Personal Narrative: How I Want To Be Remembered In One Word

How I Want to be Remembered in One Word
When I leave middle school, I want to be remembered as clever. Clever means to be quick to understand and to be intelligent. I am a very creative and very smart. I feel that I haven’t really had a chance to show my fellow classmates how clever and creative I can be. If I had to describe myself in two main categories, I would chose athletics and smarts. I think that I can get farther with my smarts than with my athletics. My whole family has been a very smart family. My mom and dad were both in honors classes and got straight A’s, and me and my brother have gotten straight A’s almost every year. I think people see me as the smart teacher’s pet, who is good with math and science but isn’t very creative or good with the arts. I’ll tell you now that I am creative, my brain isn’t only facts. But that is what school is, facts,
so all they see is how I can memorize things, but I think STEAM is the perfect place to show my classmates that I can be creative. Especially the Shark Tank project. I love to come up with or invent things. If you give me information then, in my head, I start coming up with ideas and pictures about how to use the information you gave me. I think clever is a very good way to describe me. I am smart and creative and I can understand complex things. I have always wanted to be clever and maybe next year I can change the way I act to be seen as clever.
I think if I open up more and share my ideas more to the class than my classmates with see the creative side of me.
Clever also means to be quick to understand. I do understand things really easily. Most of the time you only have to explain things to me once or twice and I will get what you are trying to say. I think if we did more projects and complicated or difficult things in class, then it would be easier for me to show my cleverness. It is sort of hard to show my classmates, in class, how clever I am, but I am sure I will figure out a way.
Right now I think most people see me as quiet. I am the person who only talks to my friends unless I have to otherwise. I barely participate in class and I would rather work by myself than with a large group. I am an introvert, I would much rather be by myself in my room than with a lot of people outside. I also hate presenting, I have become more comfortable with it because of PBL (thanks), but I still would rather do the work and let someone else present my idea. I’m pretty sure teachers see me as quiet too, but ask any of my friends and you’ll get a different
story.
One reason I want to be seen as clever is because I have always wanted to live up to my parents, and both of my parents are very clever, and smart. They always come up with good ideas, they are very creative, and they are two of the smartest people I know. Both of my parent are good role models and I think I am very lucky to have them to look up to.
Another reason I want to be seen as clever is because I feel that no one notices me because I am quiet, and all they know me for is that I do gymnastics (I actually do tumbling now) and they don’t even know how good I am. I want to stand out, I want to be remembered. I don’t want to be popular though, just stand out, in a good way. I feel that if people knew how creative and intelligent I am, then they would notice me more and remember me better.
Right now I feel that I am very clever, I just have to show my class mates what I already have. There are many ways I can do this, and I am very confident that I can do it. It might take a little work, but I am up for the challenge. I would rather work hard and be remembered, than be lazy and be forgotten. I want to be clever, so clever I shall be.