As a college student I'm not really afraid of approaching women in my lectures and in the hallways, cafeteria, library to ask them to study together, have a chat or just be friends even. At least I'm much less afraid of it than I used to be and I'm overcoming it more and more as far as I see.
Now I'm really only afraid to try the same at the nightclub or parties, like ones at my school or when student associations rent a club and everyone there are students of my school, where the whole point of getting the name and contacts is to convert to a first date. I'm way more afraid of getting laughed at and the gossip as well as making the game-ending mistakes making me look stupid than I'm afraid