Doing it Right This Time! Making a Super Student in The Sims 4 Discover University

[@user-vm5iu4bm8k]

I raised a toddler to get Top Notch Toddler, completed the 4 child aspirations to get the Gifted traits, completed scouts to get the trait from that, completed high school with an A, maxed out several skills waiting to age up, went to college for a physics degree, (after several attempts) completed 3 weeks of college with a GPA of an A+, graduated with honors, and became an engineer. This is a good way to go if you hate having fun. I recommend it.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Wow. yeah.... it'd work out a bit better than here to stack literally all of it, thanks to all the side bonuses. I'd have covered them in this but too few skills/emotions play a role in school performance (or else this could've definitely been a lot more comprehensive) On the flip side of this topic some people want it to be more difficult so I'm planning to try Zero's mods for tuition (requiring higher student loans)/honors requirements but I'm waiting until a few more catch my eye.

[@HerHollyness]

@@CarlsSimGuides Zero's mods don't really make the gameplay more difficult, just raise the tuition, make it harder to get accepted for a distinguished degree, and (if you like) restrict certain careers to graduates. I love them because they make it more realistic!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

@@HerHollyness Right, it might set a speed limit on you after graduation though. I don't like how you're almost instantly out of debt. But it's a fair point and is one reason I'm waiting, to see if anyone comes up with ideas to make the attendance a bit more challenging without adding frustration.

[@mj6903]

HerHollyness ooh, which mods do that?

[@MaeveWantsAillill]

@@CarlsSimGuides Usually I'm not one of those people that like challenges, I want to relax when I play but the university gameplay is just plain boring the moment you get to the second term. It's all the same over and over. I wouldn't want to play through that a second time. I would have liked to see more variety. You research, you study, you do homework, a term paper, a presentation, a final exam... and then it all starts again. It would have been more interesting if there were interactive assignments. Some examples: interview other sims, gather some type of items, craft something, cook, photograph and so on, each specific for a degree or elective. In the beginning the more varied gameplay comes from university groups but those become repetitive too soon enough. Just to say: I wouldn't have wanted more challenge but for sure more variety to keep me guessing what could have been thought of for each degree and go back with other sims to try it and see. Instead I watch others play different degrees and they're all the same as mine. The one I haven't seen so far is the robotics degree, maybe that one is different. If not, I don't think I'll ever have a sim attend university again. Been there, done that, that's enough. And all the fuss about the low tuition, from a european point of view, I just can't understand. From my standpoint, the tuition isn't at all that low but here in Italy, if you come from a low income family, university costs are very low. The higher expenses just go to books (it depends on the degree, medicine books are hella expensive) or the everyday cost of living (a room or house rent and food). I'm not able to see the fascination in being completely broke and in debt for university. So I guess that it all comes to the point of view: to me this version of university is more realistic, I find it somewhat balanced and reasonable. Just to give a concrete idea, I paid 700 euros per year for university, books not included, and I was lucky to live in the same town so I didn't have to rent a room. About 1000 simoleons per term is more than enough for me to define a reasonably expensive education.

[@stlthct6321]

When you don’t have time to play this pack because you are a university student in real life... 🥺

[@jse1628]

hahaha so true i got it but didnt rlly get to play it. basically just tested it out one day with 4 subjects in one semester. had to cheat my sims needs bc like rl life uni aint nobody gt time to sleep or eat #sadtruthaboutunilife #exactlymethesedays

[@happinesswins]

I want to so badly but I work full time, have a child, and am in grad school full time. :(

[@Tashwampa]

I just neglect a third of my schoolwork

[@simonepegels3815]

Now with the Corona crisis you can😜

[@mrbacon3684]

Cash*

[@taliaghoul]

I purposely had the repo man come and take my stuff just so I could see how he took my stuff. I was not let down, they come and suck your stuff up in a vacuum, just like they did in Sims 3. Weird though, my repo man was the same dude my sim had a shower woohoo fling with while in university. LOL

[@taliaghoul]

@Favour Ubani lol yeah, I guess so

[@markabele8794]

That's funny. I guess this sim wasn't impressed by the woohoo.

[@taliaghoul]

@@markabele8794 Oh wow, maybe not lol

[@Mistysmudge1]

OMG 😮 😂 🤣

[@georgacunliffe8640]

Oof didn’t end well I guess

[@KirieHimuro100]

If you have the fitness stuff, use the earbuds. Keeps your fun need at max. Traveling and sleeping turns the earbuds off.

[@Nicole-ru9tu]

That's smart as heck , I rarely use that fitness stuff pack lol

[@AlexiusDenelle16]

That’s actually an amazing tip, I never use them.

