text: When students enjoy the project, they tend to stress over it less. Summer break is meant to be a time where students shouldn't have to worry about the stresses of school. It should be a time where the students feel stress free, and free to do what they want. If the students get to decide their own projects, then they would feel less stressed out because the project would be on their own terms. They would get to decide what they wanted, and how they wanted to do it. This would cause less stress because the students would become their own teachers. They would get to learn without having to feel the stressful deadlines or requirements of the teacher-designed assignments they have during the school year. A student-designed summer project is be better for the students themselves because they wouldn't feel the stress that teacher-designed assignments bring during the school year.