Life as an Indecisive Student.

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Life as an Indecisive Student.

Start at the beginning.

You are in your final year in high school and you don't know what to do with your future. You know that you love helping others, especially kids. You once thought about going to medical school to become a pediatrician or becoming a teacher in elementary school. You also thought about travelling for a year before making a decision because you like the idea of enjoying your youth before it is too late.

Choice 1 : You are going in the Health Science program in College de Maisonneuve.

Choice 2 : You are going in the Social Science program in the world profile in College de Maisonneuve.

Choice 3 : You are taking a gap year and travel the world alone.

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You are going in the Health Science program in College de Maisonneuve.

You realize that you do not have the requisites required to enter the Health Science program.

Choice 1 : You are doing the prerequisites courses by entering a Springboard to a DCS program in College de Maisonneuve.

Choice 2 : You drop out and decide to find a full-time job.

A woman studying science.

You are going in the Social Science program in the world profile in College de Maisonneuve.

Your first year turns out to be great ; you make a lot of friends, you have good grades, you found a club that interests you, so much is happening! The semesters passed by so quickly that you don't even realize you have to make a choice for university soon. You want to go in an Education program but your friends insist that you follow them in a Political Science program.

Choice 1 : You decline their offer and decide to stick to your plan to become an elementary school teacher.

Choice 2 : You follow them and hope for the best.

Picture reprensenting Social Science.

You are taking a gap year and travel the world alone.

You want to start your journey by exploring Asian countries. You realize you do not have enough saved in your bank account to travel alone everywhere in the world. You hesitate between bringing someone with you to help you financially or just go with the flow.

Choice 1 : You bring someone with you to help you with money.

Choice 2 : You decide to go even though you are not sure if you have enough money to follow your plan.

Central Asia.

You are doing the prerequisites courses by entering a Springboard to a DCS program in College de Maisonneuve.

It turns out that the classes are way more difficult than you thought because you always sucked at maths, but you cannot tell your family because they told you that it would not work and you don't want them to be right. You end up leaving the country and living off a salary of a tourist entertainer in Cuba. Five years later, your family finds you and wants to reconnect with you.

Choice 1 : You decide to talk to them.

Choice 2 : You don't care about them and you decide to escape to another country.

Cuba

You drop out and decide to find a full-time job.

You find yourself in a dead-end job in a supermarket as a cashier. On your first day, there is a robbery and the burglar wants all the cash that is in your cash so you give it to him. As he leaves, he decides to shoot you because you are sobbing uncontrollably and it is annoying. As you are slowly dying, you think about how you should have continued your studies.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Icons representing a robbery

You decide to talk to them.

They tell you that they are happy to see you again, even though they look a little bit annoyed. They tell you they have something to announce to you but at the same time, your boss yells at you to come back on stage to entertain lunchtime for the tourists.

Choice 1 : You stay with your parents to hear their announcement.

Choice 2 : You tell your parents you never want to see them again and you go back on stage to perform a salsa dance battle with the tourists.

Group dancing.

You don't care about them and you decide to escape to another country.

You find yourself in Russia with a new identity and you have been mistaken for a burglar that has been hiding for years. Police lock you up, thinking they found the criminal they have been looking for all these years and you cannot help yourself because you don't speak Russian. You spend the rest of your life in a maximum facility jail in the middle of nowhere in Russia.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Russian army

You stay with your parents to hear their announcement.

After an awkward silence, your mom is the one to break the news. "We wanted to tell you that your sister is becoming a surgeon and your brother is doing an internship to become a teacher." Your first reaction is to laugh. You cannot believe that your siblings are individually living the life that you could have had if you had stayed in school after graduating from high school. You are starting to realize that you are the biggest disappointment in your family. The more you think about it, the more you laugh hysterically. Suddenly, you stop breathing and you pass out. You died of laughing at your own embarrassment.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

A man graduating.

You tell your parents you never want to see them again and you go back on stage to perform a salsa dance battle with the tourists.

As you are dancing with one of the tourists of the hotel, Simon Cowell notices you and tells you how much of a great dancer you are. He invites you to his house and could eventually invite you to his show "The X Factor". You hesitate.

