University is driving me crazy!

My first try I went for four classes and one of the dorms. I gave up, it was a horrendous experience.
On my second attempt I lived on campus but in a student house instead. I also took two/three classes each time and had a much more enjoyable experience.

(Use door locks to lock them out to stop them barging in)

Thanks for the advice! I’m currently taking 3 classes and an extracurricular and I’m still ready to rip my hair out but maybe I’ll try 2 next time

I still don't own the game due to work overload, but I'm really glad they made it challenging! Without Mods the game feels too easy to me compared to The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, so this is a very positive surprise. You can buy a bike for your Sim to go to class with, I've seen in videos that it makes things move faster and they don't miss class easily. Also, if you have the Fitness SP installed, you can use earbuds so your Sim can listen to music whilst doing homework or working on a presentation, so her Fun Need goes up. Good luck and I hope you enjoy the EP despite the challenges!

Living in a student house is great. Just stop aging and don't take so many classes at once.

"kendallran;d-969237" wrote:
It feels like I’m in the actual game attending university and it’s so frustrating! My sim only gets to bed at 4, she’s barely eating because she has to rush to do her work, and she’s barely meeting anyone or having fun because she’s so focused on her work! Not only this but because of her low needs it’s making her walk slow to class. And the npc roommates are so annoying because they’re barging in rooms that aren’t there’s just to use a computer or listen to radio! And when my sim is doing homework other sims keep coming over to talk with her and that’s slowing her down. I’m 3 seconds away from having her drop out! I guess they really took more challenges in the sims 4 to the next level

That was how it was for me playing Sims 2 University. :)

"gothprincess4ever;c-17320018" wrote:
I still don't own the game due to work overload, but I'm really glad they made it challenging! Without Mods the game feels too easy to me compared to The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, so this is a very positive surprise. You can buy a bike for your Sim to go to class with, I've seen in videos that it makes things move faster and they don't miss class easily. Also, if you have the Fitness SP installed, you can use earbuds so your Sim can listen to music whilst doing homework or working on a presentation, so her Fun Need goes up. Good luck and I hope you enjoy the EP despite the challenges!

Thanks! I tried a bike but she didn’t automatically equip it, and I didn’t want to stop time just to take out a bike. Also the bikes sometimes get stuck and left in the same spot they were last equipped at for some reason.

The issue mainly is the time factor to complete tasks. When it takes your sim over an hour to eat a bowl of cereal, or 30 minutes to walk down a flight of stairs, any interuptions to those tasks can really be taxing when your sim is on a tight time budget. Sims commnonly take over an hour just to shower. And don't even get me started on the minutes that fly by in between task commands when they are just standing there doing nothing while you wait for them to finally activate the next task in the queve.

Add to that the time management scheme of keeping your needs up to par. I had my sim's social down to a bit less than half. I used the microphone to tell jokes to raise her social and fun at the same time. It took nearly 5 sim hours to get her social bar back up to full. And that's with the microphone replenishing 2 arrows. By that time she was tired, and half starved. So I had her eat, then go to bed. By the time she woke back up she was a bit hungry again, her social need was down again a little, she needed a shower, and of course, by the end of fixing all of that, she was 10% on her way to needing more sleep.

Then EA/Maxis expect our sims to have 2 hours to do homework for each of 4 classes, plus term papers, presentations, research, time to go to classes, AND lets not forget the partying and relationship building. Lets all save time for that too.

Edit:
.....(correction) Actually, it just took my sim just 4 sim minutes to walk up a flight of stairs. So I was wrong on the 30 minute claim.

Pro tip: create dorms with fewer beds overall (6 is a good maximum) & use the lock door feature. In your own room, you lock for everyone but you and your immediate roomie if you've got one, then do the same for all the other dorm rooms as well ("Lock for everyone" + "Unlock for ". This HUGELY helps the experience. Adding a cafeteria in your dorm also makes the experience more fun.

Second: take fewer classes. If you take only 1 or 2 you can party and go out etc. You can even do it with 3, but 4 definitely not. :)

Spellcasters have it made. Once you have the needs potion you can replenish your needs constantly. And Vampires should too. You have to watch the daylight though. For a regular human I would suggest a light course load.

Having said that my first university Sim is living at home and only taking two classes a term. Also grades are related to skill level. That's what you need to increase. Once you max out a skill Uni should become real easy.

My advices:
turn aging off
take up to 2 classes
lock the room
lock the computer
skill research & debate at least on lvl 6 (then your sim will do homeworks, presentations and essays way faster)
keep some fruits in your sim's inventory as a first aid. hungry sim = annoying sim (that's me also)

(If you let your sim join robotics society and climb up the ladder your sim can earn extra point for villainy, physics and computer science. That means your sim will graduate earlier.)