The Engineer

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Felix Cote-gilbert

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Word count: 1537

Choice count: 31

Section count: 21

Image count: 21

Error count: 3

Field Related Analysis:

Law/Paralegal-Technology : 21 matches (answer, arrested, case, close, director, driver, fact, family, highway, House, master, minutes, obligation, parties, price, rescue, robbery, sheriff, Special, street, whole House)

Tourism : 19 matches (Bus, Bus station, Deal, Driver, Food, Highway, Museum, Program, apartment, bit, bus, door, field, highway, master, pass, program, through, wave)

Dance : 18 matches (Back, Beat, Close, Couple, Ending, Front, jump, Kick, Lady, Out, Position, Run, Russian, show, Through, Time, Together, Walk)

Target Structure:

a foot in the door (1 match)

dead-end job (3 matches)

getting sucked up in (1 match)

intern (1 match)

lack of (1 match)

maddening (1 match)

overtime (1 match)

pull off (1 match)

straight A's (1 match)

time management (1 match)

vacant position (1 match)

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The Engineer

Engineer of What?

You just finished your CEGEP and you are heading to the university. You know since you were born that you want to be an engineer, but what is going to be your specialization? It's time to get a foot in the door!

Choice 1 : Electrical Engineer.

Choice 2 : Mechanical Engineer.

Three choices

Electrical Engineer.

The program of the university is really easy and you are getting bored. So, you get a second job to pass the time at a corner store. It turns out to be a dead-end job.

Choice 1 : You quit this dead-end job and start hanging out with friends.

Choice 2 : You continue working at this dead-end job.

corner store

Bad Influence.

You are having a lot of fun with your friends, One night, Larry, one of your good friends, tells you that there is a vacant position for you for a special plan that he have. While he explains the plan to you, you understand that it is a bank robbery. You are a bit refractory at first but du to a lack of money because you quit your second job at the corner store, you consider it.

Choice 1 : Don't do the robbery

Choice 2 : Do the roberry.

robbery

Bad Choice.

Your boss hit by a bus and you are in the obligation of doing overtime. This is maddening because you now don't have enough time to go to your courses and do your homework. You are trying to pass your courses but it's not working. You are getting bad marks at exams and can't deal with that much negativity. You even don't have the time to see your family and friends. The director of the university calls you and tells you that you need to do your semester again and pay the semester at full price again. You are getting sucked up in all this negativity and go through a depression.

Choice 1 : You are deseperate and decide to call you mom.

Choice 2 : You stay alone and don't want to talk to anyone.

depression

The Comeback Kid.

Your mom cheers you up and manage to help you financially. You get back on your feet and manage to get straight A's for every final exam of your courses, This owe you a call of the director to tell you he is sorry and that you made the best comeback of the history oh the university. You finish your Electrical Engineering program and become an electrical engineer.

Choice 1 : Engineer of What?

the comeback kid

This is The End.

You are done. This life has now no more sens to you. The food has now no taste. The water doesn't even hydrate you. You are completely overwhelmed and decide to end this the way it all started, by being someone being hit by a bus. You throw yourself in front of a bus on the highway and die.

Choice 1 : Engineer of What?

The Bus

Money Maker.

Larry's plan is going great. You rob the FMI and get millions of dollars. Now, you have no need of doing these stupid internships and being slaved as an intern in small companies. Larry is telling you that he has another plan in Russia that would give you even more money. You have to choose to finish your program at the university in Electrical Engineering or keep doing robbery with Larry.

Choice 1 : Finish your university program.

Choice 2 : Continue plans with Larry.

AK-47

Master in Electrical Engineering.

You don't have to work anymore while you are at school because you have a lot of money. You go to a lot of parties and don't have any problem on time management because you don't have a job and can study every day.You pull off A's at all of your exams and finish your program easily, but you continue the university and do a master.

Choice 1 : Engineer of What?

Electric system

Prison.