[@HerHollyness]

Good tip! I never use those...

[@mitismitis]

I can confirm, these earbuds are saving my sim's life.

[@Komobear]

I mean, makes sense. If us humans are lacking fun then we just bust out our earbuds and listen to music.

[@AlexiusDenelle16]

I don’t know why there is a comment about how you sound , and that you sound bored or tired. Your voice is always mellow, which I appreciate. It’s a nice balance from louder sims youtubers

[@mauricebarnett6107]

AlexiusDenelle16 Agreed. I was actually just coming here to say how soothing and familiar I find Carl’s voice to be. It’s driving me crazy trying to think of who he sounds like to me?

[@zodiacsagittarius344]

@@mauricebarnett6107 me too. I really like his drunk bro voice

[@mauricebarnett6107]

Zodiac Sagittarius Hey Zodiac Sagittarius! My bday is December 18th! When is yours?!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Most people react poorly to their own voice. I had it at first, but it's gradually gone away from listening to myself for hours though I still occasionally cringe. I feel comfortable enough it's not obnoxious, and I'm happy to hear a few people here and there say this as it is only helping me to be more comfortable on the platform. Since I'm not a personality channel, it's all I really have to communicate with everyone so that's a bit important.

[@zodiacsagittarius344]

Maurice Barnett wtf dude that's my birthday too! How'd you know?

[@JazzFlute05]

It would be nice if there was a visible grade meter to watch. Realistically if you are a student you typically do know how you are doing unless the entire grade rests on a final project. I played one semester with my sim - did the homework and the projects; and studied. I was late to one of the classes several times and forgot to do the homework for it. But still got an A+ in all the classes. Perhaps because I studied before the final???

[@megamusicmessenger]

I think you have to do so many things ... like a point system so you get ex amount of points for doing homework so many for exams and going to class e.c.t so as long as you meet them then you will get an A+ . doesn't matter if you don't do one of the things. if you contact the professor by phone or office hours e.c.t and you message says something like you are one of my best students and i wish others worked as hard as you then basically means you will at-least get an A

[@CarlsSimGuides]

@@megamusicmessenger And actually visiting the professor actually gives you progress too. I need to figure out what things give this progress and exactly how many hours it'd take for each one.. y'know, because it's not nearly easy enough yet :P

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

My sim never studied, still got A+ for all 4 classes.

[@lrsf6875]

I disagree. I find it more fun and realistic to be constantly questioning and underestimating my sims grades. And while it is annoying if you spent unnecessary time studying, I feel that those unseen challenges and difficulties make the game more fun. However the grades system has many flaws.

[@sha46327]

I sadly don't yet have DU, but if I recall correctly from the LPs I've been watching - you can call and ask about your grades. I agree some sort of bar like the kids/teens have would've been nice at the very least, but I can only assume maybe they decided against them as it would have been yet another thing shown for every single class and only further cluttered the already pretty full looking side panel - but that's just my guess.

[@rowredround7206]

Play with the soccer ball while waiting between classes. It’s great. Makes them happy and focused.

[@AramaiJonassi]

How do you get a soccer ball? I had my sim live at home because they already had a family but it sounds like it was a mistake.

[@rowredround7206]

You can get them from the kiosks on campus or if you’re on an athlete scholarship you get one automatically. Kiosks are in the quads on each campus - where you can buy stuff for the dorms and university clothing. I also found spending a lot of time at the commons helped, when I first started playing this pack.

[@AramaiJonassi]

@@rowredround7206 Good to know. Thanks so much. I'm new to the game & I'm clueless.😁

[@sarahrodrigues9849]

That's what I did to, or I had them chat with someone on the phone

[@mooshboint]

If you submit the term paper (having edited it fully) and get the presentation to outstanding before the classes even begin, it becomes mega easy. If you take notes in all your classes and do all the homework, you never have to study for exams.

[@sarahrodrigues9849]

That's what I have my sims do, when I first started I had them study, but I was like screw it and just took notes

[@ingeborg-anne]

There are some cues in those emails that I have complete faith that you will be able to decipher. When they talk about it being stellar, it means you're at an A+. If you go to class and still get a "you squeezed all out of it" without taking notes, you're all good.

[@Zazsuran]

I never have my Sims ‘study’. I find that doing the homework before each class and submitting term papers and/or final presentation on time is sufficient to getting an A+. I think if your Sim doesn’t do their homework on time then as a boost you can have them study.

[@Jayariee]

I did all this and got a D. I came here wondering what i Did wrong

[@Zazsuran]

@@Jayariee Do you have them "take notes" during class? That raises the grade of the class as well.

