I'm almost 21 years old and I am not ashamed to admit that one of my favorite TV shows is a cartoon. I swear it’s an adult cartoon. Okay, woah, chill. It’s not that kind of “adult cartoon.” It’s just “Bob’s Burgers,” the hit animated comedy about a man named Bob who owns and runs a burger restaurant with help from his wife and their three children. While the restaurant itself doesn’t seem particularly interesting, lucrative, or successful, Bob and his family — the Belchers — find themselves in some pretty funny situations and watching their shenanigans always makes me chuckle. It might not be groundbreaking television, but it’s good stuff. Check it out.

Anyway.

Watching the Belchers at this time of year always reminds me of one of the show’s most poignant lines. Bob’s children are on summer vacation and Gene, the middle Belcher child, laments about how stressful summer can be. “There’s too much pressure to enjoy yourself," he says. (See: The cover image to this article for a visual representation of said scene.)

I wouldn’t necessarily describe “Bob’s Burgers” as a poignant show, but for a college student who has just moved home for the summer and is adjusting to a much quieter, slower paced lifestyle in her hometown, this line is, well, poignant.

Now that school’s out and I am officially on summer vacation, I have way more free time to do the things I need to do to be a semi-responsible adult (i.e. work and make money) and the things I need to do to keep my soul happy (i.e. binge-watch the latest season of “Bob’s Burgers” on Netflix). I also have way more free time to do, well, nothing at all.

At first, the whole idea of doing “nothing at all” sounds like pure bliss. You don’t have to set an alarm for the morning, you have nowhere to be during the day, and hey, you don’t even have to shower or put on a bra like ... ever. After a few days of lounging in your own self-righteous laziness, however, “nothing at all” starts to become a chore. The summer days dwindle and boredom creeps in like the ominous fog in a Stephen King movie right before the scary-jumpy part. You log onto Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. to escape the monotony of every day only to see your high school classmates and college friends traveling the world, tanning on some beach, or sitting on a Ferris wheel and eating soft serve with the love of their life at the state fair. And you are still at home doing “nothing at all.” Suddenly you start to panic, convinced that you are wasting what’s left of your precious youth watching daytime television in a pile of your own junk-food induced filth.

Is this really what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they lawfully established summer as the Party Season of Nonstop Fun?

Look, summer is a funky little beast. The pressures associated with the school year are finally gone, but they have only been replaced with this insane pressure to “have fun” and “make the most of your free time.” You can rejoice that you no longer have to be in class, but if you’re not surrounded by friends at every moment, then you might as well be a hermit. You can stay up all night, but that better not be because all you’ve been doing is flipping through syndicated episodes of “Friends” and “Full House” on Nick at Nite. (Also, why are you watching “Full House” and not “Fuller House”? Keep up, for the love of laugh tracks.) In a lot of ways, summer can be more stressful than the school year, finals week included.

So, friends, all I gotta say to that is this: Chill. Out. Sure, there is absolutely nothing wrong with making your time off from school as productive and enjoyable as possible, but if you have no summer plans, relax. Literally. It’s cool. Summer vacation is one of the only times in your life when it’s totally acceptable to be a lazy, unproductive member of society. Because in a few years, you will have to be a productive member of society. You will be a college graduate who has to find a job to support themselves and pay off their student loans. Sitting on the couch all day and night once you have that college degree is generally frowned upon by your parents and the outside world, but while you still have that buffer of a university to attend come August, then it’s all good.

As summer officially begins and you unpack your college bags to settle into life at home again, try to relish these few months of having nothing to do. They are precious and fleeting, and once you’re back at school or out in the real world, you will definitely miss the days you could wake up at noon with absolutely no responsibilities.

Oh, and watch “Bob’s Burgers” while you’re at it. Like, come on. You’ve got nothing better to do.