text: A summer project is a good idea, but whether or not it should be designed by the student or by the teacher is still under thought. The benefits of having student-designed projects far outweigh those of having teacher-designed projects. Letting students make their own project allows them to increase their consumption of knowledge of different subjects because they are not sitting in a classroom and being talked to by a teacher. They can do what they want with that subject, making it more enjoyable for them and allowing them to remember more, thus decreasing the need to review for a couple of weeks at the beginning of every school year. Another benefit is that teachers would not have to be worked even more. They are already worked hard for so little pay, so they should not have to worry about creating even more material for students. A student-designed project allows the freedom of imagination. Schools preach the idea that they want students to be free of mind, yet they still have a multitude of confines. Many of us also do not do much during summer break, and if we are able to create something that we would enjoy completing, we would be quite a bit more occupied during the summer. We would be excited to go back to school and share what we learned or did over the summer. For these reasons, student-designed summer projects would be a much more beneficial and accepted form of education over the break.NASA has recently been discussing what is believed to be a face on mars. Some people think that this is some kind of alien marking. The essay says, "scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh."(paragraph 2) This may convince certain people to believe that there was once life on Mars.