Larry's plan in Russia didn't go very well. In fact, it was a total mess. He planned to rob a museum in Moscow but the police interfered and everybody got arrested. Canada tried to repatriate you, but Russia didn't want to even negotiate. So, you are stocked in Russian Prison and get beat up every day by Russian.

Choice 1 : Engineer of What?

Prison

The Girl.

You took this specialization because your older brother is in the same one. So, your brother is there to help you, you come handy. You go at your brother's apartment to ask him some questions about the only electromagnetic wave, the light. You knock at the door. A beautiful girl with brown hair answer the door. It's your brother's roommate, he never talked to you about her. Your brother is late so you don't know if you have to study or just talked to the beautiful girl.

Choice 1 : Talk to her.

Choice 2 : Start studying.

the girl

The Lady.

You introduce yourself to her. Her name is Penelope, you find it being a beautiful name. Your brother is not arriving, you keep digging in the conversation and find out that she want to be a nutritionist. You are realizing that she has big dreams, she wants to have kids and own her business. Maybe, she is not a girl but more of a lady. You want to know more about her.

Choice 1 : You ask her out on a date.

The Lady

Focus on School.

You start your homework and your brother finally arrives. He answers your question and you are ready for your first exam.

Choice 1 : You decide to stay with your brother in case you have new questions.

Choice 2 : You go at your house to sleep.

book

The Date.

You are eating a good steak but would much rater eat her. She is looking at you like a hungry lion. She asks you if you want to finish the night at her girlfriend's home.

Choice 1 : You accept to go at her girlfriend's house.

Choice 2 : You finish the date and end the night at your home without her.

Steak

Girlfriend's House.

As soon as you get in her girlfriend's house, Penelope and her girlfriend jump on you and rip your clothes. You understand nothing, but when they tell you they want to sleep with you, you understand.

Choice 1 : You run out of there.

Choice 2 : You stay there and make love with them.

The House

It was supposed to be a good ending...

You call Penelope the day after the date. You become a couple and finish your university together. You decided to adopt a kid from Africa, you call him Tyson. One night, Tyson wake up and go down stairs near the fireplace. Tyson takes a log on fire from the fire and throw it on the ground. The whole house gets on fire and you are all burned alive.

Choice 1 : Engineer of What?

The House

Hard for Manage.

You end up with two girlfriends, Penelope and Carmen, Penelope her girlfriend. They are really taking a lot of your time. You are wondering why you choose to have two girlfriends. They are always distracting you so you can't study for your first physic university exam. Penelope and Carmen have the keys of your apartment, and they decide to show up the night just before your exam. You get hangry at them and leave you house in rage. You run to the soccer field to kick some balls, but you get hit by a taxi on the way. The doctor is trying his best to rescue you but you die.

Choice 1 : Engineer of What?

The girls

Close One.

You escaped from Penelope and Carmen, Penelope her girlfriend. They kept harassing you for weeks but now they stopped and you can focus on your university program. You finish your program and get your diploma. You become a great electrical engineer and got promoted to have built the Manic 5, the biggest electrical dam. Sadly, you are still alone for years now, you will finish your life without a wife and kids.

Choice 1 : Engineer of What?

Too late.

You leave your brother's house around 1 a.m. to take the bus to your house. You are really exhausted, you go across the street to reach the bus station, but a truck hit you.

Choice 1 : You get up and hit the driver.

Choice 2 : You go to the hospital.

The Night

The, One.

You get a good night of sleep and grab a hot cup of coffee before your exam. The exam begin and you literally destroy it. No question stands on your way, you finish the exam in 45 minutes. You scored so high that the director of the university asks you to become a professor. You accept and become the only professor of electrical engineering at 22 years old.

Choice 1 : Engineer of What?

Big Mistake.

The guy you hit is the sheriff. You go in jail for twenty years.

Choice 1 : Engineer of What?

The Sheriff

Hospital.

A radiologist take radiography of yours lower back. When the truck hit you, it broke your spine, you won't be able to walk again.

Choice 1 : Engineer of What?

Hospital