Drawing 6 people within a panel around a table is sooo difficult! Takes so much time and yet still end up looking so disproportionate. Arrgh... Anyway, yes, this is yet another strip highlighting Carl's neurotism and lack of self-confidence. Something that perhaps would have been less so apparent if he knows his stuff well. But given that the only studying that he will ever do is last minute mugging just before the exams, expect many more such hair-raising-heart palpitating-nerve-racking situations.