{"id":26,"date":"2008-04-29T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T15:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-04-29T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T15:08:16","slug":"exams-and-studying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Exams and studying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exams are coming up shortly, and I have slowly been preparing for them. I just have issues with actually studying, as I never really learned how to study properly. Some people can sit down and study for hours on end and learn the material. My problem is that I get the general idea of things way too quickly, and the specifics have a tendency to bore the daylights out of me, which means that I don&#8217;t really want to learn them all that much. They are in the books, so why bother to actually learn them? If I need them, I go look them up in the books, dammit! The key is knowing that those details exist and where to get my hands on them when I need them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exams are coming up shortly, and I have slowly been preparing for them. I just have issues with actually studying, as I never really learned how to study properly. Some people can sit down and study for hours on end and learn the material. My problem is that I get the general idea of things way too quickly, and the specifics have a tendency to bore the daylights out of me, which means that I don&#8217;t really want to learn them all that much. They are in the books, so why bother to actually learn them? If I need them, I go look them up in the books, dammit! The key is knowing that those details exist and where to get my hands on them when I need them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[51,52],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","tag-exams","tag-study-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}