intellectual home

Asef Choudhury

Prof. Sean Scanlan

English 1101

Essay 1 draft

                                                               Intellectual Home

Definition of Intellectual Home: The places, people, and activities that help a student do their best academic work. Different people have different taste, I have a few place and process what help me to do my best academic work. Currently, my intellectual home is my bedroom, but before the covid 19, when the college campus was open my intellectual home was my college library(places). The class discussion is also one of my intellectual home (process) that helps me to understand my academic work and also helps me do it properly.

In the passage “superman and me” Sherman Alexie’s intellectual home was book reading. The writer Sherman Alexie described how a smart Indian kid ridiculed and mocked by other Indians and non-Indian. Indian kids can make jokes and make everyone laugh at the dinner table but they struggle doing simple reading in school. No one teaches them how to write a poem or novel if someone tries to teach them, some of them who are already sullen and defeated will ignore him with theatrical precision. But the writer was smart he learned how to read and write himself and he also trying to give these lessons to everyone to save their lives.

The environment of the home plays an important role in student’s studies, especially those whole studied from home. “Where I learned to read” by Salvatore Scibona, the writer described his home situation, where the tv was on all day, and it was too crowded that he can’t even study. I think for study environment different people has different choice, but I like a quiet environment, where I can concentrate on my studies. studying in a nice and renowned educational institution helps a student to do better because there is more opportunity to do better. Scibona didn’t like reading, because he thinks reading mess up his mind in an unaccountable way. “American childhood” was presented by, Annie Dillard, I read that and it makes me happy. he copied the first paragraph and hang it on his bedroom dormer wall. In school life when the writer was living with family his intellectual home was the backyard of the house (place), where she used to do the homework.  People of the surrounding also play an important role in student life. In the latter of the story St. john (place) and his classmates (people’s) were writers intellectual home. ST John teaches the writer how to read and his friends who always asked questions. when we ask a question we have the opportunity to increase our knowledge. one person can’t know everything. Some people read a book to meet their requirements, it could be academic or professional, but some people read book read as a hobby, either way, they acquire knowledge.

Currently, my intellectual home is my bedroom, which is not that big. In my bedroom for doing studies, I have a chair, which I moved here from our dining room because I feel comfortable sitting on this chair and there is a small task table, a wardrobe, a shelve and couple of single beds because I share my room with my younger brother. Right now this is the best place in my house to do my academic work. But before the covid19, I used to do my academic work in my college (city tech) library.

I used to finish all my homework over there because it was quiet and everyone in the library is studying which creates a study environment that provokes me to do my work done. The best thing about the library is, it is quiet, what I miss most in my current intellectual home. Class discussion is the crucial process of my intellectual home. Class discussion about a specific topic allows students to share the knowledge about that topic and it also allows students to relate in their daily life. Almost all the professors do class discussions after their lectures, which I love because it helps me to understand the class topic and it’s also helpful to finish the homework because homework is given based on class lectures. That why Bilal Rahmani in his “Chronicles of a Once Pessimistic College Freshman,” mentioned that when everyone was in his English class sharing their idea about a topic that was making so much sense to him, the writer feels that, “The classroom became ink, penetrating the water, which was my mind, adding new colors, creating something completely new, something I alone could never hope to create. The discussion dragged me in, and I too began to share my ideas, adding to the excitement of the classroom.”

In the future, if I had an opportunity I want to create a room where I could only do the studies only. The room has to be big enough where I could set nice table with a gaming chair. I choose gaming chairs because they are so comfortable, and I also want to put the table near a window, so through the window, I could see the outside view. I want my study room soundproof and I also want to keep a speaker in my room so when I will get bored of studying, I could listen to some music for freshness.

Intellectual home is not only for students, it could be for everyone. Intellectual home helps to do the best work done in a sufficient way. Everyone should think about the intellectual home concept so that they could do the best work done so that they could be successful in the future.