text: By the end of the school year, most students are also mentally drained due to the amount of hours they put in just to do well in school. Students can be easily stressed out by large amounts of work and this is usually what they will encounter during the school year. A teacher-designed project would not only decrease the level of stress, but it would give less freedom to students when it comes to what the project has to be about, which in this case may be a good thing because giving the students more freedom would ultimately create more stress for the teacher. More freedom would lead to more stress because students could then do a project on anything they wanted to, which means that the teacher would have to analyze and grade a different assignment for each of their students.