Personal Narrative: The Smartest Kid In School

A child who grows up constantly being told that they are more intellectually capable than others their age is bound to develop an overconfident attitude. Knowing that they achieved this with minimal effort, they also will become lazy, living their lives carefree. At a time, I was recognized as the smartest student in Happy Valley Elementary School; I grasped concepts and completed work with practically zero effort for all subjects, and my writing ability exceeded those much older than I was. However, when hormones, bad teachers, and hours’ worth of homework quickly emerged in my later years, the confidence had disappeared, the lack of effort increased, and the title of “the smartest kid in school” was stolen from me. In the early days of elementary school, my teachers recognized that I was experiencing boredom in their classes. It was decided that the content I was learning at the time was too easy, but there wasn’t much that could be done to challenge me. Teachers began setting higher expectations for me by making me read more challenging books and correcting my writing samples more strictly. No matter how hard they tried,

During forecasting, I had signed up for two math classes in order to finally be ahead of my peers again, along with “Accelerated English” and “Global Biology” (both considered as more challenging classes). I was warned that I would need to truly discipline myself by completing my enormous amounts of homework on time and studying efficiently, all without being distracted by my friends (and girls). Not learning from the painful experiences of the year before, I dismissed these warnings and found myself falling asleep at 4:00 AM every night with only half of my homework completed for the upcoming school day. I began falling behind in one of my math classes and never even cared to pay attention in my science