A student-athlete life

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Section count: 41

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Field Related Analysis:

Education : 26 matches (School, choice, class, classes, college, course, courses, diagnostic, don, failed, field, goal, grades, graduate, graduation, learn, level, market, motivation, options, scholarship, school, student, term, training, university)

Psychology : 22 matches (action, addiction, average, class, client, dream, drug, environment, field, motivation, need, order, pain, player, rank, remember, risk, sense, sleep, stress, superior, weed)

Nursing : 20 matches (addiction, ankle, body, crisis, dominant, drug, environment, Health, heel, hook, injury, pain, play, responsibility, sense, sleep, SNAP, stress, superior, injured)

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A student-athlete life

Montmoreny

You are a football player for the "Nomades de Montmorency". You are studying in civil engineering for the past 2 and a half years.

At this point, you are finishing your courses and there are many options to continue your life. You can either choose to go to the university or to go directly working.

Choice 1 : Universities.

Choice 2 : Drop-out of school.

University

Universities.

You played football for nine straight years. At your last season, you were so dominant that you get tons of scholarship to go play for different teams all across Canada.

Choice 1 : Carleton University.

Choice 2 : British Colombia University.

Carleton university

Carleton University.

Carleton University is rank 346 in the world for the best University and top 20 in Canada. In football, they are in the top two in Ontario and top 10 in Canada. In these universities they are specialized in civil engineering (the environment more) and in structural engineering.

Choice 1 : Civil enineering environment.

Choice 2 : Structural engineering.

Civil environment engineer

Civil enineering environment.

Civil engineering is one of the most stressful program above all, so to help yourself deal with it, one of your friends proposes you to smoke some weed.

Choice 1 : Do weed.

Choice 2 : Don't do weed.

Weed

Do weed.

You decide to smoke to get rid of the stress cause by your program but you can still continue your studies.

Choice 1 : A lot of weed.

Choice 2 : Smoke weeds sometimes.

A lot of weed

A lot of weed.

It's easy to get hook on weed and become to start an addiction. You start spiraling and enter the world of drugs. You quit school and start to sell weed by your own.

Choice 1 : Become a small drug dealer.

Drug dealer

Become a small drug dealer.

You started your own company that as taken a whole new level. You take control of all the market in Montreal. A big client propose you a big deal that would make you rich, so during the exchange, things escalated quickly and you end up getting shot.

Choice 1 : Getting shot during a deal.

Weed

Smoke weeds sometimes.

You decided that smoking weed is really helping you but decided that this isn't worth getting addict. So, you started to smoke only during crisis time or when finals where near, just to calm yourself.

Choice 1 : Become a leader in environmnent.

BCU

British Colombia University.

British Colombia University (BCU) is rank 43rd in the world and second in Canada. This university is harder but there're greater benefits at the end. This university may be the tougher, but it's also where the party goes hard every day.

Choice 1 : Party everyday.

Choice 2 : Study.

No weed

Don't do weed.

You choose to do not smoke any weed. You know that drugs isn't gonna help you enough, but you know what will help you during crisis days. You know that exercices would be a lot more effective on both your body health and mental health.

Choice 1 : Become a leader in environmnent.

Structural

Structural engineering.

Carleton University are really in advance when it comes to structural engineering. So, you pass all your program courses and graduate in time. Two months after your official graduation, you receive a job offer as a estimator for a company called : "SNC Lavalin". You couldn't resist so you took the job.

Choice 1 : Estimator.

Party

Party everyday.

You decide that you were young and only had one life to live, so you decide to party with your teammates. You were always tired so you decide to sleep over your studies and less studies means bad grades.

Choice 1 : Get bad grades.

Study

Study.

You valorized school over having fun, because in the long term, you know that it'll pay off.

Choice 1 : Get good grades.

Drop-Out

Drop-out of school.

You decided that school wasn't for you, so you quit college. You have two choice, to go in the army or to go play pro football.

Choice 1 : Army.

Choice 2 : Playing pro football.

Drug dealer

Getting shot during a deal.

In the street of Montreal, times are difficult and that deal went terribly wrong. Everything was supposed to go great, but in life you can't control everything.

Choice 1 : Try again

Environment

Become a leader in environmnent.

You were so good in school and when you were working, that you easily climbed the ladder and become a environmentalist in command of all oparation in Quebec.

Choice 1 : Try again

Estimator

Estimator.

School was easy for you and it pays off. Once you got out off university the well-known engineer firm called you and offer you a job. They said that you where the best in the business, and they wanted you as an estimator of building. You couldn't say no. After, only ten years you become rich.

Choice 1 : You are living the dream with a lot of money

Bad grades

Get bad grades.

You are not able to follow enough in class, so exams are harder for you even in easy courses.

Choice 1 : Barely pass your courses.

Good grades

Get good grades.

