Rebecca walked quickly through the busy streets of New York City to the nearest library. The loud sounds of taxi horns blaring, people talking on the phone filled her ears, but all she could think about was finishing her college application paper for the University of New York.
Rebecca was stressed because she only had 2 days until she had to submit her application and she was banking on only applying to NYU and no other universities. The snow was falling fast onto the New York streets, as the sun was setting and Rebecca started running to the library doors. She entered the warm building and was welcomed with the scent of a woody sage fragrance as she found the nearest computer to sit down at. Rebecca took a sip of her Peppermint Mocha coffee as she knew she had a long night ahead of her. She picked up the pair of glasses next to the computer, logged in, and all of her documents popped up through her glasses.
Rebecca’s head started to fill with ideas as she could see all of her personalized items pop up through the smart glasses. This recent invention came with the Minitel terminals throughout the US. Rebecca read online that the recent expansion of Minitel came from France and quickly established itself in the US. With the addition of smart glasses, each Minitel terminal came with its own set of Smart Glasses which allowed people to access their personal items once they logged into the internet. The glasses allowed people to not have to save their documents and private work on the terminals, so they could avoid getting hacked. The smart glasses also offered different ideas once they saw the work people were doing. It was a piece of technology which expanded ideas, provided grammatical corrections, and saved work frequently in case the terminal shut down. Rebecca loved the smart glasses because it allowed her to be bombarded with documents and ideas she had all written herself.
Rebecca started typing rapidly on the terminal while the smart glasses started to provide her with more elaborate ideas that she was able to see. As hours went by, the smart glasses stayed fully charged as Rebecca kept working. With another sip of her coffee, Rebecca had reached a writer’s block. She was only into the first paragraph of her college application when she started frantically reaching for ideas off of her smart glasses. The hours were counting down until Rebecca had to turn in her application.
Rebecca said, “I am never going to get in, I am just not good enough.” With the smart glasses resting on her eyes and nose, tears started streaming down her face. Rebecca felt like a failure. Her smart glasses became foggy and all of her information slowly started slipping her mind. She took a couple breaths and tried to calm herself down. Her sweaty hands took the smart glasses off from her head as she headed to the bathroom to clean up.
Once she returned to her terminal, she put back on the smart glasses as the display pierced through her eyes. She had a sense of urgency to finish her college application. Rebecca started typing as her smart glasses started to provide her with a tremendous amount of ideas and corrections she could apply to her application.
Two more grueling hours pass by and a 783 word count pops up on Rebecca’s smart glasses. As she touches the lens of her glasses, they present a lengthy amount of corrections Rebecca has to apply to her paper, but they also illustrate a document that ties back to Rebecca’s freshman year when Rebecca was journaling about her family troubles. Rebecca clicks on the document through her smart glasses and it pops up on the Minitel terminal. As she reads through the painful divorce between her mom and dad, she suddenly gains a new idea for her college application.
With ideas swirling in her head, she looks out the window to see the snow rapidly falling onto the ground.
She remembers the painful night which occurred almost three years ago. She remembers the snow rapidly falling onto the ground, and remembers the high pitched screaming coming from her mom and dad as she was sitting in her room. All of the memories start flooding into her head as Rebecca walks back to the Minitel and erases her whole essay, just to start over again.
Rebecca quickly thanks the smart glasses for the tremendous idea and starts typing once again. Another two hours pass by once Rebecca starts to yawn. She sees how dark and cold it is outside and she decides that it is time to go home. With hours approaching until her application is due, she takes a deep breath and takes off her glasses. Knowing that everything will save, Rebecca puts on her beanie and scratchy scarf and heads for the door.
The next morning, the snow has stopped falling and Rebecca wakes up to the sun piercing through her window. “Today” she says. Today is the day her application is due. She quickly puts on her warm clothes and rushes downstairs. Her mom is downstairs and asks her, “How is your application going?
Rebecca replies with, “It’s okay, I need to go finish it.” After the divorce, Rebecca lost her close relationship with her mom and now it has become the root of her college application paper which her mom does not know about. Rebecca rushes through the busy streets of New York City to pick up her coffee and head to a different library.
She reaches a desk with a Minitel terminal and sits down to log into the computer. As she puts on her Smart Glasses, she sees her current progress on the college application pop up onto her computer. The word count on her smart glasses pops up as 964 words. It is time for Rebecca to finish her last paragraph and review her college application before she submits it. Feeling very emotional, Rebecca types her last word as she finishes her application.
She is feeling a mix of emotions about her paper. She is nervous to submit it, emotional about how the relationship with her mom has broken, and happy that she finished the application.
The Smart Glasses help her review her paper and offer any last ideas before she submits it. After thirty minutes of reviewing have gone by, Rebecca sees the bright orange “SUBMIT” button pop up onto her smart glasses and onto her computer. She takes a second before she presses the button, takes a deep breath, and submits it. Once she does, the document saves on her smart glasses and she takes them off. With this invention, she knows that the smart glasses helped her complete this assignment and submit her best application for NYU.
A couple months go by and a letter in the mail comes from NYU admissions.
Rebecca had been waiting anxiously for this letter, but it came so soon and Rebecca was not ready to open it. She treks into her mom’s house and immediately opens the letter. It reads… “Congratulations Rebecca, You have been accepted into NYU.” Rebecca was ecstatic and so was her mom. They jumped up and down in the kitchen crying tears of joy. Once Rebecca was over her excitement, she wanted to share her paper with her mom.
Her mom and Rebecca walk to the nearest library where Rebecca puts the smart glasses on her mom and pulls up the document with Rebecca’s application paper for her mom to read. Rebecca leaves the library and waits for her mom to arrive home. Three hours go by and Rebecca starts to hear the keys jingle at the door as it becomes unlocked. Her mom walks in with tears streaming down her face as Rebecca runs to give her a hug. Their relationship had changed all because of the smart glasses idea that was given to Rebecca.
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