text: Because schools encourage teachers to implement summer assignments to better prepare students for the upcoming school year, these projects serve to ease students into their courses. For instance, prior to my junior year of high school I received a teacher-designed project in my AP Biology course. With junior year being my first year of AP courses, I was unfamiliar with what the class would entail. Fortunately however, the project designed by my teacher provided me a basis of what I would begin to learn in Fall and the depth of what my understanding would need to be. Although a long project, I learned vocabulary terms and studied biological processes which became useful throughout the school year in the class. Through completion of the project, although inexperienced with such high level classes, I entered the school year confident and ready for my college leveled assignments. With my understanding of the content I would be learning, I also earned time-management skills as I knew how much effort would be needed for the class. Despite as a student I found the summer assignment to be tedious, those teacher-designed projects fully prepared me for my intensive class load for my junior year of high school.