Nobody’s coming to drag you to the desk. That’s bad news and total freedom in the same sentence.

Once school or a boss stops supplying the structure, the only thing left is what you decide, and that arrives as both a relief and a weight. No one will notice if you do nothing, which also means no one gets to determine what you do. Both halves of that are true at once, and most people only feel one of them.

Build the external pressure yourself rather than waiting for it. A time, a person expecting something, a place you only go to work. Freedom is easier to use with a little structure poured into it.