Day 65: What to do

It's towards the end of the semester and I am completely baffled why no one seems to want my time or attention until I need to study for finals. So I am being pulled in multiple directions and it is a struggle to get everything done. Reading. Briefing (which gets decidedly more brief as time goes on). Organizing notes. Then a not so gentle reminder that we use the Socratic method "encourages me" to tighten up. In Torts a classmate was called on to answer questions about the case, which it seemed he had read. Sadly it was not absorbed with the depth of understanding the Professor expected. Thus it began. The pointed questions. The unrelenting eye contact. The protracted pauses. The long fillers. The stumbling. The audible embarrassment. The uncomfortable shifting - by him and me. It is painful to hear it as it happens and know that it could be any of us on any given day to have to utter the dreaded words " I don't know" or "I am unprepared". Thing is I never know the etiquette. Should I offer the answer if by chance I know it to put him out of his misery? Or does that wreak of arrogance and make me look like a douchebag (to speak delicately)? So I sat idly by until the Professor moved on and was suddenly less embarrassed for him and more so of myself.