Dorms food and travel time to get to class

I know I’m a bit late, but...

I’m playing my first go-around in Uni (was waiting for my teen to age up) and she’s in the art history program at UBrite. She doesn’t live in the dorms - that didn’t really fit in to her story in my head, so she lives in the small trailer in StrangerVille with her military high school sweetheart (yes I’m just now playing the SV storyline too).

So on her first day of class, I traveled to the UBrite commons... she finished her homework, and then went to class. I figured I’d switch back to her boyfriend and get the “work from home” task done while she was in class - NOPE. Can’t switch sims, or your student sim will immediately leave class and get scolded for attendance. Thankfully that one incident didn’t kill her grade.

So, this is what I’ve been doing now... for my military sim, I either send him to work or work from home depending on his girl’s class/work schedule (she’s also a barista from 5a-7a). For my Uni sim... depending on her class schedule, I either travel to the commons and spend several hours there or I send her to class from home. If she only has one class that day, I’m likely to just stay home and she goes to class like she would go to work. If she has a couple classes - she goes to work, comes home... replenishes her needs, and then we travel to the commons. I’m a big micromanager, so I pay close attention to her class times and what buildings she goes to (especially if she’s studying or finishing up homework at the last minute) - and if I cancel the “go to class early” interaction, I’ll have her stop whatever she’s doing about 25-20 minutes before class and have her jog over to the building, and sit on the nearest bench. She’ll do some last min fun stuff like play on her phone or listen to her earbuds. Or study if she’s about to take an exam. When class is over, we go back over to the commons... she eats, works out (I added a small basement gym), or does more homework and term paper stuff. 20 or so minutes before her next class starts, we jog back over to the building. 

So, even though she doesn’t live in the dorms, she still spends a lot of time on campus (also for the art society), which is good because I still get that “college feel” even though she lives in StrangerVille. Her younger sister is still a teen, but she’ll be the one to get the full dorm/uni experience when she ages up and attends Foxbury for biology (future doctor).

I know, it’s a lot of extra steps... but like I said I micromanage like crazy and play with autonomy off, and it took me a term to get that system down but it seems to work well... the latest she has been to class is maybe 5 minutes and it didn’t effect her grades or anything. 

Oh and... I also usually send her to class with her earbuds still on, and her fun doesn’t seem to plummet either even when taking notes or listening.

Apologies for that being so long... but I hope something in all that helps someone. 😊