being 17 years old is hard

Got this from Katie Connor and posted it as a note on my facebook account!

Sadly I am now almost 18 years old and I think 18 is even harder than 17... actually it's not that much different since I am still in my last year of High School!!

17 is arguably the hardest age of life

Constantly, we are asked the same questions over and over again. “Where are you going to college?” “What colleges are you applying to?” “What are you going to for a living?” Then we have to worry about our grades, are they good enough? Am I studying enough? Am I doing enough? Are my parents going to kill me for that “lower-than-ideal GPA”? Then we have to worry about our SAT’s and making the high grade on that test we studied so hard for to get an A (or at least a passing grade). Then Mid Term exams, which weighs just as much as a whole 6 weeks grade, which is 1/4th of the semester grade. We constantly have to keep some hand sanitizer close on hand, because we feel we can’t afford to get sick, or we will miss too much homework and get behind. If there is a boyfriend or girlfriend in our lives, we try our best to spend at least some time with him or her, even if that means cutting into some of our studying time. We feel exhausted because we have too little sleep to function normally. Our parents yell and scream at us because we’ve had too much on our minds to remember to unload the dishwasher or take out the trash. Parents don’t understand that our lives are very stressful and complicated, nor does anybody else who is not 17. This is the stage in life where we have to find ourselves and know exactly what we want to do in life. What we choose to do is most likely the most important decision we ever make in our life time.