Your awesome grades motivates you to get even better ones so that entertain your goal to easily get a master.

Choice 1 : Get a scholarship and a master.

Barely passed

Barely pass your courses.

You had to redo some of your classes because you failed them. It took you 5 years to get your master when it's only suppose to take 3 years. Getting a job in this industry it's very hard and it's a busy way of life.

Choice 1 : Struggle to get a job.

Struggle

Struggle to get a job.

You waited 3 years as a manager of a clothes comapny waiting to get a job and you never get one.

Choice 1 : Try again

Scholarship

Get a scholarship and a master.

You were so good in school that they give you the biggest scholarship of the university. You receive 4000$. You get a high ranked job.

Choice 1 : You get an high ranked job

Army

Army.

Since you were a little kid, you always dream of being in the army. There is only two jobs that had always fascinated: being and infantryman or to be a military police.

Choice 1 : Infantryman.

Choice 2 : Military police

Infantry

Infantryman.

When you are an infantryman, you are directly in the action. You learn how to use guns and you train yourself to be physically and mentally prepared for everything.

Choice 1 : Become officer

Choice 2 : Become an elite shooter ( sniper

Officer

Become officer.

When you decide to become an officer there's, of course, a better pay that comes with it but also you can take more decision and responsibility.

Choice 1 : Choose to stay and get an office job.

Choice 2 : Deploy in Iraq.

Office

Choose to stay and get an office job.

You decided that you didn't want to risk your life. This become a safe choice but you will never go back in the field again.

Choice 1 : Stay in an office your entire life

Iraq

Deploy in Iraq.

In Iraq, things where actually going pretty well until you get attacked by terrorist. So, in the battle your commander orders you to stay in line, but you know that if you follow this order, you and everyone with you will die. So, you decide to fight back the terrorist.

Choice 1 : Decide to fight back and survive

MP

Military police.

You are so happy being a military police. You were living the dream. Until you wanted to do more for the world, so you ask your superior to go in a foreing country to give help.

Choice 1 : Ask to go in a foreing country

Génocide

Genocide happening.

In this country, there was a civil war, a genocide happening. You get stuck between ennemy fire and trying to save a small finally you get shot and didn't survive.

Choice 1 : Die saving millions of lives

Pro football

Playing pro football.

You were so good at playing football that some pro football teams offers you contracts to play for them. Montreal and Toronto were the two teams that you found interesting.

Choice 1 : Play for the Allouettes of Montreal

Choice 2 : Play for the Argonautes of Toronto

MTL

Montreal.

They really need you services so they give to you a big contract, but that's the worst team of the circuit.

Choice 1 : Over-train.

Choice 2 : Train normally.

Toronto

Toronto.

Toronto gives you a smaller contract but they are one of the best teams of the circuit.

Choice 1 : Overtrain in Toronto.

Choice 2 : Train a little more than average.

Choice 3 : Train normally in Toronto.

Win n loose

Overtrain in Montreal.

You joined a losing team, so your motivation was so high, your hopes were high too. So, you trained a lot but you didn't get the results you wanted.

Choice 1 : Still loose.

Win n loose

Train normally.

You just put yourself in the same situation of everyone in this team, and that is actually why they always loose, they are all average.

Choice 1 : Still loose.

Win n loose

Still loose.

Being a CFL players don't give you that much money. If you loose, you get even less money so at the age of 27 you decided to quit. But, times are difficult without money.

Choice 1 : You stop playing at 27 and become homeless

Win n loose

Train normally in Toronto.

When you choose to do the minimum, you'll always get the minimum. So, you decide to be as equal as everyone, to become average. Unfortunately, you never get anything from being average.

Choice 1 : Never win a championship.

workout

Train a little more than average.

There's a mentality in football : "train average, be average", but you train above the average this is when you become an example of greatness.

Choice 1 : Become a MVP player and win the Grey Cup.

Work-out

Overtrain in Toronto.

You were so motivated that you were going to the gym every day. You were lifting more and more than the months past.

Choice 1 : Become injured.

Win n loose

Never win a championship.

You just wasted years of your life not getting enough paid, but you had fun and develop friendship that'll last forever.

Choice 1 : You retire from football at 32 with an good football carreer

MVP

Become a MVP player and win the Grey Cup.

This year was your year, your time to shine. And you did shine, you prove everyone what it means to be a football player. You make sure your team win the championship.

Choice 1 : You retire at 35 and become an Hall of famer

Injury

Become injured.

When you don't give time to your body when you are working out, you can get injured easily. While you were doing squats, you started to sense a small pain to your ankle. And all of a sudden, you feel a snap in it the only thing you remember was that you were laying on the ground. The diagnostic came, you had torn your Achilles heel. It was because you didn't take enough rest between training.

Choice 1 : You never recovered from your injury so you get release at the age of 22

The End.