>be me
>have anxiety disorder
>first day of biology class
>“break into groups”
>fuck my stupid baka life
>he gives us a paper with a list of terms on it
>“everyone pick one to research and we’ll talk abt it thursday (casual) (dont get scared)”
>gets scared
>see one that looks cool
>someone else takes it
>see another that looks cool
>someone else takes it
>most of the rest of the terms are latin scientific names
>dont know what they mean
>choose least threatening one (it looked familiar)
>professor asks which we chose
>i say mine
>he asks if i know what it means
>immediately i think its something bad bc why else would he ask if i knew what it was (he had also asked other ppl who chose scientific terms. btw)
>“i think so?”
>class over
>leave
>making up worst possible scenarios in my head
>what if its something embarrassing. like what if its an std. and i have to talk abt it in front of the class. what if its like. pseudoscience that my professor believes in for some reason. and ive trapped myself into sharing pseudoscience even though im ideologically opposed to it. what if
>finish walking to library
>sit down
>pull out phone
>hands shaking
>google mus musculus
>House mice.Let us discuss house mice and how cool they are
Love those little guys. Will never forget that house mouse I found crawling up the outside wall of my middle school. We were 3 floors up and there were no other open windows bellow