text: This first piece of evidence of why summer projects should be a mix of both teacher and student design, comes from a conversation I had with one of my friends in 7th grade. It was the almost the end of May and our English teacher had given us our summer reading project. As my teacher started handing out the hefty packets, my friend Generic_Name groaned in disappointment. I looked over to him and said, "Whats the matter?" He responded with that he had always hated the summer reading assignments because they were not very interesting. Since I knew I liked them I jokingly responded, "What do you mean, I love them!" I can still remember Generic_Name's face of disgust and horror when I spoke those words. "Okay,Okay, what would make you enjoy the projects more?" I responded.