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7:58 PM, Monday December 4th 2023

Congratulations on getting through your 250 boxes! Your lines look clean, and I see a lot of improvement start to finish. You could use a bit more variety in size/shape/divergence/orientation, but you accomplished the primary goal of learning to estimate converging lines.

It appears that something abruptly "clicked" for you in a good way, around box 97. Before that page, many of your boxes had diverging lines. Afterwards, very few had that issue. What changed for you there?

In any case, good work, and carry on!

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On to lesson 2! Try to get feedback on discord (in the lesson 2 channel) as you go through the lesson, to catch any errors early.

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2:22 AM, Tuesday December 5th 2023

I think I remember the day I was about to do 97 I looked at videos of other people doing the 250 box challenge. I realized why my boxes didn't feel like the examples the instructions showed on the assignment page after watching multiple videos on the assignment the same day.

5:34 PM, Tuesday December 5th 2023

That's awesome--way to dig into it and figure it out!

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Carry on

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