Yeah, so...

Apparently I am not a complete moron among these PhDs, after all.

Not only did I talk plenty today (although, sadly, we were discussing the professor's book and so he was out of the room almost the whole time) but someone else, a PhD herself, got the "uh... yeah... we kind of covered that...." and I got "that's a really good point" from a classmate. And then I got our first mini-paper back and got "good idea" "good observation" AND "good point." Hmmm. Good point, indeed.