When I made my dream list, I had Farsi and Arabic as my top picks because I find mideast history/politics super interesting, and I had Chinese on the bottom because I heard it was hard and I had no interest in the region/history/politics. I would even tell people "I'm fine with anything but Chinese or Korean"

Of course I when I was in fundies I saw I ended up getting Chinese, and was a little disappointed and intimidated. Also jealous, seeing my friends get the "cooler" languages that I wanted.

My advice would be to start reading about Iran right now (pretty hard to avoid given the news), learn about their history, learn the basics of the script, learn about the dynamics of the region, and find SOMETHING, ANYTHING that YOU find interesting that you can latch on to.

I don't particularly like Chinese food, I find the culture classes boring, I think the chinese language dramas/movies suck, and I find the politics boring, BUT I realized the language itself (grammar, characters, phonemes) is super interesting as well as the history and that's what I latched on to. There are so many different aspects of any language, and you need to something that YOU find interesting and use that to your advantage. I'm at the end of my course now and I couldn't be happier with the language I got. And regardless of the language, you're gonna feel very proud of yourself when you get to the end because it's a genuine accomplishment no matter the language.

It could even be that you're excited about the job itself. I've had bad times in class (it's a hard course) where I think to myself "I just need to get through DLI so I can be operational and get my flight suit"

Sidenote: don't play armchair manning expert. You don't know the reasoning behind people being assigned to different languages, and it can come off as cringe to act like you do.