I hate public speaking. I hate it when people make eye contact with me randomly in public and it is much worse in front of a class, even if I personally know everyone in the room.That was the only class I can honestly say I didn't like.

What I have found, and you might find it obvious or simplistic is to just push through it. What you might not like to hear, is that you might never get comfortable with it and that's okay too. The instructor will be used to having uncomfortable students.

As a junior and senior, every single class in my major required at least one presentation and every class as a grad student did the same. In fact, some of the classes had a presentation or four as the only assignment. I never got used it, but I could get good grades on them, as long as I had notes with me and was sufficiently prepared.

I taught classes as a grad student, I had as many as 70 students per class and I never got used to it. I was just as nervous my last lecture as I was my first. It didn't matter, I pushed through it and was still able to get near perfect student evaluations.

Be well prepared, push down the nervousness and you will get through it even if you hate every second of it. Treat it as a skill you will need to get through college, because you most likely will. It is like writing, one of my English freshman classes required a 10 page research paper, that was painful. By senior year, something like that was trivial. Still hated writing, but I could bang one out in a few hours instead of the two months my first one took.

Who knows? You might even start to like it. I really miss teaching, even though the thought of it makes me nervous.