I'm sooooo tired of these assignments

I'm realising something about myself. I hate projects where I am supposed to choose my own theme/topic. I cannot engage with them. I'm not asking to be told exactly what to do, but I've enjoyed so much more the projects where I have a starting point in terms of theme/visuals, and even the materials that I can use.

I have to write a proposal for the dissertation that I'll have to write in my 3rd year, and I don't have a clue where to start in terms of theme for it. All I know is that I would like it to be about animation/motion graphics.

And I'm also so fed up with doing research. I don't know if I'm researching wrong, but a lot of the time I feel like I can't find anything relevant to what I would like to do. Although, I'm sure it doesn't help that I don't really know what I'm looking for.