Rahmani’s intellectual home definitely seems to be City-tech due to the fact that he claims City-tech has crafted his genius for what it is today. For example, in the final paragraph Rahmani states “my experiences, knowledge, and ambitions have joined together to create who I am, a no-longer-pessimistic student at New York City College of Technology”. In the beginning of his college experience, Rahmani was apathetic towards his college career, finding no hope or ambition to learn anything new from anyone else. His dislike for college grew stronger as everyday went on. For instance, he says “from my dreary perspective at the time, my lackluster professors seemed to give little effort towards inspiring their students, and the students made no effort to better their classes in any way. To me, no one seemed to really attend this college; everyone seemed to be in a state of leaving, ears pinned to an invisible evacuation siren”. However, after having a class discussion about Hemingway, these feelings change because he starts listening to a perspective that the teacher deemed correct. After putting his ego aside, he realizes that school isn’t something that’s around for no reason, it’s ultimately there for the purpose of learning. Which is why he saw City-tech as his intellectual home, because he didn’t academically flourish anywhere else more.