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@Loose, If you put it that way, yeah things get done a lot faster. On the other hand, I didn't get that kind of instruction, but instead the teacher just told us to make whatever for our assignments, and he would come to help out if we decided to go beyond what he taught the class as a whole. Me, I always go overboard, making some fantasy coatl/dragon hybrid for the creatures assignment >_>

@Erich, Stuff you can try to model:

A tree
An hourglass
An animal (don't try skinning, the polygons are complex enough)
A pylon
Some weapon
Your avatar >_>

All of these you can do in less than 15 minutes. Except a realistic tree, that'll take much longer.