University Season 4

Sim State Dormitory
Brennan Mimoza: Male YA| Knowledge | Gemini | Become Space Pirate | Major: Literature
Frankie Mimoza: Male YA | Fortune | Scorpio | Become Criminal Mastermind | Major: Mathematics
Marvin Mimoza: Male YA | Knowledge | Leo | Become Educational Minister | Major: Biology
Tosha Pratt: Female YA | Knowledge | Virgo | Become World Class Ballet Dancer | Major: Drama
Allegra Gorey: Female YA | Knowledge | Pisces | Become Space Pirate | Major: Literature

Hunter Gray: Male YA | Knowledge | Pisces | Become Chief of Staff | Major: Biology

Last Time: Eugene and Jaiden graduated with honors and moved back to the hood to start their family. Arnav made it into the secret society, as did Marvin Mimoza, Brennan, Hunter, Frankie, Tosha, and Allegra in the dorms.  The kids skilled, studied, gained hobby points, and then Arnav and Opal got engaged. The last few members of the dorms who weren't already in the Greek House made it in. We noticed a fun phenomenon with our dorm residents where boys sit on the floor to do homework and girls sit in the cafeteria.

We are back at university for the first university update of this round. If you remember we split university into 2 sections, playing a full year each visit. I was thinking of starting with the Greek House, however, in the interest of not jumping back and forth in the blog like I did while playing we are going to start in the dorms. Here we have 6 kids, which will drop to four once two of them move to the Greek House after the first semester.

We begin with a couple of days in progress.  Marvin and Allegra are very much in love and were a 2-bolt couple when they met, but are now down to 1-bolt.  Since her turn-ons are skill-based it's likely due to that and will be back to 2-bolts later, or it will stay as 1 and they will be happy none the less. Hunter and Frankie are also very much in love now and make a very handsome couple.

After dates are finished it is time to skill.  I was a bit more of a slave driver than I tend to be, and even reading the past university entry I mention I was fairly hands-off, but not so this round.  So Frankie and Hunter sit down and start working on skills.

On the other loveseat in this small little study room on the upper floor of the dorm, we see two other students are also studying hard. Allegra and Marvin also finished up their date and began to study as well.  We currently are having them work on whatever their lowest skills are.

The next day works much the same, only now the dormies appear to be getting in on the study action.  One thing I have noticed and that drives me a little crazy is, I put their helmets on their respective desks in their rooms.  When they take them off, however, most walk downstairs into the lower floor study area to put them on the desks down there. 

Not to worry, even though we haven't seen her yet, Tosha is still here and doing well and gets into the skilling spirt as well.  In fact, while she was busy skilling the coach came in and yelled at her to work out.  After she finishes studying I let her workout for a bit, but then have her stop after she gets one body skill point.

Brennan loves to play chess and throws the wish to do it all the time.  So if I don't catch him and direct him elsewhere he will almost always sneak away to the chess table. Due to that fact, he as managed to fully max out his logic skills.

Allegra really needed to work on her body skill, and since she had not learned physiology yet we had her study that.  I believe she also threw a wish for it, but I can't remember if it was her, or someone else this round. Still, it was completed and now body skills will be much faster for Allegra to get.

The garden is also still thriving and we have made some minor adjustments to it to allow for all the different types of veggies we need for the most important juices for college. So to that end, we have a tomato, cucumber, pepper, and pole bean plant, then 2 strawberry plants and the rest are eggplants. Today Brennan and Tosha were available to work on the garden.

This ended the first semester for the group and Allegra and Marvin moved to the greek house, leaving Tosha, Brennan, Hunter, and Frankie here in the dorm until additional students graduate from the Greek House. So far, the boys all have 4.0's, but Tosha and Allegra, for some reason, have dropped below a 4.0, and while I don't remember them having anything but A+'s this whole time we will have to mark them off the ability to get honors.

Anyway, continuing with the dorm we have additional skilling.  I swear these kids did more than skill, in fact, the dorm has been decked out with all hobby benches, and the kids started working on hobby plaques for a little while.  Still, we did additional skilling.

The garden also continues to grow and be tended to as well. Additionally, these kids are working on their relationships with other students and each other, trying to reach that Big Sim on Campus title, but so far none of them have enough quite yet.

