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Tackling the Drawabox Homework during summer break

10:11 AM, Monday February 3rd 2025

I am going to college this year and I've been thinking if I could do the lesson during summer break.

I still do my warm ups I learned from lesson 1, and will still do my 250 Box challenge during lunch time when I get approved. But tackling new lessons feel like it's a term, so I thought if I could do it during summer break where I am free?

(I am striving to take a computer science course and I heard its mentally straining)

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1:55 PM, Monday February 3rd 2025

I can only offer my experience here, but I have two conflicting pieces of advice:

  1. If you find yourself wanting to spend your free time on this course, then you should absolutely do it. This course is a tremendous resource if you are willing/able to put the required time/effort into it, but even if you can't, you can still derive some amount of value from it, just keep in mind that what you get out of it will be proportional to how much you're able to put into it.

  2. I discovered this course over a summer break during my undergraduate degree studying computer science, so I understand where you're at. Ultimately I decided to wait to finish DrawABox until after uni, and I'm really glad that I did. I would strongly advise against working on it during the semester. You could work on it over summer/winter breaks and have semester-long gaps in between - that is definitely a viable option. This is a screenshot of Uncomfortable's reply to a similar question on the Discord, about how to handle returning to the course after an extended time away from it. Given that you'd only be taking 3-6 months off at a time, you'd really only need 2-4 days of review and focusing on warm-ups before getting back to the material. Everyone is different, and maybe that schedule works well for you.

The reason I'd advise against doing so is that this course work is cumulative, and you reeeeally start to feel it toward the later lessons. I would liken it to taking Calculus 2 your freshman year and waiting until your final semester senior year to take Differential Equations, with no related math courses in between - you're doing yourself a great disservice in doing so. If you've been struggling with some aspects of the early material (or took enough time away that you forgot some parts of it), then you will inevitably suffer for it later on. I'm about to start on Lesson 7, and I can say definitively that I'm using the information from every single lesson and challenge up to this point. The information provided here is not filler - you'll be using 95% of it until the very end of the course. So for me, having extended periods of time where I'm focusing on something entirely different nearly guarantees that I'll be forgetting some important aspects of it, which would be to my detriment upon returning to the course work.

But obviously everyone is different, and ultimately you can get good value from this course no matter how you work through it. If you have the bandwidth to handle big gaps and are willing to review material often, then go for it! Good luck with your journey and happy drawing :)

4:31 AM, Tuesday February 4th 2025

The advice makes sense. I know I'm going to burn out if I don't plan things, but I think I am able to draw on some tiny bit time for warm ups. While the progress is slow, the warm ups are important where I am currently at. I'll progress the lesson as little by little, and I think this is a good way to learn patience.

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