[@azalea9908]

Jayarie Have them study each class shortly a day or two before finals, that worked for me

[@sarahrodrigues9849]

I have my sims do the homework, make sure that their papers and presentations are the highest quality, and took notes, and I always got A's

[@emilykettler251]

You have an A+ in a class when it says something like you are one of the top students in my class. I wish more students were like you.

[@MaeveWantsAillill]

I decided to take the relaxed approach to university and never took more than 2 classes per term. It gives plenty of time to build skills, do assignments, join a group, building the role in the group and socialize. I kept my sim in a dorm for 4 out of 6 terms but I became more annoyed with dorm life the more it went on so I decided to build a house purposedly thought for having roommates: a little house for my sim and a bigger one for those who pay the rent (and I gave it the study spot trait). There's much less mess around, I only put 4 beds in the rented house, so that there wouldn't be a whole lot of people around but, since it's full of students, many of those who were in the dorms began visiting. This method keeps down the chaos of having too many sims active at every hour of day and night, it doesn't detract from the socializing aspect, if you use the locking on doors you have a true house for yourself with your spaces and a real kitchen and on top of all you make cash from the renting fees. I decided to also place a research machine and some fun and skill building stuff. I had the world come to me at my own conditions and my sims has earned an A+ in every single course she's taken without having to ignore her own needs. I don't think I'll ever play again in a dorm, it's too messy. And I also don't know if I'll ever play again a student, I'll probably cheat my future degrees because, after a while, it just gets boring. It's the same stuff over and over again. But there's one thing that I love in this pack, and it's not the wall showers, as I was expecting: it's rentable bed spots. I love having roommates. I've never liked having households with more than one sim but taking my sim around was never something I did really unless it was for a specific purpose (Outdoor retreat, Jungle adventure, Strangerville). Having the house inhabited by sims you don't have to take care of is such fun. THIS is a feature I'll always keep using from this pack.

[@zoe0187]

8 love roommates too. But me, I loved living on dorms with 9 other sims, their friends, boy/girl friends, messiness and spoiled food. When I left the dorm I missed the other sims. I loved watching them when my sims was busy studying or going classes.

[@MaeveWantsAillill]

@@zoe0187 Having them in your home is almost the same experience, just a little less messy :) For me the dorms are too overloaded

[@Mistysmudge1]

MaeveWantsAillill I sent my Sims to the smaller dorms, so not as messy and had more personal space too. I also love the roommates feature though 😁

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Do Sims just teleport form home lot (like a typical career) when you attend off-campus like that? I'm curious because that'd be super efficient for time. You'd think it'd be the case that living on campus would be easier but it sounds like a more custom experience is going to help a lot. The beds at the pre-made dorms are pretty awful and I suspect take a couple more hours to fill energy.

[@MaeveWantsAillill]

@@CarlsSimGuides Yes, it works just like any rabbit hole career. You lose the option to get to class early but I don't feel it's that important. And, yes, the chance to fully customize your home gives the sim advantages they don't have in dorms. And you can pay university with the fees from renting the rooms. There's one thing I was confused about: when I moved my sims in the dorm, I kept receiving household bills although the game forces you to sell your house if you have just one sim in the household. I wish it had worked like the vacations system. I don't want to have two sims in the household just to have one being a placeholder for my house.

[@raffyoli]

i absolutely lost it when you started ranting abt the sprites and trash man

[@CarlsSimGuides]

That was one of the most enjoyable bits/rants I've written. I'm glad you found it funny!

[@ranosian1135]

Get some ear buds and listen to music while doing homework

[@mj6903]

Ranosian omg thank you for the tip

[@ranosian1135]

@@mj6903 I saw iton James Turner channel. So take no credit

[@icecube5371]

How do you get the ear buds?

[@ranosian1135]

Use phone. Buy gift.

[@kiriehimuro9185]

IceCube Fitness stuff pack. Can order from a computer like medicine or upgrade parts. Sometimes, you’ll get a pop up for some free ear buds. $100 otherwise.

[@miss_rebel]

I appreciate this in-depth gameplay of the pack. Sucks that the roommate system isn't good like the Sims 3 uni, but I appreciate the realistic aspect and the pain you and your sim had to endure for the video.

[@franks_fiction]

This will be the only time students want college debt to be higher than it is.

[@Tru1Tani]

This is awesome taking an in depth look is greatly appreciated

[@CarlsSimGuides]

It's definitely my thing so imagine my relief to find an audience for it! Thanks for checking it out.

