How Do You Deal With University?

As the sims in my worlds expands with new births, lately I just group the young adults from teen yrs into one house then send them all together to the dorms, other student housing or have them live with the Elderberries in Britechester. The work is grinding but when they finish a semester I send them to Sulani or whatever for vacation. It's also nice if you ave a spellcastor that can create the plenty of needs potion so they can do their studies and activities with their organizations without needing to stop to take care of their basic needs.. One time I had my own 8 sims livng in the dorms but somehow added an NPC dormie that brought food all the time. That was fun. I also fill the dorms/student housing with lots of activities to help them with fun, workout, emotions, skills and etc. Basically I'd rather send a bunch of sims at one time to get their degree instead of one at a time.

I always have my sims live at home, have a full time job hopefully one with the option to work from home and get them taking 2-3 classes. I find I get more out of it the less classes they take and it extends my time playing the uni gameplay.

"elanorbreton;c-18143694" wrote:
LOL I just realised I forgot to put my own option in of playing the max credits, so I had to vote other.

*rolls eyes*

I was going to say just that. :D

So yeah, "Other" for me, too, although I usually grind through the entire thing at once, sometimes grouping together various students that wouldn't know each other normally. And I have to say that doing this one too many times has soured my opinion of the pack somewhat. It wouldn't be half as bad if university was more compatible with rotational play, though.

Yep, max credits.
If I send them, I get it over with as soon as possible. I grind them through unless I decide to play a different storyline because something else has caught my attention or am testing something in another household.

I use a mod that essentially removes homework (automatically finished the daily work) so my sims only have to work term papers and presentations (heck, that's how I did university IRL). That frees up time to have a social life while still requiring some school work.

I do max credits. Fortunately my sim, who just finished her second degree, had it pretty easy with only two classes each day. Only exception was one term where she had three classes some days and one on the others.

I would consider it, but I hated living in the dorms in-game, making it an unpaid job (by living at home) is boring, and though I like the concept, the length is just too much when I decide to hop from job to job. 4 credits per week for 3, or 4+ weeks of less is asking too much.

"EnkiSchmidt;c-18143708" wrote:

Alternately you could rule that some careers require "some college". The sim would work towards 2-4 credits and instead of a degree they'd get the "Connections" reward trait that lets them skip to level three of a career (cheat the required satisfaction points if needed).

@EnkiSchmidt
You have inspired me. That is ingenius.

Maybe "work-study" programs like volunteering at the soup kitchen for culinary, cleaning up trash for conservationist, etc. This would alleviate the fact that getting into a job has no real requirements, but without needing 3 whole weeks to get one degree.

I have grown to prefer having my Sim go to Uni from home. However, every now and then I get urge to have them in the dorm setting. I am really curious to see how the High School pack is going to handle schooling. I still think University is a great pack because it adds the option to go to college from home which no other Uni packs in past games offered. However, I agree that it can be a needs-juggling grindfest most of the time and I have to be in a very specific mood to play the game like that as I am usually a storyteller first of all. When I first got the Uni pack I had a set of triplets go to school together and it was INSANE!

I generally find the gameplay some what boring in the Sims 4 university so I take a few classes each semester so my sims can have time for other stuff as well. I think the Sims 4 version of university focuses to much and studies and that there isn't really much of anything that is fun for students to do outside of classes and homework, I wish the on campus events were better.

My University Sims take one class in their course of study at a time. They sometimes also take an elective, but not always. Since I play with aging off, I'm in no hurry to get my Sims their degrees before much of their lives pass them by.

Their lighter course loads allow my Sims to do more than academic activities. They can participate in campus activities, socialize, and relax. They also live at home, but they usually hang out on campus every day, or in other places in Britechester.