text: Time flies and before anyone knows it people who were just in high school are applying for real life jobs. The way I look at it is high school is the red zone in football, twenty yards away from the touchdown and having four downs to get to the ten yard line. Which now represents college another four downs to get to the end zone, the real world. It's so close but nobody acknowledges it; Why not start early, giving students a chance to choose their own project it may jump start his or her mind and help the student figure out what they may or may not want to do. Giving the students an opportunity to express their own thoughts could start them down the path of their later on career. For example, my father early on in his high school days had trouble in school. From being in the learning disabled classes many would think he would never make it in the real world. It all flipped as a teenager when he decided to do the the paper route every morning. When he first started he hated it, but he then noticed what it was teaching him about himself. He noticed that he was extremely good at communicating and making connections with others. His childhood job later influenced his place in the real world and helped him find his path. If given the chance to be free, and open up their minds students can find and pursue in something that may help them later on in life.