[@Tru1Tani]

@@CarlsSimGuides I share your videos on Facebook all the time lol. They're awesome and super helpful and the sims4 ps4 group I am in is always asking about console updates and you're one of the very few channels that get information for us too

[@alyceahall2263]

When he said in between classes I have my sim play on the phone or take naps in public places because it's not worth walking anywhere. I asked myself did he get advice from a real university student because I do that in real life

[@chriswatchingponies9877]

Food tip : I had honestly no idea where she got it from, but my Sim suddenly had a grill in her inventory. She was able to put it ''in the world.'' It's a complete grey metal massive looking grill. Look into that. Fun : biking is great ! for fun. Just pedal up and down an alley twice and fun will be up again in minimum time.

[@minionsofthelordbagali5324]

The secret society: the torture of Sims by some forking fairies for fun

[@HerHollyness]

The Secret Society is not a bad decision - I don't know how it ended up giving your Sim a more stressful life! Metals are hard to come by, but crystals and harvestables can be ordered from the computer; your roommates always come by with food; and otherwise you only need to be friendly with people to level up the membership. The Sprites (especially the Focused Sprite) are legitimately SO helpful. All you have to do is a couple of funny socials with someone when one appears, and you end up with a 12 hour buff! And when you max the membership and unlock their full potential (I won't spoil it), it's amazing!

[@Mistysmudge1]

HerHollyness Not tried the secret society yet, sounds cool 😎

[@Lemontea345]

May I know whether I can keep the summoning sprite power after I graduate? Just wondering if I can play that with my magic cult sim

[@HerHollyness]

joy / - No, unfortunately you automatically leave university organisations when you graduate. 🙁

[@CarlsSimGuides]

You just definitely need to pay attention when they visit, and I wasn't doing so - resulting in me being their target for torment. I think there are favor levels with them, so you can be someone they like. It might start low, then you ignore them and end up on their crap list.

[@jesseaugustx]

Sharing all of your frustrations I can't help but wonder what the odds are of them fixing the UI for classes and adding a progress bar. Probably end up calling it a design choice, like the townies becoming spellcasters in ROM.

[@JamesFluker]

James Turner managed to start his term/semester on a Tuesday instead of a Monday which meant he got a weekend as part of the term. Two days of extra time to complete stuff!

[@mbchudno]

maxed out vampire works great to adress most of those complains. near instant teleportation, no need to sleep, can comand people to clean, master of the night gives you huge buff, daywalker fixes sun...etc. god knows there is plenty of meatbags to satisfy your thurst. i found great safe way to feed is in the library on a balcony. just talk to someone, then click there and say "chat here" so you move convation into private place.

[@skydonn2456]

Thanks for the advice on super students. Tip: if you are a foxbury student, go to Foxbury commons and eat there for free at the cafeteria as long as you are a student there. the cafeteria is open during the day and part of the night. Foxbury commons also has some Research and Debate machines, computers as well as robot making machines. You can adjust the lot traits to include study spot there and even combine with peace and quiet to be able to read real fast. UBrite also has a commons too, I think it is Called Darby.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Peace and quiet with the boost to learning from skill books in R&D, with study spot... that sounds insanely OP.

[@lueurdehache]

"and my Sim almost never needs to see her parents" I can't get enough of your videos :)

[@pkaczalek404]

Just get realm of magic alongside this pack and use spells and potions. Need food? Delicioso spell. Stinky? Scruberoo. Very helpful. You can even smite that one annoying classmate with lightning should you feel like it.

[@sha46327]

Gaaah, I can't wait to get this EP into my game!! I don't mind the cost of Uni in game though, I think as Americans we need to keep in mind that A LOT of the rest of the world doesn't have to pay, much less go into dept, to attend college - and I think the sims team did a decent job of finding a happy medium. Bc while we're saying "it's too cheap, it's not realistic", many other players from others places are wondering why their sims have to pay at all and think that's not very realistic to their experience. (Plus, I'm sure there are probably already mods for higher costs if that's really the route you want to torture your sim with, LOL.) "It means you're their little b***h" - LMAO!!! I LOLed far too loudly at that, lol... This is one area that, even without playing the pack yet myself, I find really disappointing - the sprites expect too much, and it doesn't seem like much of a group. Sucky, they could've been so much more and actually been a fun thing *worth* your time in doing. Thank you!! Awesome overview as usual, can't wait to check out the finished post! Hope you have a lovely weekend, and have a great week. Best of wishes!

[@chloexianah3070]

There are really great mods that make uni much more expensive and tougher

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Planning to cover a few of them actually!

[@MagnusItland]

Another trick is to buy a skill book (like Research) and read it when your fun gets low. It raises fun and the skill simultaneously. Wellness from Spa Day also has great synergy with Uni: Bring a yoga mat, drag it to the dorm floor, have roomie use it a couple time and they can give you a quick 4-hour Concentrated moodlet before you go do homework.

