Yes. I always want to be overly thorough. My teachers have always told me that I do more work than is necessary, and that I basically should just be more straight-forward and formulaic with my writing. Some, on the other hand, have really appreciated that I go the extra mile and have a real interest in what's being taught.
Are there certain areas of study where Ne may be more or less useful? I agree, too, that with history Ne is practically useless. History I see as pretty much specific to Si. I never had fun with any of those classes, until some sort of creative project was involved once in a while back in highschool. Math didn't become fun until it became applied to things like economics, and therefore created psychological and societal implications, which my Ne is able to feed on. Otherwise math is better suited for Ni, because Ni can create a web of formulas and theorems and hold onto them forever, whereas with Ne, I want to go one step further with it somehow and will easily become distracted and forget about details. Any subject area that had some sort of open-endedness, such as language, always won my favor. It allowed me to be myself, but I still had a teacher or two that would complain my writing is too subjective.