My perspective of “”Bilal Rahmani’s Intellectual home”, is that he constantly thought that he didn’t belong when it came to school until he got to college. He would constantly ask, “why am i here”? Getting rejected from the middle school of his choice and getting shoved into “The high school for Health Professions and Human services” definitely made him think about weather or not he really liked school and if he belonged.  Although he considered himself a smart student and proved this through his SAT’s, being the ideal student,  and completing all his assignments, which caused his ego to increase, his hard work wouldn’t pay off.  Regardless of the “endless hours” he would work on assignments he would still end up failing. This then caused him to not care as much for school and he would end up skipping classes,  and slack off a lot more, yet he still surprisingly passed. When Rahamani began college in the spring of 2011, he took an English class in which he had to read and discuss the short story “The Cat in the Rain” by Earnest Hemingway. The discussion afterwards is what ended up changing the way he viewed school. He became more engaged, enjoyed the discussions, and debates that ended up taking pace in his classes. The “wall of egoism vanished” and he was able to finally see what college was really like. His ambitions changed, and he found his place in the community.