{"id":24279,"date":"2020-07-27T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=24279"},"modified":"2020-07-27T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:15:31","slug":"terry-tao-on-nearly-failing-his-generals-exams-at-princeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=24279","title":{"rendered":"Terry Tao on nearly failing his Generals exams at Princeton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terry Tao on nearly failing his Generals exams at Princeton:<br><br>&quot;this was the first time I had performed poorly on an exam that I was genuinely interested in performing well in. But it served as an important wake-up call and a turning point in my career&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gWMYLP6U31\">https:\/\/t.co\/gWMYLP6U31<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alex Kontorovich (@AlexKontorovich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexKontorovich\/status\/1287783464717230081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematiques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24280,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24279\/revisions\/24280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}