That brings us to the end of the dorms for this year.  While it wasn't the most exciting update, a lot of skilling, the kids are doing really well in school and continue to get their A's. Now we move onto the Greek House.

Var-Oresha-Fruhm Greek House
Arnav Morpheus: Male YA | Popularity | Aquarius | Become Celebrity Chef | Major: Art
Opal Raymond: Female YA | Fortune | Capricorn | Become Criminal Mastermind | Major: Mathematics
Zaria Yerazig: Female YA | Fortune | Virgo | Become The Law | Major: Political Science
Ash Shaikh: Male YA | Fortune | Gemini | Become Chief of Staff | Major: Physics

We will start with the Greek House before Allegra and Marin moved in. Here we were also a bit slave driver-ish, and we'll see how many more pictures of skilling we can fit into this update. However, we start with Ash working on his homework, which apparently has him a bit stumped.

While Ash works on his homework Arnav and Opal are told to work on their respective skills.  Again, we are plopping them down to work on their lowest skill and pretty much leave them until it's either time to go to class, or they have a need that gets too low, or they have just done it for hours and I decide to give them a break.

Zaria loves science and it is her OTH, so when given the chance she looks out the telescope.  Since this also builds her logic level we let her. The Greek House's garden can be seen behind her and is doing really well.

In fact, speaking of the garden, Zaria and Arnav appear to be the ones tasked with working in the garden the next morning.  Both of them are up to a gold gardening badge and make the plants very happy.

Zaria also loves nature.  She may be a science girl by heart but after all the time in the garden, she also has an interest in nature.  Today she works on catching some bugs to put on her bug board. Zariah, to me, is one of the prettiest sims I've ever made in CAS.  I cannot wait to see her genes passed.

This has turned a bit into a Zaria update, but we will see the others again soon, I promise.  In the meantime, Zaria works on her logic and science plaque again by staring out into the heavens.

So, moving on, as I said I would, we visit Arnav, who is also working on a hobby plaque.  The Greek House has always been outfitted with most hobby benches, the only one missing, I believe, being the robotics bench. It's not that we don't want that one, but the Greek House isn't rolling in money yet, so we held off on that one for the time being.  Still, Arnav tries his hand a toy making, and while he doesn't quite reach that bronze badge yet, with more time he will.

Ash, the sports lover he always has been, wants to play soccer most days.  That net has been the best investment for him and he wishes for it near daily. Late in the evening, he is playing, by himself, I might add, and cheers for himself when making his goals. He looks so happy in this picture.

Zaria remembers her great aunt sewing at home, and so when the sewing machine is purchased she quickly rolls wishes for it.  It does not take her long to reach a bronze badge, having started the process at home.  She starts making curtains to hand in the rooms later. It is at this moment, I believe when Zaria gets up from the sewing machine and rolls a wish to purchase a sewing machine. Silly sims, you just got up from one, and you have one at home.  I promise, Zaria, you do not need a sewing machine for every room.

Ash is trying his hand at flower arranging.  I would love to start getting some snapdragons around the hood, but so far Ash hasn't reached a bronze yet, but this is truly closer to what the dorms looked like, lots of skilling, but also lots of hobby work. :)

Sticking with Ash, it was his turn to work on the garden. He's only at a silver badge in gardening and can use the "practice" in case we give him and Zaria a garden when we get home. It looks like the pole beans were ready to be picked.

It was time to write term papers, but then we realize that the computers were broken.  Luckily Arnav and Zaria are pretty high in mechanical so we decide to give them the change to fix them.  Arnav takes a couple of tries, but Zaria finishes hers on the first go and then they are both able to get term papers done.

Thus ends the 1st half of the year and we now see Allegra and Marvin moving into the extra bedroom that has been empty since Jaiden and Eugene graduated.

With it being a new semester the students are back to skilling all the time.  This time Zaria and Allegra are the ones sitting on the couch with their helmets hitting the books. A lot of eggplant juice is served regularly as well. Allegra was shocked by whatever it was she was learning.

Someone wants to throw a toga party, and the kids needed to gain some relationship points with each other, so we threw a party and then got as many as possible hanging out.  Why they decided to do it on this weird corner of the kitchen I don't know, but that's sims for you.

The Myshuno game hasn't gotten near the use that it has in the past during this update, but it is still here and great for parties.  The students enjoy it and it gives some good friendship points as well.

