Do you remember the last day of school before summer break? The clock ticking down to the end of the day, and then that wild, wonderful feeling of freedom? You have all summer to do literally anything you want. 

Cut to summers in adulthood, where you blink and suddenly there are Halloween decorations up. What gives? Why do summers seem to last forever when you're growing up but only a couple of days as an adult? Well in a new episode of Popular Science's Ask Us Anything podcast, we explore just that.