Bilal Rahmani’s intellectual home is his college City Tech, his English classroom, his classmates, and his professor. Rahmani was previously in a depressive state where he only attended without actually being present in mind, wanting to leave and had no ambitions. He didn’t make any friends or join any clubs or do anything, he was just in and out. He didn’t feel interested in anything, not even participating in the classroom. He didn’t care to make any other efforts. This narrative changes in his second semester of college. In his English class, his class was discussing literature by Ernest Hemingway, it was “Cat in The Rain.” He decided to share one his thoughts with the class but a student next to him also had her hand raised and was picked to share. Rahmani had a very strong ego and referred to her as “the dumb girl next to me.” He didn’t believe that anyone around him could interpret the short story better than him. She shared her idea which basically stated that Hemingway was misogynistic, which Rahmani thought was nonsense until the teacher explained that Hemingway was in fact very sexist. He brushed this aside as “a minor slip up.” Right after that the class took turns sharing their ideas about the story and he was presented with so many ideas and different perspectives that this experience was an eye opener for him. His ego was let down and he saw ambition, inspiration, intelligence, and just more to come. He became more open to engaging in the college now and with his class. His intellectual home became the atmosphere of where he learned in his college and the people in it.