After multiple days pass we notice the Allegra has two-bolts of attraction with Ash now. Obviously, we are not messing up Ash and Zaria as we love them together, but Ash has been studying the thing Allegra likes, so I need to work on Marvin's points. However the friendship between that couple and Allegra is not strong, so they play kicky bag for a bit.

Opal is here, and here is a picture to prove it.  She is doing well in school and also spends time skilling. Here she is serving up a platter of eggplant juice, which lets each of the kids get a glass and a free skill point.

Martin is actually still here as well. I know we haven't seen him since the move-in picture, but he is here and working on his creativity.  I find this particular creative object to be one of the better ones.  It doesn't have quite the draw the other instruments have, and it doesn't "run out" like the easel when the painting is complete.

Arnav has been practicing his fishing and even though I missed it, he now has a bronze medal in fishing.

Ash manages to earn money somehow, my guess is it was through the completion of his semester of school, but I'm not 100% sure.  Still, he's happy to have earned the money.

Opal shows her face again and is working very hard on pottery.  She has not yet reached a medal of any kind, but she is on her way.

Kicky ball and hanging out are very popular past times to try and reach higher friendship levels across all of these students. Opal has managed to get BSOC this year as did both Zaria and Ash. Allegra also has joined the ranks of this title, and Marvin is very very close.  I believe he needs 1 more friend.

 We end this update with another look of skilling kids in the Greek House.  During the next university update, which will happen after we finish the second Mimoza house and the new house with Jaiden and Eugene, we will have 4 sims graduating and everyone else moving into the Greek House again.

RUNNING SCORE: 
Previous Points: +80
Music and Dance Plaque (Marvin): +1
BSOC (Opal, Zaria, Ash, Allegra) +4
TOI (Opal, Zaria, Ash) +3
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NEW SCORE: +88
(This score doesn't include any of the finishing scores so we can keep a running tab.)

University Season 3.5

Var-Oresha-Fruhm Greek House
Eugene Morpheus: Male YA | Family | Pisces | Marry off 6 Kids
Jaiden Phillppine: Female YA | Family | Aquarius | Raise 20 Puppies or Kittens
Arnav Morpheus: Male YA | Popularity | Aquarius | Become Celebrity Chef
Opal Raymond: Female YA | Fortune | Capricorn | Become Criminal Mastermind
Zaria Yerazig: Female YA | Fortune | Virgo | Become The Law
Ash Shaikh: Male YA | Fortune | Gemini | Become Chief of Staff

Last Time: A new batch of students showed up to university, initially starting in dorms we joined Arnav, Opal, and Zaria.  They joined the Greek House and moved there after their first semester was over.  Zaria met Ash and after he eventually was able to join the Greek House he also moved in.  Meanwhile, in the dorms, the 3 Mimoza brothers, Frankie, Brennan, and Marvin all found love interests, Tosha, Allegra, and Hunter, and they all moved into the Sim State Dorms together.  Eugene got a hobby plaque, Jaiden made BSOC and the students all did well in school.

We have reached the final "house" for this round in coming back to uni for the second half.  We will start in the Greek House where we have two who will be graduating, Eugene and Jaiden.  The kids spend lots of time on the phone trying to make friends.  You can see the coach in the background wanting Arnav to work out.

After working out Arnav makes best friend with his brother's intended, Jaiden.  We also see one of the Mimoza triplets, Marvin, is visiting the Greek House. He actually managed to join the house during the last trip to uni.

The students are somewhat left to their own devices, although I do direct a fair amount when it comes to talking on the phone and keeping up with school work.  However, when left alone, they frequently will sit down to meals in at least a partial group, or work on their individual hobbies.

Arnav becomes another inductee into the Secret Society on campus.  First, they came late at night and put him into a limo and then he got his jacket.  He did not stay around very long before heading home.

Back at the house Eugene and Jaiden spend a lot of time together doing romantic type actions.  They are very much in love.  Marvin Mimoza is over at the house once again and is busy studying.

Ash is very interested in sports and spends a fair amount of time at the net we put into the front yard.  He hasn't gained enough to get a plaque yet, but he is well on his way to getting it.

The garden is still at the house, and all of the students take turns taking care of it.  It is Jaiden's turn this time and she diligently weeds all of the plants.

