Creative block at during my first internship

From my experience, if you don't feel lost once in a while you probably aren't pushing, or challenging yourself. Whether you should be pushing or challenging yourself is up to you, there is no ultimate right or wrong answer - but I'd suggest that you should be doing so at the start of your career.

The purpose of an internship is to absorb as much as you can from those around you - they are doing what you want to be able to do. Quiz them, follow them around, grab as much info, hints, tips and ideas as you can. Again, from experience, people will rarely volunteer the information that you need unless you ask for it or search it out.

Final point: you mention 'a bunch of extremely boring tasks'. Always look harder at something that seems boring and ask why you find it boring. It may just be that you are looking at it incorrectly or don't yet fully appreciate what it is or what the opportunities it provides are (Think Karate Kid - wax on, wax off). Don't get me wrong, design is a job just like any other in that it has dull admin bits and stuff you need to do to get to the stuff you want to do, but if you are passionate about the job then the boring bits seem like a very low price to pay.

"P.s: im more into artistic stuff and illustrations rather than technical things."

there are two ways to look at that statement:
1. you are an artist. and not wired for "business" type work
2. you're young and understandably immature and want to do fun stuff rather than WORK.

i was both of those things when i was at your point. that was back in 1993 or so. but over time i grew an appreciation and LOVE of what i could do creatively in the business of graphic design.

or should i really consider something else instead of graphic design cuz im really depressed about it!

Yes, you've already guessed it yourself. You are indeed in the wrong profession and should switch right away. Since you are 1 year from a degree, go ahead and finish that off. Then change careers immediately. I recommend the fast-paced world of telemarketing. Meeting new people, talking on the phone a lot, fleecing the elderly - the rewards are many.

Your education has perhaps been training you to be a great graphic designer, but not much of an employee at an ad agency. Or at least not *this* ad agency. So what? Continue learning what you want to do, focus on doing it for a living, and look for a better fit next time.

The only caveat I have is to ask whether or not you believe your school is only preparing you to be a good student (or maybe teacher someday), and not providing you with an adequate list of real-world expectations. You're wise to take internships (and lucky to gave gotten one). You might want to see if your city has a good temp employment agency for designers. That would give you a bunch of short-term "interships" in a variety of workplaces where, usually, they treat you less as a kid and more of a fellow professional. You can build an impressive, diverse portfolio working that way, and the pay is usually decent. Sometimes, you'll find that you fit in so nicely somewhere that it turns into a full-time gig. Or you might learn you like the "episodic" nature of freelance work and you can think of starting your own company.

Good luck! Don't be discouraged. You're in a stage in life when you're *supposed* to question what direction(s) your life is taking. If you don't go through this, you might wind up in some horrible situation, wondering how on earth you got there.

Agree with Mara. When I was in school, the way the instructors talked it seemed like ALL of us were going to end up working at ad agencies eventually. Guess what? I get out in the real world and discover I HATE working for agencies. I hate the office politics, I hate the fact everything is design by committee, I hate 2 hour meetings where nothing gets accomplished, I hate the fact you can never point to any project that's all your own... It's amazing to me that ANYTHING creative is ever accomplished at an agency. But the good news is you don't have to work for an agency or a marketing firm. This field is wide open - there are a lot of different things you might end up doing 5, 10, 15 years from now. Illustrating (if that is your forte) is certainly a possibility. Get your degree, do the "boring" work for a few years to make some money and to learn the business end (how illustrators make money, for instance) - then everything else will fall into place imho.

Thanks all for your support! :) yep i am originally an artist as wgzn mentioned so this field worries me a bit due to the restrictions, maybe i need to grow more in graphic design and get adapted to a more technical form of art. As well as absorbing more and maturing in the field. It's also so true that at my design school some of the tutors make it sound like we're heading towards the advertising world once we graduate :S It's scary after trying to work there!! I guess i will need to widen my skills and practice a lot in order to develop into a successful designer.

Creative block is very common, and thats where the ordinary will give-up and extra-ordinary will come-over... and might come up with award wining creative idea... so take it as challenge.

You mentioned "Boring Tasks", my friend it will remain like this, you always have to create same kind of things like logos, creative idea to adopt on different medias and so on... you you should enjoy what you are doing and I think this is why you had that creative block because you already have a mind set that its boring...

If you dont enjoy what you do, then do what you enjoy...

Thanks a lot again :) I guess i will fight till the end :D because i love graphic design after all!