text: Finally, students will be much more excited to work on their summer project if the project is student-designed. Younger students and teenagers mostly want to do only what they want to do. When a project is being forced upon a student with specific guidelines, the student will most likely not have as much enjoyment doing the project. It can be compared to being told to wash the dishes from a parent rather than doing the dishes yourself without being told. When you are being told to wash the dishes from a parent, your enjoyment of the chore goes down slightly compared to doing them yourself with no parent telling you what to do. This summer project can be treated the same way, when the teacher says that the project can be up to your entire imagination and student-designed, the student will have a much more enjoyable time doing the project. But if the teacher gives out specific guidelines about how to do the project a certain way, that can bring down the overall motivation and enjoyment the student may have.