The house is always very busy with students and other kids in and out.  Meal times are very popular, and with all of the produce the students have stocked, the food they make is always top notch and sparkly.

Someone, I believe it was Ash, was invited to an outing and so we went.  It turned out ok, and while there was so fun had it didn't do much to assist Ash in gaining additional friends.

Back at home, however, dating sprees can be seen frequently.  It's easy to keep your mood up in college when you have a significant other to date through it.  Marvin is, again, over at the house.  I find it funny all these pictures show Martin when his brother Brennan was there more often.

The students do not all have solid relationships and so I actually direct some hangout sessions to take place to try and help solidify their friendships.  We are also working towards those hobby plaques as well.

Even with all the produce, the students often times bring pizza back from campus.  This has to be one of the best features, in my opinion, of the greek houses.  The free food is great, and there are often 2 or 3 pizza boxes sitting around the house.

Late one afternoon I spied the gypsy lady sneaking into the backyard of the house. I do not believe I have ever seen her on a university lot and was somewhat surprised that she left a lamp.  It continued to sit on the back porch for now.

I was a little concerned about Ash.  He hopped on the bike and continued to pedal away.  He had a wish to get fit, and he was about as unfit as a sim can be.  In a single session, he built his fitness all the way up to fully fit. If only it was that easy in real life.

The kids are still working on friendships with each other and the other students in the university.  Some are grown up to best friends, and others we are just working on keeping up.  I did discover I had something affecting my relationships, they were dropping like 3 times a day, one right after the other.  So even if I leveled a relationship up into the 80's or 90's, the next day it would plummet into the 60's or 50's.  I was able to determine it had something to do with a sync timer that was in the downloads folder.  I removed it and the issue seemed to stop.

It is a greek house so, of course, toga parties are thrown from time to time and the students enjoy meeting so many other kids.  These parties are great for the relationships.

Do not think it is all fun and games, Arnav and Eugene sit down and work on their term papers.  I do not always have students write term papers, but when they get up to junior/senior year it is much easier to get the A+ if they are written.

Late one-night multiple students were up tending to the garden and decided to start fishing.  I had almost forgotten that this little pond was back here, so once a handful of fish was caught they moved on to other things.

Zaria and Ash are also very romantic together and autonomously went and looked at the clouds together.  I think it's cute they picked a spot right near Ash's net.

The Myshuno, or however that is spelled, game still gets a TON of use.  I love this item on greek house lots.  It is awesome for fun and a big draw during parties.  So many students participate.  This particular party it appears Hunter and a couple of the Mimoza brothers were in attendance.

As we were drawing to the end of this play session in the Greek House Arnav decided he wanted to go out with Opal.  They had gotten all dressed up, but then stayed in their outerwear the entire dinner. After a few mishaps, where they kept getting up and out of their chairs and sitting back down, Arnav pulls out a little black box and passes it over to Opal. She, of course, accepts.

Once everyone is back home it is time for more relationship building and more parties.  Allegra Gorey is over this time, she is one of the Mimoza brother's intended.  We also get a couple of students who are now able to visit the music hobby lot.

 Finally, it is time for Eugene to head back home.  He has successfully graduated Suma Cum Laude and has achieved just about everything possible in his time here.  His family is all invited over and some of his friends as well. He makes sure to spend time with each guest before taking his final picture with his brother, Arnav.

Right after Eugene graduates Jaiden also graduates and holds a party of her own.  She doesn't have any family since she was a townie before, so instead, she invites a lot of friends over.  She looks very smart in her cap and gown and the party is a big success.

Sim State Dormitory
Brennan Mimoza: Male YA| Knowledge | Gemini | Become Space Pirate
Frankie Mimoza: Male YA | Fortune | Scorpio | Become Criminal Mastermind

Marvin Mimoza: Male YA | Knowledge | Leo | Become Educational Minister
Tosha Pratt: Female YA | Knowledge | Virgo | Become World Class Ballet Dancer
Allegra Gorey: Female YA | Knowledge | Pisces | Become Space Pirate
Hunter Gray: Male YA | Knowledge | Pisces | Become Chief of Staff

Back in the dorms, we see two of the Mimoza brother's chatting away to friends.  None of these sims have many friends and it will take a lot of work to get them up into the BSOC range.

