text: First off, the teachers know what the students will need to know for the next school year. As a student I pick the classes I want to do the following year, but over the summer I usually don't prepare for those courses. Although, over the past two I have had teacher assign summer projects to help ease me into the courses I will be taking. Those summer projects may have seemed like a nuisance at the time, but when I went back to school I felt very prepared for the new courses I would be taking.