[@elberethjoy9539]

If your sims is a spellcaster, get them to brew a potion of plentiful needs and learn the copysato spell. Never need to eat or sleep during the semester. Also, with glimmerstone, you can travel to magic realm to buy rare crystal or metal to make the offering. Moreover, if you learned transportation spell, you can choose to always use it and it save all the time walking around because you will just teleport to wherever you want to go. Saved me lot of time to join more organizations. I am getting 4 A+s in the soccer team, brainiacs, bot savants, foxbury Spirit squad and order of enchantment. I am making progress in levelling up in the organizations.

[@casss2313]

I've watched this three times and I keep laughing out loud every time you say "What an absolute pig of a man."

[@skydonn2456]

Thanks for explaining some of the boosts. tips for discover University the caster and sulani mana: trip to the magic realm to learn practical magic only, to create potions of plentiful needs, to cast rapairo on the potions to increase the excellency. to cast volcanic bomb and when it cools off to gather items from it, gift of sulani also evolves your plant eventually to excellent produce. The magic realm also has a kitchen to bake excellent cakes if you live in the dorm. The forager perk helps you find 2 items per dig in Magic Realm together with drinking the potion of good fortune. You will have good offerings for the secret society and be able to take care of all your needs with a potion.

[@babygurleatsshickennuggits4201]

Honestly thought the whole time that with a spellcaster you can just have them drink their drink and teleport

[@chriswatchingponies9877]

Oh ! And the greatest hack of them all : My girl is the daughter of the spellcaster that discovered the Magic Realm for me, and she was a Master when she was just a teen. Edit: and she also was a Top Notch toddler. She was my first perfectly raised kid. She just hacked herself into becoming a professor, thanks to the potions and transporting. :)) She's now copy/pasto-ing potions to make Uni easier for her hubby.

[@bitingapotato3277]

After driving myself nuts the way you seem to have going way overboard getting good grades that apparently can't be overmaxed, I decided to take a different approach: I remade Van Wilder. My sim had a tiny house in town, one course and one elective. The effort to simply pass those is negligible, which left a lot of time for partying, pranks and just messing with the other sims in general. Much more enjoyable.

[@Nicole-ru9tu]

I really hope they raise debt in the next patch cause damn

[@Biiku_]

Between Carl and Under the Plumbob Podcast, I am in Sim heaven. We love you Carl! 😘

[@tinapatterson9234]

I had been playing a young adult Sim who was an archaeologist when DU came out. Instead of making a whole new household, I just used him. When he applied, he had enough skills for a distinguished degree in Psychology which would also land him a chance at being a professor. Of course, my mind went to Archaeologist + Professor = Indiana Jones and immediately sat him down at his computer to enroll. I also switched his aspiration to the new one (he could go back to poking around in the dirt later). I found that in order for a single sim to live on campus, he'd have to move. As in, sell his house and move to the campus kind of move. Really?!? Here's yet another reason for me to like Sims 3 more than Sims 4. 3 Classes, an elective and being a member of the Spirit Squad was hectic but not near as difficult as I thought it would be. He did really well considering he had to travel home each night to sleep. At least he had good meals. He also had to keep up on his household bills the entire time he was in university, and thankfully, he had built up enough in his household funds to allow that. Also, during his time on the weekend between terms, he did his homework, typed and edited his term paper, and did the same for presentations if he had them. That certainly took a load off of him during the rest of the week and allowed him to attend functions with his classmates some evenings after his homework was done. I certainly would have liked the experience of living on campus though. I also found that studying really did nothing for his grades, but instead built up his logic. I have no idea how your Sim was able to sit in the library to do her work. When my Sim went there, he was constantly interrupted by other Sims wanting to chat. Which I guess solved his social needs... but geez! In the end, all he needed to do to graduate with all A+'s was to go to class... do his homework... turn in any term papers and presentations... and that was all that was needed.

[@MaeveWantsAillill]

I was perplexed too by the selling the house thing. I got MCC installed and prevented through the settings for the empty houses to be filled automatically or I would have been pissed if, at the end of university, my sim wouldn't have found her house free to buy anymore. I would have really liked it more if the dorm experience worked as the vacations work. The system was there already, I don't understand why they didn't use it.

[@tinapatterson9234]

@@MaeveWantsAillill I could have done that, but he had so much in the way of personal stuff, and me being lazy, I didn't want to have to go through the house and store everything in the house inventory. But I agree, considering they have found a work-around for vacations, they really should have used a bit of effort (considering it's an expansion pack and not a game pack) to make it so that we could attend and not have to sell our houses. Maybe they have a thing about single people.

