Why is the University "year" so short?
I was playing a sim yesterday and they went to college on a weekend but their class was scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday. So they did their term paper on the weekend (before they EVER went to class...
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"smoothyrus129;c-17430455" wrote:"LaBlue0314;c-17430294" wrote:"jimbbq;c-17428472" wrote:
I think the university is too long! 3 weeks of homework and term paper. What is the point in this?
When your sim gets their degree, depending on their grades they will be starting at a much higher level when they start their career. One of my sims after she had, she started at level 8 in her chosen profession.
Yes, this! It's the main benefit of spending the first several weeks of your sim's young adult life in college, they'll start out in their chosen career at a much higher level. If you take only 2 or 3 classes per term, you'll spend a few extra weeks at university (4 weeks if you do 3/term, 6 weeks if you do 2/term, some other combination if you flip between 2-3 and even throw in a 4), but you'll also have more time to work on getting them higher grades (and therefore a higher starting level in their profession and a bigger signing bonus) as well as time to let them have a life beyond study-homework-class-repeat.
Also, if you aim to start the term on a Wednesday or Thursday (so you enroll on Tuesday or Wednesday, because the first day of term will be the next day after you enroll), you have the weekend built into the term, so you have a couple of extra days to get work done and also enjoy life (as opposed to if you enroll on Sunday and term starts on Monday, because then it ends on Friday and you don't get the benefit of the weekend).
I tend to enroll on Thursdays or Fridays, so I start on Mondays. But i move into the dorm on Saturday morning or Friday night, so same there, I get my term paper and / or presentation done before the robot exhibition on Sunday and the first round of homework done before bedtime that Sunday.
