Nerd: How My Experience That Changed My Identity

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Have you ever done something amazing that changed your image and got you an identity? My strongest identity would be a Nerd and I received this title from some significant experiences in my life which also changed my image among my peers. My first experience was that I memorized the entire periodic table of elements at which all of my peers in Science class were amazed and gave me the identity of a Nerd. One of my other experiences was that in Grade 10 Mathematics my peers and other people noticed my passion in Math and my determination to solve Math Challenges which people admired and my identity as Nerd became stronger with this event. My most recent experience was in my Careers Course from the second half of the first semester of Grade 10 when I had presented strong content in my projects related to the Career I wanted to pursue. All of my class members highly admired my details and from this event my identity as a Nerd had never been stronger. …show more content…

I had memorized the whole periodic table in around one to two weeks and then I went and recited it in front of my Science class. All of my peers were amazed at my photographic memory powers because there were around 118 elements on the periodic table and memorizing all of them would be very difficult and need a high power of memory, some of my peers called this power a gift. The majority of my peers commented that generally only Nerds would have such amazing and stellar powers and they gave me the identity as a

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