Great topic idea!
I am already in uni on an art course. I entered through clearance on a splur of the moment because I could not decide what I wanted to do between science and arts (and other spontaneous ideas like computer science or mechanical engineering).
Also, I am not qualified for a maintenance loan, so I could not afford going to an university in some other area of the UK, so I had to chose between 2 alright universities that could do science and other subjects and a specialist university, and I thought the specialist university was the better choice, I felt like I really wanted to decide on a subject to do already because it was taking me so long to make that choice and I didn't want to waste 3 years while I was waiting for a residential status...so I just went for it.
It is only now that I am questioning my decision, I am thinking that maybe I should have waited for another year so I could have 3 years of staying in the UK, (some say that you need 5 years, but others say that you need 3 years to receive a maintenance loan), I could have got my driving liscence without too much stress, applied for my GCSE exams (I came here and started with A-levels) so I wouldn't have so many problems with my CV, apply for a language proficency test.....or maybe I could have done a foundation year for arts to try out modules and make sure arts is actually the pathway I want to follow.
I hear that some other art unis are better organised and as I am a perfectionist I can't help feeling that I could have registered into a better uni, than the one I have close by, which doesn't require me to move somewhere else and I feel like I am not really doing what I would like to do in this course, what I came to this course for...maybe it is because it is only my first year and the course is not so specialised yet, so I am wondering: is the fact that my expectations have not been met (yet) a problem/ or is it normal.
The worst of all is that I feel like what I am doing is not important, relevant, necessary to today's world: I like drawing and communicating ideas that have double meaning and I like to make others reflect upon a message that is not necessarily what it appears, hence why I chose this course, which seems relevant to this aim. It is only that I feel like it doesn't help people like science would do....maybe it is also because my family wanted me to go for science, especially my mum (only-parent), she encouraged me to pursue it, not really encouraging me into doing art though, so unless I showed her my work, she wouldn't really be particularly interested in it, I don't really have anyone to talk about it. Also, I kind of adopted a minimalist/ practical view for my life, say furniture, I don't want anything that I don't need like paintings or books (only e-books) because they would be an inconvenience, I would have to clean them all the time and use them rarely, so unless I use sth everyday, I wouldn't want to have it....hence why I am thinking: the art I do is not necessary, neither me nor anyone else has any daily/ practical use to it.
So...umm...any advice? what do you think I should do?