You make eye contact with the professor and their gaze pulls word vomit from your chest.
Before you know it you are admitting defeat and saying to everyone that you did not read the intro articles.
All eyes stick to you and the shame burns from your brain to your heart incinerating the bones from under your skin.
Without thought, you commend the thoughts of your peers and quote the note someone made earlier.
While acknowledging you did not read the article you mention how this colleague mentioned something that can relate to a theme in another class,
creating a thread between the two subjects.