[@TheInsaneVane]

Just sell the house INCLUDING the furniture. Everything stays in place as you left it because you are selling the furniture WITH the house. When you want to move home again you just rebuy the whole thing. If someone moved in in the meantime you can go to Manage Worlds, click on the house and use the Evict option in the bottom right. This kicks out the household and they "sell" the house and all furnishings, meaning the house is left as is and ready for you to move back to. If all the house residents die, the house is emptied of furniture, so you might want to move townies around (by Evicting them) if a single Elder moves in etc. Just check on the house occasionally while at Uni to see who is living there.

[@Ancaryvan]

Hello Carl, one tip on food: I remember there are some food that can be created without using oven, the salad dish in cooking or parfait snack in gourmet cooking. If City Living is included the raw fish nigiri or puffer fish nigiri is the best. All we need is fridge and counter. Since my sim knows how to make these, no worry for food.

[@georgiapeach7832]

You absolutely crack me up talking about the sprites and pig people lol! I learn so much from you.....thanks!

[@sabrinalecrivainmediaTM]

My tips... Really study your class schedule with times...always complete hw to the closest class that day...I suggest completing term papers and doing the presentation first when the semester starts... then how u interact in class for the day matters...

[@nyahhugs]

Ear buds! This pack is the one time that you definitely need earbuds for! Just turn them on and your sim will gain fun as long as they are on!

[@anaa8989]

I love your videos. Never stop doing KZbin!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

I'm really enjoying it, thanks Ana.

[@rob5582]

All you have to do is show up to class on time, conplete homework before class starts, and finish your projects. The moment you mess up one of the first two, you need to study to make up for it. My sim never needs to study, and honestly this is how university worked in real life for me too! One thing I wish was clearer is that electives count towards your degree. I was hoping it would lengthen my degree but nope.

[@marshapple]

Thankfully, all my roommates are always studying. Also, two of my rommates are very good chefs. Yea, they leave a mess every now and again, but it is always quiet in the dorm.

[@gaga4presidente]

i used the mod that makes tuition 10x more and i LOVE IT. it costs like $14000 for 4 classes.

[@Hope-un5wv]

Thanks for mentioning the super long loading screens. It took me back to the days of zx81. I now use the time to make a cup of tea.

[@stormytempleton4372]

I genuinely have my sim currently working on her third distinguished degree. I turned off aging and plan on getting all of them.

[@babygurleatsshickennuggits4201]

How'd it work out?

[@Mtkrvi06]

I carried a mathematical diagram in my inventory that my sims mom painted....I hung it up wherever I needed it. I also took metals and crystals from the household inventory box where mom had collected a ton growing up as a teenage witch on her own :) Something odd that happened when my sim went home to cook a meal....my own mom stopped me and told me I was being inappropriate. :/ idk why that bugged me but it did lol. I had to grab the trait for always welcome? In my own home! Also....those dang sprites bugged the heck out of me with the secret order. If I didn’t have time to entertain them, they would get mad and then bug me so badly I missed a class because it kept cancelling the action to go. Don’t even get me started on my disappearing presentation board. My first trip to Uni was frustrating...but she still managed an A. The crazy thing is that she was a perfect toddler, perfect HS student. She had scouts trait. She was primed and ready for college and I still didn’t get her honors. Her twin starts next. Now that I know more I will do it differently.

[@Travelenthusiastrk28]

This university is straight up a reflection of university in real life and it hurts to think about that

[@Miandey]

I found riding a bike fills my fun up right away. Thank you for another good video :)

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Ah yeah, and someone else mentioned the soccer ball as helpful.

[@ema8413]

Helps a lot to be a witch sim in uni. Learn to make food appear and the cleaning and fixing spell. It was so much easier.

[@TheCinnamondemon]

lol my sim had to quit soccer after her first semester with one F and one D. then i got it together and got all A's. but it's too realistic, there's like no free time and all my sim does is homework, studying, and writing papers in her room :( in sims 2, they would have keg parties every other day and join a frat lol

[@futurelawyernyc]

Mariam Diallo i miss sims 2 mascots always fighting

[@nickycat101]

The calendar is great, definitely use it.

[@anaa8989]

TIP: If you want to know where you have your classes, just click on a rabbit hole building and select "attend office hours" and it will display what classes you have there.