However, we also need to get everyone into the Greek House, so here we see Hunter working up his relationship with Zaria.  He doesn't make it his first time, leaving for class without realizing he needs a couple more points with one of the kids.  He reapplies once he is home and makes it without an issue.

Frankie, the one brother who did not make it last time we played these guys calls and gets in as soon as the students show up.

Martin is "abducted" by the secret society and is asked to join the group. He is the first of this group of students to join and has made it based on all of the time he spent making friends over at the greek house during our playtime with them.

A while ago I added a gate into the cow plant.  Typically I have my inductee feed the cow plant when they show up, however, the cow plant had not been fed for a while and this student, Addison something, decided to be lured by the cow plant. He is unceremoniously eaten and everyone at the SS is very sad.

Allegra becomes the next student to make it into the Greek House and doesn't have a problem getting all the needed points to get in on her first try.

The students do spend time talking with each other and the other dormies.  Lots of friends need to be made in order to get those precious points.

Brennan, who has been in the background a bit, gets invited on an outing by one of his best friends.  His dad is a part of the group, which is very eclectic, having both Dora Ottomans on one end and Marsha Bruenig on the other.

Tohsa, the only student who has not made it into the Greek House yet, invites over the group.  She is the only student who did not visit the house during our playtime with them.  As such she has no relationship with any of the students.  As expected she does not make it this first time, but she does succeed in meeting everyone and building up some relationship with all of them.

With his brother in, and probably due to the amount of time he also spent at the Greek House, Brennan becomes the next SS inductee.  The cow plant is full, and not interested in eating anyone else now.

In the dorms, we realize many of the playable students have very low relationships with each other.  So a hangout session is had in the hall.

During the hangout session, Hunter Gray is requested to come with the man in the fancy suit and led out to a limo.  He is taken back to the SS house and becomes inductee number 3 for this dorm.

The dorm has also been fitted with a small garden in the side yard.  Just like in the Greek House, whichever student is available when the plants need tending is sent out to work on watering and weeding.

Allegra has become very interested in nature and decides to lead a hike of all the female residents, at least the ones who were home, of the dorm.  They come back with a gnome they found during the hike, and it was a good time for Allegra.

Allegra and Tosha have become much closer friends, and share breakfast together.  Frankie is also seen chatting up one of the other dorm mates over a bowl of cereal, I believe.

I look forward to moving some of these sims into the Greek House after this semester.  Brennan will likely be the first to move over, with his love, Tosha.  He has formed a great dislike of this dorm mate and they spend hours poking each other.

Not to be outdone by his brothers Frankie is inducted into the SS next.  That leaves only 2 students not in the SS for this playthrough.

Tosha tries the second time to get into the Greek House, and makes it without an issue.  I thought it was sort of funny all of the other members are dancing the hula in perfect unison behind her as she makes it.

During a dating session, we realize that Frankie and Hunter have only been in a crush state this entire time.  They have finally formed love and both start throwing wishes for each other left and right.

Tosha gets "kidnapped' during a dancing session in the dorm, and we all know what that means by now.  Another point as Tosha is inducted into the SS next.

In a funny turn of events, I have most of the students focus on homework.  Without any doing on my part all of the boys sit on the floor in the hallway to do their homework. In contrast, each of the girls, including a dormie girl, take their homework to the tables in the cafeteria and do their homework there.  There are lots of other chairs and tables in there so the boys COULD have done this.  I notice this phenomenon even when I'm not directing it within the dormies.  Girls almost always carry their homework to the tables, boys just sit on the floor where they are.

Brennan and this dorm mates relationship has fractured even further into enemies and a fight breaks out.  Unfortunately for Brennan, she wins and his brothers both see it happen.

We finally end this update with Allegra being the final sim to get inducted into the SS.  Each of these students is now a part of it and have been mostly successful.  Both Tosha and Allegra have fallen belove 4.0's, but are still doing well.

With that, we wrap up the final area for this round.  We will have a round summary coming up and then it's time to get back to the town and meet up with the families again.

RUNNING SCORE:
Previous Points: +53
BSOC (Arnav) +1
TOI (Arnav) +1
Summa Cum Laude (Jaiden, Eugene) + 2
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NEW SCORE: +57