Rahmani’s Intellectual Home-Travis Cole

Rahmani’s intellectual home is learning around or with others. When he is learning by himself, he isn’t able to really connect with what he is doing. It seems that when others are around and involved, they are able to able to bring him out and make him think critically and from a different perspective. These interactions with his peers and professors make learning a unique and moving experience for him. While the college is important because gives him a place to connect with others, it is the connections that he makes that really matter. Their input allows him to grow and absorb what the others around him are putting out. From there he is able to process this information, apply it to himself, and it can possibly change him. That way he isn’t just stuck in his ways of thinking. Being around people with the opportunity to discuss, tutor, be taught, whatever it may be, really makes the difference for Rahmani. With his peers he can share and be shared with, that is not something you can do by yourself. It gets him off of his mental island and builds bridges to the minds of others around him. Only then is he really learning.