Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?
> I've found myself sitting at my desk each evening<p>Wait, isn't that what daytime is for?<p>Get out. Play games. Read. Write. Ride a bike. Build something with your hands, with code, whatever. Hit the gym. Cook complicated dishes. Go to restaurants. Join a club and make some friends. Even sleep more.<p><i>You</i> need to find what <i>you</i> like to do with your time, and truth is it's probably not what you want it to be. Picking up hobbies and mastering them is what drives a lot of people through life. If that interacts positively with $DAYJOB, that's great but it's rare.<p>---<p>Having read some of the other replies now, it's slightly disturbing how many of them draw to one of two conclusions: there's something chemically wrong with you, or you've made a massive mistake in life and you need to immediately change every decision you've made up to this point.<p>Sometimes life lulls. Unless there <i>is</i> something wrong —and yes professional assessment might help here— making massive and/or pharmacological changes to your life might be worse than just riding it out.<p>I'd personally just shoot for happy first. Treat this as burnout —as anybody working might call it— and take small corrective measures to improve <i>you</i>. If you need an extension to your studies, you can get an extension to your studies. Life isn't going to leave you behind.