Anxious Academic Gifts

"Is that Baldo's 'scary Halloween' face?"

Postgraduates A group of posts on their way to class.

"This statement from your headmaster says that you can easily get a good degree...your bank manager says you can't."

Fear of news.

An Archeologic Dig

'But do you realize what this report cart will do to my self-esteem?'

'It's your babysitter, where do you keep your fire extinguisher?'

'I checked my symptoms on the internet and I think I might be dead!'

"And, of course, if I were to get the job and start feeling comfortable here I'd no longer need the security blanket."

'Your performance review is next Tuesday. You're allowed to bring a guitar and up to three backup singers.'

'I'm sorry, but I haven't understood a word you've babbled since I turned left on red.'

Before her first dressage competition, Kate suffered from Pre-Traumatic Stress.

'Please give me the strength to ask for a raise without my voice breaking into an annoying falsetto and my brow all sweaty.'

"Oh no, I never replied to Theresa's email! And tomorrow I must call Steve.... What does Yara think of me?"

Tree growing

Agoraphobic Explorer

"Is it okay that I said yes to that costume party?"

"My life is a powerful blast tocenter field easily snagged on the warning track."

The Job Interview

'You're in extreme danger because you eat too much. . .'

I hate group projects

"I'd like to extend a special welcome to those of you who are joining us for the first time, as part of a nightmare you're having."

'She will not call on me, she will not call on me, she. . .'

"Feel free to imagine you might have any of the conditions you read about in the magazines."

'If my grades don't improve, I don't know what'll happen. Maybe they'll offer me a buyout.'

"Just get out there and be yourself – or better yet, someone like me."

Idlewild.

"Call me a dreamer, but I see a world in which I give speeches without pants and find myself in the final exam of courses I never signed up for."

Person is hiding behind book entitled 'Coping with shyness'.

"Did we switch everything off before we left?"

'What if I want to stop? Where's the pause button?'

"At least you're not afraid to fail."

"Anyway, all you'll need to worry about soon is which direction the wind is blowing."

'Apparently it was only his fear of heights that stopped him from jumping.'