by wibeke » Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:20 pm
I had a solid two days of being ridiculously excited for school. It's been my dream to go to this college for years now, at least one of my room mates is totally awesome (and the other one will show up eventually), I bought a bunch of neat stuff for my dorm, and the whole school just seems fantastic. September really can't come fast enough.
But at the same time I'm absolutely terrified and nervous that this isn't going to work out. I love to do art, I can't think of any other school I'd want to be at or any other carreer I'd want to have, but I'm afraid I won't be good enough. Everyone's art is so fantastic and while I actually do like my art quite a bit, I'm so afraid that it won;t measure up to what everyone else expects and it looking for. Everyone else is so creative and thinks of these amazing things, but my art is so... generic.
And the people are fascinating, but they seem like the type of people that I'll never be able to make friends with. They're all so exciting and creative and interesting and I'm just boring as hell.
And now I'm trapped under a pile of self-doubt all over my first art assignment.
All I have to do is draw a small, 8 x 8 picture about what the word PLACE means to me. But I can't do it. I have an idea in mind, but it's just not good enough. Nothing I can think of is good enough and it's my very first assignment. what if this becomes a pattern. Maybe I'm not fit for art school. I had a nice enough portfolio to get into all the schools I applied to, but I'm scared that that's all I have. I made a few good pieces but I don't have the brain or the creativity to get any further.
I've struggled in school for years and I gave up in my classes because I "wasn't good enough" for math or science or english or history. I thought I was at least good at art, but I'm not even sure I have that.
I'm sure this will all work out and I'm probably just freaking out over nothing. I really hope that's true. I just don't want to fail. I need this to work out for me, I really don't have any other options at this point.
Ugh.
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