text: Moreover, allowing students to choose a topic that interests them will lead to a project that they will be committed to learning and completing. Psychologists deftly assert that learning and retention of information increases exponentially when the student is adamant to learn and interested in the topic. The "inner self-drive" can be a very powerful factor when determining how well someone can learn something. For example, I had an SAT tutor when I was younger to help me get my dream score. I would always score perfect, or near perfect scores on the science passages that interested me, but the history passages were always my weak point because I had no interest in reading them. My tutor told me the key to understanding the boring, dry, and uninteresting passages was to read it as if you were interested in it. The same philosophy applies here, but instead of forcing students to do projects on uninteresting topics, they can be able to choose their topic of genuine interest and do an exemplary job on it. By letting students choose their topic of research, they lose the lethargic, apathetic mindset that comes with a forced assignment, and foster a new motivated outlook.