Choice 1 : You say yes to his invitation ; you know, you only live once.

Choice 2 : You decline his invitation and decide to stay in Cuba.

Simon Cowell

You say yes to his invitation ; you know, you only live once.

After performing on the show and giving the best performance of your life, your audition tape gets leak on the Internet and everyone is watching your video. You are becoming the biggest meme ever because everyone thinks you are so bad at dancing. You are miserable.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

The X Factor judges

You decline his invitation and decide to stay in Cuba.

During the night, you hear someone knock at your door. It is Cowell's bodyguard, and he does not look happy. Before hitting you right in the face, he tells you that you should never say no to the Big Boss. You pass out and die of a brain bleed in your hotel room as the song "Hotel Room Service" from Pitbull starts playing out of nowhere.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

The singer Pitbull.

You bring someone with you to help you with money.

The only person willing to travel with you is your mom. As you arrive at the airport, she constantly yells at you about what you could have forgotten as if you have eaten before entering the plane, if you went to the bathroom because it is going to be a long ride, if you have your plane tickets with you, etc. You are already going crazy and you did not even enter the plane yet. As you are walking toward your gate, you have the idea of running to a random gate to escape from your mom.

Choice 1 : You run to the random gate, leaving your mom alone in the airport.

Choice 2 : You decide to stay with your mom as she is still yelling at you.

Airport

You decide to go even though you are not sure if you have enough money to follow your plan.

You arrive in Thailand and are not able to pay for your hotel room for the whole trip. You find yourself in the middle of a road, slowly dying of dehydration. You should have listened to your parents.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Cartoon with no money

You run to the random gate, leaving your mom alone in the airport.

As you arrive on the plane with a mystery destination, you choose to sit next to a man, and he starts talking to you. The two of you start hitting it off really well. After what seemed like 2 seconds, the plane lands and you have no idea where to go. The man sitting next to you tells you to follow him.

Choice 1 : You follow him.

Choice 2 : You run away from him.

Plane

You decide to stay with your mom as she is still yelling at you.

You are so tired of her that you decide to hide on the plane's bathroom. Suddenly, the plane gets hit by something and it crashes on a random island. You are the only one who survived thanks to the bathroom. You decide to walk further on the island and you find yourself face to face with a tribe. They mistake you for the chief's missed daughter, and they cherish you until the day you die.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Random island

You follow him.

As you exit the plane, a limousine is waiting for you. On the road toward the man's house, he tells you that he fell deeply in love with you on the plane and wants you to be his girlfriend. At the same time, you notice his big and shiny Rolex watch so you come to the conclusion that he is rich. You say yes, even though you feel a little bit biased by his money, and he is so happy that he gives you a $1,000,000 check right away. You spend the rest of your life in big mansions all around the world sipping mimosas. You still don't know what he does as a business, but you don't really care. You are living the superstar life!

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Cartoon with lots of money

You run away from him.

As you run away from him, you realize you still don't know where you are and you decide to keep running until you see a road sign to help you. A month later, you are still running every day toward nowhere because you have nothing else to do. Everyone in the country (you found out you were in Jamaica a week ago) starts calling you the "Jamaican Forest Gump" and you kind of like it. You become super popular and, you are best friends with Usain Bolt. You still don't know what happened to your mom.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Woman running

You decline their offer and decide to stick to your plan to become an elementary school teacher.

You start university optimistically, but you are really nervous at the same time. However, the more you get into it, the more you realize teaching is your purpose in life. You also take many classes that are not related to your program to gain extra credits, which is also good for your curriculum and your personal knowledge. A few years pass by and you are now looking to apply for some internships and you hesitate between going back to your middle school or going teaching in a new school.

Choice 1 : You go to your old school, which is a public school.

Choice 2 : You go to the new school, which is a private school.

University class

You follow them and hope for the best.

You are content with your choice ; you are still the most brilliant one in your group and all of your teachers admire you. Your time management asset really came in handy in university. Because of the jealousy they felt toward you, you lost all of your friends ; you are completely alone. You decide to do a master degree in Political Science to spend the time because you have no idea what to do. After that, you decide to apply for a master degree in Psychology. You spend the rest of your life trying to figure out your dream job while having about 30 master degrees in different fields of study.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Master degree

You go to your old school, which is a public school.

