Panic, take 2

I described how I felt panicked the other day in genetics class. Well ever since that incident I felt much more confident that I did not have to worry about being called on until i got an email. In fact this Monday I got an email that I would be presenting on Friday. So I had nothing to worry about. Today I was sitting in class when the teacher once again called the next person to present...of course it was "Benjamin" Even though I KNEW it could not be me and even though I KNEW there was another (yes a third) Benjamin in the class I still panicked! It was kind of interesting though compared to the first time. The intensity was pretty high, perhaps not quite so high as the first time, but the duration and the after effects were much less drastic. It was kind of like the immune system response to a second infection of the same virus. My body was able to recover much faster from this bout of panic. I did not experience any of the dramatic physiological changes such as insane heart beat. It was kind of funny in retrospect.

Even though it was not that bad and I can laugh about it later, I still would consider it an unpleasant scenario. The emotion was fear and the intensity was mild but not a very long duration. Finally I would say the cause was once again the professor.