I am so depressed right now. I have midterms this week and I feel like I have nothing to present (I have two presentatations for two classes and one wirtten for another). I am an architecture major and currently in my 3rd year. I hate it. I am stuck in a rut. I am not enthusiatic about it anymore (compared to the first two years). I used to sketch and do my work right after class and now I am just procrastinating and worrying about it. And right now, I am working with partners which makes the project harder since we each have our own schedule. We tried compromising but it's not helping a lot. I don't know what to do... I want to transfer or take a year off but at the same time, money i sthe biggest problem. I have so much student loans and I feel like I'm wasting my parents' money if I stop after 3 1/2 years of school. I seriously don't know what to do... I am stuck in a rut. I feel like crying because I am not like this. I always have mental blocks but they go away after a day. Now, it's been like this ever since the semester started.
Should I consider transferring? I kind of want to do interior design because I was deciding on architecture or interior design when choosing my major. I don't know if I made the right choice.
Should I continue and deal with it? Spring break is around the corner and maybe I just need a little vacation.
Thanks
I guess this is the perfect to tell you that time=money. So when your $ decreasing, you think about how you can accumulate $. You're a junior now so you should just deal with it and just think of it as getting a degree. It's a state of mind, and that's something that you can alter chemically (that's all that humans are composed of). I'm not telling you to take antidepressants but you can subsitute your depression with food that you enjoy, your friends, family, and hobbies. You don't even need to use your degree, and who knows maybe you'll enjoy the actual work more than the study. When you pay off your loans and think that you really want to do something else, then go back to school. I work for the alumni center and I've seen people who are in their 40s and 50s going back to school to do what they love. Believe it or not there was a lady who went to school medical school when she was 43. She graduated when she was 47 and started really practicing when she was in her early 50s. She has a private practice now and she enjoys what she does. What interests you now, might not even interest you later. If you switch majors, do you have a good idea of what you might want to do? If you really think that's REALLY what you want, then go for it. So what if you have a loan? A lot of students do, and it's just about paying back once you get out of school.
