Today my spring semester starts, and I actually sit in a classroom for the first time in a year. I'm freaking out. I'm usually nervous at the start of a new semester. You could say I'm not a people person? It's more than that really. I get very, very anxious around people. It always feels like they're staring at me, judging me, mean to me. I know it's not the case, but, the thought of it makes it difficult--and it also makes it hard to succeed. Sometimes, I think if I were thin, I wouldn't have a reason to feel this way, that I'd "fit in." I'm not sure that's the case. I just hope this feeling goes away. I don't want to do what I did last time and just take online classes. Meeting people and being social is important and healthy. I can't do that if I'm sitting home, afraid, behind my computer.

I know how you feel, i am also in college and i am always afraid to say anything and participate because i feel like there looking at me...I cant offer any suggestions but i do know how you feel, your not the only one!

I was always the same way.. starting from Jr. high all the way into college. I would be soooo nervous and I have a nervous stomach, sorry if its TMI but I would spend some time in the bathroom before I had to leave the house.

It was the fact that I wouldn't know anybody, or my teachers and have to talk in front of them. I hated it!

But guess what! I ended up being a teacher! Haha. I still have trouble speaking in front of peers and people my age.. but talking in front of a class of students is no big deal.

Good luck with your new semester!

I'm the same way! I know most of the people in my major, and it's a very competitive major for applying to grad school...so no matter what I always feel that everyone is staring at me and judging me. If I heard people whispering, I automatically think it's about me, but that's never the case.

It's very nerve wracking in the beginning of the semester, but you'll meet people and find your class buddies!

Good luck! Just try and remember that almost everyone is probably thinking the same thing you are only about themselves!

Thanks everyone for the encouragement!! It was actually a bad day, but not because of my classes. I had a flat tire of all things, so I was too busy worrying about that all day to even care about people!

Lol, don't worry, I'm pretty comfortable with almost everything TMI. Actually, I have the same problem with my stomach. It's awful. Whenever I got stressed, I'd miss classes and work because I'd spend too much time in the bathroom >.>

Think of it this way: if you were thin, you would still be tall, and people would call you "lanky." If you were shorter, they would scoff that you're nothing special. And if you had the face of a celebrity, they would hate you for having "better genes."

Basically, no matter what a person looks like, there will always be someone who finds something wrong with it. So there's no point in worrying about it. I used to be very shy, but that was before I figured out that everyone was too preoccupied with themselves to give a tinker's dam about me. And if no one's paying attention, then you're free to do whatever you like.