I am currently enrolled in my second semester of college and I must say among many reasons to hate covid one of the reasons to me is the new zoom culture at school. Before pretty much all of the online classes I could take were all done without meetings and just getting your work done before the deadline. Now they ALL want to be the same as before, but have weekly zoom calls. 

This is my first semester back to school since before covid so I've not had to really do any zoom before and I wanted to redo a placement exam so I could place into a higher math class... the exam requires open mic and video feed. I joined without both and I just got a lot of anxiety about turning everything on. I'm 26 and in the call seemed to be nothing but 17/18 year olds including who I thought was a student was actually the exam proctor. Idk why but I just got really anxious and the proctor kept asking me if I could hear them and could I unmute/ turn on my cam... I fucking turned my computer off instead of just doing wanted I wanted to do which was take this exam before the semester.. 

I don't know what it is but being on cam to me I get really nervous and anxious. I've done the exam before in person and it's completely fine because you sit at your own computer away from everyone else.  I really don't get it because I've worked retail and talking to strangers was not a problem to me, but zooming is.