[@Mistysmudge1]

I am loving this pack, I stick to 2 lessons and I elective. I get my Sims to level 3 or 4 in the research and debate, and study in lots with the study spot 😉 I started using teleport too, especially in the Foxbury area, all those steps and the camera goes weird. I love the clubs too, loving the robotics skill (now that my sim is high level, I can now make the robo arm when I get back in game and get the parts made. There are problems like the timings are well out, it’ll say lesson at 3pm, but won’t come up till 4.30 and say lesson starts in an hour lol 😂 sims can freeze or a skill gets stuck I got the map up and went to a different area and it was ok after. Not done the secret society, rather make bots or be in the spirit group. The classes are confusing, I write the times and days on a notepad lol 😂 Oh and it says you have 2 days left then the next day Is final exam day argh 😤 The spites sounds like a nightmare! Great vid 😁

[@Guevarak]

I stole the food that people left out and put it in my mini fridge so I always had cooked meals.

[@sarahrodrigues9849]

Same! Or I just put all of the food my roommates made in the fridge before it spoiled

[@Kennis_The_Menace]

your vids are always helpful

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Thanks for the kind words, Kenny!

[@miracle9445]

I forgot my sim had a presentation so yeah I need this video

[@kristindevies4008]

If you have a roomba, the dorm will stay cleaner. Also i added a bunch of garbage shoots to the common areas.

[@Dervraka]

Lol! One word, Vampire. University is so shockingly easy as a Vampire, no need to sleep or eat (or even bath or socialize if you get that vampire trait), a dorm full of human cattle....I mean roomates....to satisfy your thirst. In fact I got all the homework done, the term paper to excellent and the presentation finished before the first class ever started, then it was just a matter of going to class and doing the extra homework now and then. Only thing I would recommend is leveling up your vampire rank enough to get the sun proof trait as my Vampire gal had a stupid tendency to wander outside and sit in the sun between classes

[@stillinhere]

Grumpy Carl's LP is best LP.

[@PaoSixx]

I asked a teacher how was I doing once, he told me not to worry, that I just had to keep doing what I was doing (every homework, never missed a class) and that was the only subject I got a lower grade (lower than A+). I graduated with honors though, and started my career as a lawyer, missing the chance to start as a judge. Oh well.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Yeah it's too bad that you have these situations where all A's seem to be robbed from you... I had it happen once. They made it harder since I covered it but I think this makes these tips all the more relevant.

[@ella_komiya]

Regarding the food,I purchased a small fridge and put all the plates of food that was brought from the housemates into the fridge.

[@leah5580]

I often forget to leave a like on videos even when I enjoy them, but your rant about that disgusting man and the baked goods got me laughing so hard I had to remember to hit like for once.

[@waste_of_grace]

You can also pack a sack lunch to eat between classes if you have parenthood!

[@MidnightAura86]

I ordered the crystals on the pc and used it for the secret society. Great video!

[@disturbedpanda5663]

Trust me my sim is over powered with traits I don't have to worry about anything and I find getting an a is easy when you do 1 class a week but it's just long and some time my sim misses half there final exam and end up failing so I find it easy to move another sim to a diffrent lot and then it makes the sime that's on the lot youre not at instantly go to class you just have to make sure youre ready to make them take notes

[@mysticalmaid]

Learning some new tips, thanks! Always a pleasure to listen to.

[@aprilstino6519]

Thank you for all the guides and videos.

[@Nihilist_Porcupine]

Interesting that the study spot trait is so great. I wonder if it's even more powerful if you add the peace and quiet lot trait on top of it?

[@JamesFluker]

I wondered if the lot trait that helps writers would help with writing a term paper?

[@ashleymariah95]

@@JamesFluker A way to get them to speed up their term paper or homework, max out the research and debate skill because it makes them doing school work a lot faster.

[@Moonlight-x5z]

After all that studying you got nothing but F on the work. Sounds like my homework through middle school. Also maybe vampire teens can help cause they can’t get tired and they don’t need bathroom.

[@AmberZak83]

General advice. Turn off holidays if you have seasons. I had a sim getting an A+ average. But her last exam didn’t happen because it fell on a season holiday. So she failed. Then got an A overall.

[@PositivelyNice]

Holiday did not affect my school days in university at all.

[@AmberZak83]

PositivelyNice it seems to be specific holidays. I found a thread talking about it and they were saying that Christmas didn’t affect it but thanksgiving did. It was a bit of a fluke but basically thanks giving fell on the same day as my last class was and I didn’t notice so she didn’t automatically go to class. It then said ‘next class in 4 days’ but end of term was one day. So it took it that I didn’t do the final exam and had to redo the module.

[@nobitsnoshoes]

riding the bike is a major fun boost

[@markabele8794]

Great guide. I learned a lot of useful tips.

[@cyberpinkgalaxy]

😂 the sprites lmao

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Had a lot of fun writing that bit.

[@watchulookinat271]

Dang they actually put efforts in this one

[@wingweaver415]

if you have RoM, you can also just cast delicioso and eat food that way if you are at the library.

