I want to quit -- HELP!

[CreamyLady]

I'm restless and angry and trying to find a really compelling reason to stay in school. Once again, we are stuck with a project that is tailor-made to drive me crazy, and I'm ready to pick up the phone and drop.

Please -- if anyone has a good one, I'm all eyes. I don't want to give up, and it's all too easy for me to do so.

 

[wolfie69]

I think that is what kept me in school was the fact that it would be too easy to quit and I would not take the easy way out...

 

[CW]

Just remember ,,,

This too shall pass,,, don't like that one heh?

Okay, how about look at the bigger picture,,, no huh?

Well you can do anything at all if you set your mind to it,,, maybe you can, I never could.

Well, last choice here,,, Stick with it because I said so,,, now, no more argueing,,, just get to it!!



Come on,,, lets see a smile ( fake is okay )and a go get 'em tiger attitude,,,

 

[Silverlily]

That nagging little voice in the back of your head whispering, "Quitter".

The scowl you see in the mirror that says, "You're better than this".

That feeling in your gut telling you, "Don't let them win."

You didn't let them win before, why start now?

 

[CreamyLady]

I feel better already! Sort of. Maybe its the fact that at least one of the photocopies of the nude Opium layout came out looking all right, and will reproduce in pencil. I hope.

wolfie69: It is very easy to quit -- a phone call -- and I've certainly done it before. However, I'll tough this out. I can do this. I can do this . . . .

CW: Growl. Hiss. Thppppffftt! I'm not actually a tiger, more of a house cat, but JP always gets his way, and maybe I should take lessons.

Thank you.

 

[forgetunome]

Just think how happy you will be when you have completed it and think AW that's over with never to have to do again! Go for the fulfillment and completion. After all life is full of things we want to do & things we have to do whether we like it or not. So, smile and give it your all then you can gladly graduate into the next level or step. You won't regret it!

 

[CreamyLady]

Thank you, Kitten Eyes. This truly is the assignment from hell, but I can do this. I can do this. I can do this . . .

 

[CreamyLady]

Life drawing, forgetunome. With real live models, instead of still lifes with cow skulls.

I can't wait!

 

[Patryn]

Find a "mentor". Doesn't have to be a living person, or a person at all...just someone you admire, or something you wish you could do. I'm not saying you need to idolize someone or something, just see it as a goal of sorts. Like "This is where I want to end up, and these are just the hoops I need to jump through to get there". Not saying that'll make it easy, but it'll give you a sense of purpose. At least that usually works or me.

 

[Cheri]

Cl, you are so smart creative and talented this is going to be great in the end. And think of the pride you'll have from doing something you didn't like but did well anyway!

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso

 

[Ezzy]

Life Drawing or still life...

From my own experience all I can say is that I found it very difficult too, but they only way I found for myself was to do charcoal free flowing drawings; and concentrate on one part at a time, one muscle group or limb and treat it as a still life.
I was I will admit only doing an evening class and there was no pass or fail pressure, but the peer pressure was high.
I got through the course, didn’t quit, I wanted to even though all the fees were paid.

EZ http://smilecwm.tripod.com/cwm2/sleep.gif

 

[RisiaSkye]

If it is something that you want, and you don't finish because you didn't try, you will never know what may have been. And you'll never forgive yourself for closing a door that many have had to force open.

 

[CreamyLady]

Taking a graphite-covered break

Again, thank you all. Encouragement is keeping me going on this thing and it really helps.

Patryn: Right now, I'm following my ceramics instructor's mantra -- do whatever you have to do to get through. Of course, it's never anything fun; in this case, it's reproducing a photocopy of a collage in pencil, exactly.

I've learned three things: I hate glue; graphite is messy; and I need new reading glasses.

Cheri: I will get through this. I can't guarantee it will be my best work -- I'm much better at skulls, in conte or charcoal -- but it will get finished.

Ezzy: Charcoal is fun. It makes a spectacular mess, but the finished picture is generally great. This, alas, is not charcoal.

RisiaSkye: I'll finish.

 

[Boo]

Creamy Lady:

The title of your thread says: "I want to quit so badly." But, really you don't. You just aren't interested in the assignment at hand. Throughout school you'll have many assigments and even whole courses that aren't exactly up your alley so to speak, but, you have to do them. And, this seems strange, but after sweating through them, the projects and/or classes that I ended up completing despite my dislike (possibly fear) of them, ended up giving me more satisfaction in a way than those that in which I was more interested and which I enjoyed more.

You will finish and you will do as well as you can do. And, you'll be rightfully proud of yourself for doing so....as will all of us. Go Creamy Lady Go!

