His father was certainly a role model for him, but as Sebastian was often away from home on research expeditions, neighbors who were scientists, engineers, and professionals were also role models for young John. He graduated from The McKinley Technical High School of Washington, D.C. in 1925. On the strength of his "academic achievements he received the Engineering Scholarship of the State of Maryland" (upenn), and in the fall of 1925 he enrolled at John Hopkins University. .
Mauchly entered Johns Hopkins as an undergraduate in the Electrical Engineering program fulfilling the requirements of his scholarship. By the end of his sophomore year, however, he was bored with the engineering courses, so "he switched majors and enrolled in the physics Ph.D. program" (Keiger). Mauchly received his doctorate in 1932, but found that the tides of scientific interest had turned. His field of study, molecular spectroscopy, belonged to a previous wave of scientific interest. He had a difficult time finding a position as most of the "openings in the nations leading physics departments" (maxmon) were for the current research interest, nuclear physics. He approached several research institutions including "the Carnegie Institute, where his father had worked before he passed away in 1928" (upenn), but was turned down by all of them. He eventually accepted a position at the small liberal arts college in Ursinus, Philadelphia where he "was a one-man physics department" (Keiger). As instruments needed to further Mauchly's research along the main lines of physics, were beyond the resources of a small college, he turned to experimenting with digital electronic computing circuitry. Using the education he had in electrical engineering Mauchly built many "circuits using basic elements such as a "flip-flop", which could store the ones and zeros that make up the information stored by all digital computers" (McCartney).
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