At the beginning of this week, I went to my college gym for the first time. This is something I had wanted to do all of last semester, but the fear of not knowing how to use the gym equipment held me back. I was worried I would look like a fool.

So, Monday rolled around and I went to the gym after class. To enter the gym, you have to swipe your ID. Of course when I swiped my ID, the swipe thing didn’t work because I had to fill out a waiver. I knew it wasn’t that big of a deal, but my anxiety levels were already so high and I just wanted to seamlessly enter the gym without attracting any unnecessary attention to myself.