{"id":50,"date":"2008-12-10T23:09:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T07:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/?p=50"},"modified":"2008-12-11T00:16:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T08:16:59","slug":"50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/2008\/12\/10\/50\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the day of studying paid off.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty confident that I did passably well on my exam.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d just like to say that the professor who teaches ANTH227, Dr. Vinay Kamat, is an amazing professor.\u00a0 Even on the day of the exam you could tell how much he cares about his students and wants them to succeed.\u00a0 The kind of individual attention and concern he was capable of giving to a class of nearly 100 students was almost superhuman.\u00a0 And even though the material is slightly difficult and the readings are long and rather hard, he&#8217;s said several times that he has never failed a single student.\u00a0 And when he says that, after seeing his quality of teaching, I can say with certainty that it&#8217;s not because the course is easy, but because he&#8217;s that good a prof.\u00a0 I&#8217;d reccomend the course to anybody if only to experience the quality of teaching he brings.<\/p>\n<p>All I have left is my epistemology exam now, and that&#8217;s in a week.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m already well versed enough in the material to write the exam, so I think I&#8217;ll probably only need a day or two to study for it.\u00a0 That leaves me with a significant amount of free time, and I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll be doing with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the day of studying paid off.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty confident that I did passably well on my exam. I&#8217;d just like to say that the professor who teaches ANTH227, Dr. Vinay Kamat, is an amazing professor.\u00a0 Even on the day of the exam you could tell how much he cares about his students and wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}