Essay 1

Any little distraction strips my focus right from my very hands. I can admit I have the attention span of a squirrel. Which is why my intellectual home consists of a mixture of process and place with no people. The place for my intellectual home is anywhere that has peace and quiet indoors (mainly a library or my room late at night). I get distracted too easily so I cannot have any noise whatsoever. The process is disciplining myself to get assignments done and being determined to succeed in life. Everything that I do is part of a flight of stairs towards my career, and school plays a big part in it. The essay that I can relate to the most is Salvatore Scibona’s essay “Where I learned to read.” I intentionally flunked my second semester of college spring semester of 2021, and did not go to my 3rd semester either. I returned to school in the spring semester of 2022 and had a 3.4 term gpa. My second choice is Bilal Rahmani’s essay “Chronicles of a Once Pessimistic College Freshman” simply because moving forward his adjustment to college is how I plan to prosper during my time here. While I can relate to Scibona’s writing in the past, I can relate to Rahmani’s essay in the present and near future. In order to support this, I will first describe my intellectual home in detail. Second I will explain how both writings relate to me and my intellectual home. Lastly, I will explain how my intellectual home will help me succeed in life.