24M, graduating this Saturday with a BA in Psychology. Most of the time it wasn’t a problem unless your professor had you speak during the first week of class, but otherwise it was mostly a lot of communication via emails between classmates and professors. I can count on one hand the number of times I had to do a speech or presentation for a class and three of those were for a speech class for presenting. When you do have to present you just take a couple of deep breaths and read what you need to say slowly, taking your time to be sure you’ve gotten everything out that you needed to say. My speech therapist had given me a set list of directions to follow for when I do stutter, one of which being to take a breath between each sentence until you ran out of breath, then do it again. Another thing is to try a sort of sing-song voice as people like us don’t often stutter when we sing. I never stutter when I sing so doing a bit of that actually helps at times too. Many of us start out worrying that our stutter is going to effect us a lot in higher academics and, eventually, our lives afterwards. Once you’re able to start relaxing and just not worry about your speech disorder things get a little easier, it’ll still be there but if you don’t focus on it, it won’t stress you out and make it worse. Here’s to you though! Going back to college is always hard, but it’s the first step! Go for it and kick some academic butt!