Ah, project criticism. You were hoping you were perfect in your second year?

Advice is the same; do your own thing and look at the criticism critically; if it doesn't help you, it's an instructor's idea of how they'd do it with their background and experience but design is a little like art and the artist gets the last say. There really isn't any right and wrong about it so rather than "criticism" I'd just think of it as "opinion" and pretend you're a teenager and an adult is telling you how to run your life. They may have had experience down the road you haven't gotten to yet but you still have to evaluate the experience to see how it might fit your own life.