After a group of Harvard students threatened Sidis physically, his parents secured him a job at the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art (now Rice University) in Houston, Texas, as a mathematics teaching assistant.
Pärast seda, kui rühm Harvardi üliõpilasi oli Sidist füüsiliselt ähvardanud, leidsid vanemad talle tööd matemaatika abiõpetajana ülikoolis nimega William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art (nüüd Rice'i ülikool) Houstonis Texases.