{"id":1221,"date":"2007-02-19T23:31:04","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T07:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2007-02-19T23:31:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T07:31:04","slug":"why-didnt-i-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Why didn&#8217;t I study?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there&#8217;s a good answer to that question but it all probably boils down to procrastination. Sort of how the dorm room got cleaner near finals week. I know I was supposed to study up for my interviews on Tuesday, but I haven&#8217;t been a crammer of facts since I was a pre-med. They surely could quiz me on engineering trivia and I&#8217;d do a poor job of parroting back facts to them. Mainly because instead of buying a book on programming, I read two mysteries and tried to get kernel debugging working over a serial line. Oh, and I went to that ham radio swap meet where, really, the best part was seeing a bunch of people I hadn&#8217;t seen since the last ham radio swap meet.<\/p>\n<p>I was also supposed to meet up with some friends who told me to call but then refused to answer their phone when I did call. Drinking mead and watching Amiga demos. In other words, circling the geek drain.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m scheduled to go to the gym three times this week and my biceps are sore from last Thursday. I think I saw a bunch of women I&#8217;ll never ask out and it&#8217;s just as well. Who has time for dating when they&#8217;re doing ham radio and computer stuff all weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there&#8217;s a good answer to that question but it all probably boils down to procrastination. Sort of how the dorm room got cleaner near finals week. I know I was supposed to study up for my interviews on Tuesday, but I haven&#8217;t been a crammer of facts since I was a pre-med. They surely could quiz me on engineering trivia and I&#8217;d do a poor job of parroting back facts to them. Mainly because instead of buying a book on programming, I read two mysteries and tried to get kernel debugging working over a serial line. Oh, and I went to that ham radio swap meet where, really, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why didn&#8217;t I study?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}