I’m 4th year illustration student.
Absolutely hate university, I am struggling so hard to carry on. Only a few months left but I’m so depressed it’s ruining my life. Makes me a horrible person to be around because anytime anyone brings it up I snap at them when I don’t mean to. I try to sit down and do the work but my head physically hurts from stress, I can’t concentrate and I feel hopeless. It seems easy to draw for your degree but when they want 100+ drawings it’s so draining, especially when you aren’t passionate about it - forcing out creativity is causing my burnout to be even worse. Completed my dissertation but handed it in late so it will be capped at 40% so what’s the point anymore. I love my job, I’d rather just work and move on with my life at this point. I have a foundation degree and have enough credits from previous years to get a certificate of higher education, so I have something to show for myself at least. Please I feel at this point I’m not even doing it for myself, I’m doing it to please my family even though I have no motivation. And it’s proven that you don’t need a degree to be an illustrator/artist, just a good portfolio and skills which I do have already without the degree. Please someone help me because I can’t do this anymore, I feel like I’m torturing myself for the sake of a piece of paper