The transition from high school to college is an arduous process; students are torn from the structured environment of high school and thrown into the chaos of college life where they are expected to be completely independent. It is no wonder, then, that some students collapse under the heavy weight of change and succumb to stress. First defined as “the body's nonspecific response to any request for change” in 1936 by Hans Selye, stress was considered synonymous with discomfort. (The American Institute of Stress, n.d.) This association has led to the generalization of stress as a negative emotion, ignoring the positive effects that stress can generate. Anxiety and stress go hand in hand; While anxiety can be caused by environmental and medical factors, it is most commonly triggered by stress. Considered an umbrella term for several disorders that can cause nervousness, apprehension, and fear, anxiety can be further subcategorized into academic-related anxieties (Crosta, 2013). This essay will cover library anxiety, some of these anxieties would be library anxiety, writing anxiety, math anxiety, and exam anxiety. Library anxiety was first discovered by Mellon (1986) in a qualitative study of college students' feelings about library use. . College requires research to be performed to complete a project or paper, and students fresh out of high school are often out of their depth because they have never been to a college library. These students were found to describe their initial reaction to library research in terms of fear, and this presents itself in three ways: students believe their research skills are inadequate compared to other students, they perceive their feelings of inadequacy as embarrassing. .... middle of paper ......7.Daly, J. (1978). Writing apprehension and competence. Journal of Educational Research, 72(1), 10-14. Buckley, P. A., & Ribordy S. C. (1982). Mathematics anxiety and the effects of evaluative instruction on mathematics performance. (NOTE THIS REF - http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1263&context=honors) Jackson, C. D., & Leffingwell, R. J. (1999). The role of teachers in creating mathematics anxiety in students from kindergarten to college. Mathematics Teacher, 92(7), 583-587.Zeidner, M. (1998). Test anxiety: the state of the art. New York: Plenum Press. University of Iowa (n.d.). Experience anxiety. Retrieved from http://www.uiowa.edu/web/advisingcenter/test_anxiety.htmCherry, K. (n.d.) Symptoms of Test Anxiety: Common Symptoms of Test Anxiety. Retrieved from http://psychology.about.com/od/mentalhealth/a/test-anxiety-symptoms.htm