Bugs in my brain

[friezaess]

I am beating myself up for getting 4 out of 5 on a piece of assessment for Creative Writing - an elective, no less - worth 5% as well as giving myself headaches and losing sleep over a draft of my final piece that is due next week.

This is the same mentality that destroyed my art and I don't know how to overcome it. The huge amount of pressure I put on myself to excel in journalism resulted in what will probably be my first fail at uni.

Am I a tortured artist yet? ._.

Comments

[bakames.livejournal.com]

4 is good, fail is bad. There aren't many people that get full marks and most students fail a subject at some stage so you're doing pretty well

[xelyna.livejournal.com]

Come on man, a 4 isn't bad! I'm sure you'll be fine! I was always jealous of those people that everything comes so easily to, but for the rest of us hard work is the only option. You'll get there in the end!

[vysanthe.livejournal.com]

=| You did well! Really.

Your will to excel is admirable but don't beat yourself up about it, really. I dunno. I was pretty okay with my film for experimental; it's worth 70%; then someone showed our whole class one of the films from last year which only got a 6 (out of 7) and we all pretty much wanted to die/quit uni and go for some drinks >_>

of course, quitting won't really get us anywhere.

[vysanthe.livejournal.com]

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[sonictail.livejournal.com]

wow, that comment horribly backfired

[faith-chann.livejournal.com]

your complaining about a 4 out of 5? really? :P
You passed, you did better then passing.
Just think about all the kiddies who didnt that are slicing their wrists as we speak.

[vrrrrt.livejournal.com]

A 4 is still good! And the better your draft is, the less effort you'll have to put into the final product, right?