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Second semester of my freshman year I wanted to take a math class and the one I really needed was not offered, so my math advisor suggested that I take Differential Equations. The class at Spelman was full, so I took a class at Morehouse (AUC students are allowed to cross register). The class was full of sophomore and junior math majors, some who were taking it for the second time. That should have told me something. Dr. Gore, the professor, was known for being tough. On April Fool's day some of the folks in the class decided to play a joke on him, so they placed a fake Coke can (looks unopened, but it is empty) on his desk that said "Have a Coke and a Smile Dr. Gore, from your DE class". Dr. Gore walked in, saw the note and the Coke and went on and on about how nice it was, what a wonderful class we were, etc. When he picked up the coke and realized it was empty he said "ohhhh, so you want to play a joke on me, huh. Well, joke's on you! POP QUIZ!" Everyone was dying laughing until he said Pop Quiz. You could have heard a pin drop. He proceeded to put the most complex DE equation on the board and said "Solve it". He let us sweat it out for about 30 minutes then told us to pass our papers in. After he got them all he said "April Fools!" and threw them away! Boy we were all sweating bullets that day!!
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