Bilal Rahmani’s Intellectual Home- Steven Romero

Rahmani despite being a straight A student lacked the motivation in all his school work showing this in the early paragraphs of this reading, he stated this when he expressed his emotions towards his first semester “first month of college passed in this depressive state”. I also empathize with that feeling of not finding motivation for my studies, as school can be a depressive cycle of loneliness and stress. After he starts his next semester he is in an english class reading a short story named  “cat in the rain” . He believes that his classmates are simpletons and wouldn’t understand “the enigmatic allegories he presents in his writing” in hand belittling his classmates. Although Rahmani also comes off as an egotistical person when he name calls  his classmate for expressing her point of view, what he later finds out  is that he was wrong for believing that. After being able to discuss and understand his classmates point of view he finds out he is impressed and starts to add onto the conversation. This  is when he finally finds his intellectual home. An intellectual home being a place where he enjoys to learn and doesn’t feel that same depressive cycle he was stuck in the first semester.