text: Whether we think we know everything or not, we are still students who are learning and growing from our mistakes. At times we might think we know whats best for us, and that might be true in some cases, but a lot of the time taking someone's advice who is older then us and is much more experienced, helps. Students might argue with their teachers that what they've learned and studied all year will stay in their memory and that they don't need summer projects on them. But the benefit of having teacher-designed projects is that it helps us not forget what we've learned all year, they are designed in a way that help us retain our knowledge. This way the effort our teachers put in to teach us new things does't go to waste. One summer my biology teacher had given me a summer project of making a 3D display of the heart. At first I didn't want to do it but my teacher advised me that it'll help me retain the knowledge I knew about the heart, which indeed it did. In the beginning everything I knew about the heart wasn't as perfectly stored in my memory but after doing this project not only did I know the parts of the heart but also all of their functions and the purpose of the heart which is to pump blood. Not only was I able to learn and memorize my material perfectly but I also learned new things. If my teacher had let us pick and design our own summer projects, knowing myself I would have picked something that would have been far too easy and on a topic that I knew I was perfect at. That wouldn't have helped me at all ,although it would have been easy work I wouldn't have learned anything and I would have wasted my time. Being a student means that you should always be learning something, teacher-designed summer projects are might for this reason.