After that, the student who had been gone showed up every single day. It was as if that first day had never happened. In fact, he was the only student with only one absence; most of the other students skipped on a regular basis.
Towards the end of the semester, the professor realized that the student who had been missing on the first day of class now had the best grade of all his students. This did not surprise him, however; the student did his work diligently and never missed an opportunity to learn.
On the last day of class, that very student strolled into the professor's office.
"Professor, I was wondering when you were going to take up our homework problems."
"Excuse me? I haven't given out homework for the past few weeks."
"I meant the problems you gave us the first day of class. I copied them from another student's notes."
"Oh really? You didn't manage to solve any, did you?" asked the professor. At this point, he was intrigued. The problems he had written down on the first day of class were not homework, but were the eight unsolved problems in mathematics at the time.
"Yes," replied the student, "I managed to solve the first six, but those last two were monsters!"
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