stuff will mess with your mind," Musk wrote in reply to conversation about his college days. 

While first p of homework fetched Elon Musk 5/5, second p hilariously states “Hey, it works!” Users were quick to point that Musk in fact had “terrible handwriting as all rich people do”. Tesla's boss also shared a separate p where he got a 1 out 1 score. He wrote, “Sorry sir I think I have momentinertiaphobia.” 

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Tesla CEO dropped out of Stanford University

Musk attended Queen's University in 1989 at of 17, and in 1992, he moved to US to study business and physics at University of Pennsylvania where he got an undergraduate ecomics degree. Interestingly, X CEO also enrolled at Stanford University in California to study a Ph.D. in energy physics, but in just about two days, he dropped out of college and launched his first company, Zip2 Corporation in 1995. 

15:35 IST, June 14th 2021