As you set foot in the school, everyone recognizes you and is so excited to see you. You are happy and talk about what is going on in your life now as an adult. At first, they seem to still see you as the child you were back in the days, but you don't mind but the more you learn the rope, the more you realize no one takes you seriously here, which is really maddening. You try to impose yourself in some extracurricular activities to be a part of the school, but they tell you that you are just an intern and you don't have to do that. You hesitate between flipping them off or to stay calm.

Choice 1 : You flip them off ; they are starting to overwhelm you and you don't like it.

Choice 2 : You stay calm ; you will try to make them understand that you are becoming as good as a teacher as them.

Group of teachers

You go to the new school, which is a private school.

Everyone, including the students, bully you because you don't seem rich enough to be working here. Some colleagues even say that they are skeptical about your ability to teach. You start to doubt yourself and your skills ; are you a good teacher or just a big joke?

Choice 1 : You come to the conclusion that you are in fact a big joke and you do not have what it takes to be a teacher.

Choice 2 : You come to the conclusion that you are an excellent teacher and will continue to teach there.

Private school

You flip them off ; they are starting to overwhelm you and you don't like it.

Your action caused a big drama in the school. Teachers and kids are now all against you and they kick you out of the school. You are now no longer authorized in the district around the school.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Middle finger

You stay calm ; you will try to make them understand that you are becoming as good as a teacher as them.

To show them that you are qualified for this job, you start creating these super organized and fun lesson plans with educational games while prioritizing outdoor lectures to increase the attention span in students. They are so in awe seeing how much you care and are thorough to your future career that they all want the director to hire you as a substitute teacher. The director accepts, but wants to see you teach a real class alone before giving you a position. You are nervous and starting to hesitate.

Choice 1 : You decide to teach a class in front of him to let him see how great of a teacher you are.

Choice 2 : You refuse the idea ; you are too stressed to teach in front of him.

Outdoor class

You decide to teach a class in front of him to let him see how great of a teacher you are.

Everything went well ; the director tells you that you have the pedagogy and the critical thinking required to teach in his school, so he decides to give you a substitute position well-deserved. You are happy and so are your former teachers, newly colleagues.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Happy emoticon

You refuse the idea ; you are too stressed to teach in front of him.

He tells you that he cannot give you a teaching position in the school if you are feeling uncomfortable teaching in front of him, but he can give you a janitor job for the moment if you want. He tells you that when you are going to be ready, you can re-apply for a teacher's job, and he will help you. You accept and are still happy to be able to be surrounded by kids.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Janitor icon

You come to the conclusion that you are an excellent teacher and will continue to teach there.

Even though the first weeks are hard and no one is really welcoming with you, you try to impose yourself to the class. You start to become close with a kid with dyslexia and you volunteer to tutor him after school in mathematics because he is struggling. The weeks pass by and you realize the director of the school is the mother of the dyslexic student. She is so grateful with the work you have done with her son that she offers you a substitute teacher position to substitute a teacher who is going on a leave of absence. You want to accept, but you don't know if you want to work in this toxic environment.

Choice 1 : You accept the offer.

Choice 2 : You decline the offer.

Man teaching maths

You come to the conclusion that you are in fact a big joke and you do not have what it takes to be a teacher.

You cry yourself to death in your car in the parking lot of the school and everyone laughs at you at your funerals.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Sad face

You accept the offer.

You are thriving and loving your new job. Even though you are still learning as you work, you try to teach with the applied academics' method where you take situations in the real world to explain certain subjects, such as science, and it is working really well with your students. You also gain enough income to pay your university tuition and have access to a lot of benefits, which is really great! You are really happy and you feel fulfill.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Happy face

You decline the offer.

The director of the school is really mad ; she is not used to being said no. The next day, she constantly tries to hinder you when you try to talk and play to students on the playground. She even tells you she is going to be a threat up until the end of your internship in the school. You are so scarred of her that you quit the school and never teach again in fear of having a boss like her.

Choice 1 : Start at the beginning.

Scary teacher