Category: Essay 1: Intellectual Home (Page 3 of 3)

My home is a rowhouse building so its always quiet around my neighborhood. I stay on the third floor which is even quieter since I’m more up from the street. I live by myself, but I stay with others who are barely home, so I pretty much get the whole house to myself where I’m able to think and be lonely. Most of the time I’m in my room which is good because that should tell you I enjoy my own company. Even myself I’m barely home. My current intellectual home is process because most of the time when I need to study for an exam or write an essay it’s hard for me to find something to focus on because my mind will be over the place. I would do a lot of research which helps sum up the problems and doodling is something that I also do that helps me come up with ideas for a project or essay. I felt the essay “where I learned to read” because when Scibona wanted to be good at reading, he told his prof. he will read anything if wants him to in order to be great. I felt that because I’m someone who always strive to be the best at something when I start doing. What is my ideal intellectual home? I think it would be a person because just imagine someone who is always there for you to keep you focused and motivated, doesn’t complain about it and just do it out their kind heart.

Kevin Pala

My home can be down in sunset, but I would also consider my old man as one of my intellectual home. I would also consider the soccer field as an intellectual home of mine. ‘Where I Learned To Read’ by Salvatore Scibona is about a high school student who would rather go to work for $3.25 then complete his homework, he would intentionally fail school. He would consider himself as a lost cause, until in high school he was given a brochure of a college that completely flipped his. whole view on school. ‘Superman and Me’ by Shermaine Alexie is about an Indian boy who lived in a reservation and actually taught himself how to read because he would see how his father would really enjoy reading. My intellectual home is to similar to Scibona’s in the sense that we chose work over school. But in my case I have just finished my first year of college in Ohio, and I got put on to this pool construction job and I was bringing in a decent amount money. After a while of working their I completely forgot about school. All I had in mind was going to sleep at 9:00pm and waking up at 5:20am to leave to work. I missed the date to register for my next semester and I didn’t stress it, I thought since I have this job why do I need to go to school. I also relate to Alexie’s intellectual home because at a young age my old man would take me to his games and he would be playing 2-3 games Saturday and Sunday, and I would be their little by little falling for the game. When I was old enough to actually be able to play I joined a team and kept branching out to different teams and playing at different places.

Muhammad Raihan

I am incredibly lazy. I have an extra pencil and pen on my side table just so I don’t have to get off my memory foam bed to find another one, if my pencil ever runs out of lead or something. I love to sleep or rather, I hate to lose it over something as frivolous as homework. Same thing with when I play video games or watch Netflix, I can’t enjoy what i’m into if I have this looming thought that my assignments are due next week. I have either two options, procrastinate and regret it or get the work done now and rule over the rest of my week. I choose the latter. I still feel apathetic over studying but that’s good. Because for me, the more I find the work annoying the more efficiently I’ll get it done so I won’t have to deal with it later. With that in mind I keep everything related to school in my line of sight, I hang my book bag on the wall in front of me and keep a fat binder full of loose-leaf paper on my side table. This table, placed next to my bed is big enough to always be in my peripheral vision. I always have my phone and laptop with me, and since most of my work is online, I am only a few clicks away from initiating any type of studying. Giving myself the easy access is my way of forcing myself to complete my responsibilities.