text: Summer project should be student-designed due to students having a hectic schedule to maintain over the summer. As summer is seen as a time of the year when students can relax and take a break from school; however, this is far from the truth. Most student in middle schools or high school, two grade levels that give summer project, have jobs or they will travel with his or her family during the summer. But when schools slap these projects on top of their hectic schedule, it is almost like the schools is ordering the student to not complete the task. If schools were to find a way to condense the work or make it a little review, then more students would be able to find a time during their hectic schedules to complete the project over the course of the summer.