Time for change!

[marshlander]

Sorry you are having a tough time at the moment. It sounds as though you've stepped off the path for a bit of a wander. Part of the way into your second year is probably an awkward time to change your course. It would probably have been easier at this time last year. I know a few people, including me, who chose to study something more general than a pure art form and realised afterward that we came out of our courses less than satisfied. I feel now that I would have been better off trying to become the best I could be as a practitioner in music, with the best training I could get and then look at a more vocational course afterward to lead me into the kind of work I wanted to do. I know dance and drama students who have also come to the same conclusions after their courses. :frown:

If you were good enough to be accepted as a fine art student (and you can find your mojo) I would recommend you see it through. Use the time to be innovative and experience what the art world has to offer before you get bogged down in the requirements of vocational study. Once you are in vocational territory, your art will definitely take a back seat. There will come a time in the future that you are more likely to regret pursuing your art than you are putting off becoming an art therapist.

This may seem like an age to you at the moment, but your time at university is SO short. I hope you can find it in you to become the best you can be.

Good luck