text: Although doing a student designed project might be easier for the student, it could also really hurt the students grade. As it is a summer project you want your grade on it to be really good so you can start off the year right. Doing it to what you think your teacher may want it to be like is risky. Not knowing what exactly the teacher wants or how you should do it, your grade will suffer. I have had summer projects before and only one of them had been a student designed project. I have found it to be way more beneficial for it to be teacher designed projects than student designed. My grade can prove that is true. Having that rubric or direction sheet in front of you can go a long way instead, of basing it off of what you think.