text: There are a variety of reasons why students should self lead their projects over their break. Students who are able to implement there own style of learning onto a topic will find themselves understanding the content better. The limitation of guidelines will also relieve stress and unnecessary fear of failure that these students would normally feel during the stressful and long year. Without barriers holding them within a confined though process, they can think more creatively and have more free flowing ideas and topics to put into their project. Also with the luxury of student designed projects they can start and manage the project however they want. For example if they want to get an early start and progressively work on it throughout the summer they can or if perhaps they wanted to have more fun and enjoy the free time, students could wait a month or so and then proceed on starting.