Boo



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[puttout]

I dropped out of college after two years and now have a job that brings me home a very pretty penny I am very convinced in this life it is not what you know but more importantly who you know. It worked for me it doesn't work for everyone.Good luck

 

[Mustang Sally]

CreamyLady, it sounds like you're extremely frustrated at the moment, but fully intend to stick it out. Good for you. You can do it!! It may not be fun, but think how good it will feel when you're finished.

I did quit when I was in my second year of university. It was horrible. I really beat myself up over it, because school had always been something I was good at. But I went to college to try something different the next year and that worked out well. Still I wonder, what if...?

[Edited by Mustang Sally on 10-04-2000 at 08:35 PM]

 

[Earthmuffin]

Creamy Lady,
You are doing it!! *pointing to a long-ago thread* I read with admiration your post once upon an insomniac attack that you were taking Art because it is what YOU want. Even though you may hate the assignment at hand it may turn out to be better than cow skulls or whatever has gone before. I know when you're done you will be able to knock the graphite dust off and smile with pride.

 

[wetneice]

Finishing will allow you more contacts in your chosen field, allow you to utilize your school's career and placement resources, and grant you that all important degree for today's job market.

Hang in there. It is so worth it at the end.

 

[Never]

I'd give my left foot right now if I could go through the project from 'hell'.
Maybe next fall..

 

[Mustang Sally]

Me too, Never. I was put on a waiting list for a program I really wanted to take. I didn't get a spot simply because I didn't apply early enough. ARRRGHHH! Maybe next September. But what the hell do I do with myself for the next year?? I feel so lost without my comfy student title.

 

[Cheyenne]

Try thinking of the assignment from hell as a challenge instead of something that you dislike to do. Then tackle it and finish it, doing your best. Be happy with whatever your "best" is on the assignment. Once it is done, reward yourself with something that you LOVE to do but haven't had the time, or maybe the money, to do recently. And enjoy it, because your hard work earned it.

 

[Never]

I was accepted to college. Tom just decided he didn't want to pay for it this year and that I'd be better off working a full time and part time job.

Sure, he just bought three houses and a condominium, but can he spend the dough to send me to a community college? Nope. In addition, as I'm now paying him 500 a month so I don't really get to save anything for myself.

Yes, I graduated high school when I was 17 and now I'm 19 and I still get to spend my days cashiering, bagging and being yelled at by little old ladies. I have eight glowing letters of recommendation gathering dust, a school that's so eager to have a female in it's pre-engineering program they're going to provide me with supplies and books for free but instead he says I have to 'chip in' and 'prove my maturity.'

He doesn't want to make the same mistake with me as he did with his first daughter, (he paid for her to go through college to become an accountant, then paid for law school when she decided she didn't like that, now she's a waitress.) and his son (he paid for his pre-med and med school, now the guy moves furniture.)

I feel like screaming at him sometimes, "I'm not them! Your daughter is an airhead - she makes Alley McBeil look competent. Your son's a druggie, he got high while training and injected some poor lady with the wrong thing, he doesn't deserve to be a doctor. But I'm not Them!'

..
But I doubt that would 'prove my maturity' in his eyes.

 

[Whispersecret]

Don't quit school.

Georgia O'Keefe did pretty well with cow skulls.

Is the whole class shitty, or just that one assignment? I remember when I was getting my art degree, I took 3-d design. The teacher was an idiot. (Also taught Painting I, which was shitty too.) I am still amazed that that man received a salary for what he did, which was nothing.

I don't know if you're going for a degree or not. If you are, look at whether that class is necessary for graduation. You could always just drop the class. Time is very valuable. Why waste it taking a worthless class? Take an extra charcoal class.

P.S. Life drawing is pretty cool. Once you get over the fact that a naked stranger is sitting there allowing you to stare, you can learn a lot!

 

[Mustang Sally]

It seems so unfair that money is so often what determines who does and doesn't go to college. Many deserving students don't go because they can't afford it. Meanwhile, there are kids getting a free ride from their parents who party away their education.

I was lucky enough to have a high-paying student job. I've paid my own way through four years of post-secondary education and have no debt. I know I am extremely lucky. There's no way my mother could have afforded to pay for me, and I wouldn't have asked her to.

 

[Aranian]

Hah! I can tell you about poor teachers. I have a professor this semester who teaches math 140. He's a temporary math professor because his PhD is in something else. Every lecture he gets up in front and talks about study skills for 30 minutes, says something like "Oh and read the chapter 3.4 and do problems 1-92 parts a, b and c." then he walks out 20 minutes early without teaching a thing.

I don't need a teacher, just gimme the darn book.

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Never, I'm guessing you've already explored your options in student financial aid? If you've achieved sophomore status, depending on your major you might want to begin looking into co-ops too. Atleast doing that you might be able to gain some job experience related to your major.