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.

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

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

Tree growing

Welcome Sufferers of Stage Fright

Agoraphobic Explorer

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

The Job Interview

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

'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. . .'

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

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

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

"Did we switch everything off before we left?"

"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."

You've been in there for quite a while, little buddy. Everything all right? Go away, Randy! Randy's rule #896: A confident person doesn't get tinkle-shy just because there's a long line waiting for him or her to finish. Still here. Go away!!!

Idlewild.

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

'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."