Marathon

So this week marks the end of the first six weeks of my last semester senior year.  Similar to every other second semester senior, I have no motivation.  Once applications are submitting we are told to wait.  There is nothing else we can do, everything we have spent our short lives attempting to accomplish has been submitted.  While I know colleges look at my second semester senior grades, there is something in me that has given up.  At seventeen I should not feel burnt out, I have my whole life ahead of me there is no need to feel like a grandma. 

My parents always told me my job was to get into college, and the rest of my life would fall into place.  These last four years have been a marathon, in order to compete there was no stopping for a break.  While my parents my disagree, I have spent 95% of my past four years working towards this goal.  I am exhausted.  I just want to sleep and relax for a year.  I always thought people that took a year off in between   high school and college were lazy, but maybe it makes sense to take a year off between these two races to regain our bearings.