General Equilibrium

Just got back home not too long ago from an Economics lecture conducted specially on two topics in our syllabus. These are topics which our lecturer would not be covering so this series of lectures is obviously very important. So the lecture I just came back from was the first part which was on General Equilibrium.
Well actually, this is the second time I am attending this lecture.
So why did I go for this lecture a second time when I just attended a similar one given by the same lecturer? Here's why.
After attending yesterday's lecture, which was the original slot allocated to me, I found that I didn't understand most of the lecture due to having not read through the lecture notes and study guide before the class. Furthermore, the lecture group yesterday was very unresponsive to the lecturer's questions and he thus had to go at a very slow pace trying to get people's responses and figuring out if we were keeping up with his lecture. Most importantly, I forgot to complete the assignment that he had emailed to us which resulted in me being unable to follow his lesson when he was going through the assignment. I just had too much on my mind and the assignment slipped my mind. Anyways, the lecture proceeded at a really slow pace yesterday and he was thus unable to finish. I thus decided to attend the session today, going better prepared so as to redeem myself. I did feel quite bad for not completing his assignment.
I did manage to prepare for today's session by reading through the subject guide using whatever notes I managed to take yesterday. I also tried a few of the assignment questions that he gave us. Indeed, I did feel better prepared for the lecture today, even if it was just a little bit more prepared than yesterday.
The lecturer started off the session with a question on a graph he drew, similar to yesterday. Once again his question was met with a cold silence. Sensing a repeat of yesterday's snail speed lecture, I thus shouted out the answer. By that time, he had already gone on to trying to persuade the room to just shout out any answer that they had in mind and that it didn't matter if it was the wrong answer. As it turned out, my answer was right to which he replied that I spoiled the fun by giving the right answer as he was now asking for a wrong answer. Well, that got some laughter which sure helped lighten the mood a little. After some further clarification though, he found my answer to be wrong actually and thus I found out I had not fully understood the model he drew.
At the same time that he pointed out my error, there was a murmur of disapproval around the room, an obvious sign that most thought that my answer was indeed correct. Well, so I helped bring to attention a general conceptual error. This was not too bad.
Well, since it has now been established that my answer was indeed actually wrong, a smile appeared on the lecturer's face which brought about more laughter. This laughter was so much better than the awkward laughter yesterday when less than 20% of the room indicated that they had completed his assignment.
The lecture went on with the lecturer clearing up the conceptual error we had and then proceeding with people being more responsive to his questions and with some even asking him questions. I seems as though I had helped to break the ice the in the room for everyone... hahaha!
All in all, the lecturer completed more than he did yesterday and I sure did understand a lot more than I did yesterday. Still, he was not able to complete what he had intended for this session and will thus continue in our next session. Now I just need to run through the notes again and hopefully I would be able to clear up my understanding by reading the subject guide after.

On a separate note, I had quite an intense Sociology lesson today. Intense for me, but not intense for the whole class generally. It was a lesson I had not had in a long while. Well, it was intense because I had to fight to answer the lecturer's questions. Competition was really great today for some reason. Every time I opened my mouth to shout out an answer, I would hear a similar answer coming from someone else. Still, I think the lecturer kind of noticed me this time round. So it sure was a great Sociology lecture today haha!