[@zincsulfide8001]

This is helpful, but I would still let my sims suffer. Simply because there’s no way I’m getting my sims easy strait A while I am working my skin off in real life 😏

[@svogel6459]

ok but is anyone else getting spammed with food and garbage piles????? every hour or so a woman comes in and leaves a plate of cookies or lobster or a whole ass chicken and leaves immeditately. And the garbge piles just seem to spawn out of nowhere, I haven't caught them spawning yet so I don't why they are even there.

[@khowler]

Carl, have you confirmed that flirting with your professor increases your grade chances? Seems a lot of simmers are flirting with their professors lately. LOL

[@ilikerosesandchocolate6877]

There was an ad for university before this video

[@gdwitch]

Always so helpful. Thank you!

[@Wintermist-SWE]

Did you know you can mouse-over the suitcase in the bottom right of the UI to see whenever the next class is coming up? I use that quite a bit to know chich homework I need to do first.

[@MrGrape-ru2lt]

Great video Carl!

[@MissRoux]

Hi Carl! I have a question about the renting/roommates feature of this pack. Let's say I have one Sim, living in a house/apartment and I want to rent a room. Can I ask another Sim of my preference to live as a roommate and paying me rent or it has to be only through the ad service (and chose from the people who show up)? I know you addressed this in your guide, but I just wanna double-check. Thank you in advance. Your work and attention to detail are amazing!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

I haven't actually tested it yet but you're supposed to be able to ask other Sims if they'd like to be your roommate, and having a family at home either makes this more difficult or impossible. I think it was just more difficult.

[@MissRoux]

@@CarlsSimGuides Thank you very much!

[@SomeLad12]

My laptop doesn’t even have a graphics card so I’m definitely going to cheat in the study spot trait lol.

[@vikkipinkfit6124]

I am finding it super hard to do this more than one class at a time for an A grade. First it seems glitched on Xbox where you’re sim doesn’t go to class automatically and by the time you get them there the class is over (even with the bike). And then I do all the papers and homework and end up on probation anyways. So annoying.

[@gabbyparr6099]

You were hilarious in this video 😂🙌🏼

[@TalyTea]

Unfortunately I decided to get Discover university during the shitshow we have right now and it was an awful experience lmao. At first it was going well. My sim had her twin brother with her and it was fun. She had the adhd trait. I dont know which mod adds it but its me so she needed a bit more babysitting to get things done (although I feel that trait is a bit overdone. I have ADD and I dont stop cooking as soon as I start) Then the clay appeared. I noticed she stopped doing homework to play with clay. I made her stop. 10 minutes later her inventory was filled with clay. I look around the dorm hall and theres clay everywhere. Its on the floor on desks there was even clay in the showers. She started eating a lot. Even when she wasnt hungry. So she got that debuff. With everything going on i figured whatever ill just get a damn stove with enable free build. So she wouldnt get the debuff. 10 more minutes pass and the enitre dorm hall is FILLED with cake and mixing bowls. With all these bugs going on uni is a nightmare lol. Oh and our toliets caught fire too. So... Yeah... Hear o

[@maddu2278]

Idk why but I watched this video 28372617 times and I still watching. IT'S SO GOOD

[@ChibiDoodlebug]

If sprites are pestering you, you can do some yoga to get rid of them faster!

[@librasnaturalhabitat]

If you offer normal food to the statues you will still get the focus noodles but you won’t get offered to the club

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

"focus noodles" was probably an auto-correct but it made me smile, thank you (also good info)

[@librasnaturalhabitat]

SomeoneBeginingWithI 😭😭 I meant moodlets

[@Queenjadegemforever]

If you email your teacher and they say you have the highest grades in the class, you pretty much dont have to do more to get an A+.

[@Fozzybear982010]

Riding a bike seems to increase their fun bar quickly.

[@docette2015]

I have to admit, the lack of a progress bar for your grades is -- puzzling. I mean, I know we had it in Sims 2, and I'm pretty sure we had it in Sims 3, so why not in Sims 4? If we have a bar showing our performance at WORK. . . But anyway, some good tips to get the most out of going to college -- good to see more of what the Secret Society looks like too! I am intrigued. . .

[@Richter8]

I jumped in blind, but having magic helped a looooot.

[@playlisttarmac]

Lol when I hear all the talk of having a debt for university (college) I am screaming in my head - not all countries do it the same way as the US. In Australia - yes we pay BUT it is then repaid as a percent of your wage. If you become a low wage earner you may never pay it back. However most end up paying it back in a decade.

[@midnightcitizens]

One of the things that annoy me the most with this pack is the fact that , of a household of two sims? If both go to Uni then they sell the house. Which doesn't make sense... Plus it's annoying when the sims don't go to class even though it's time for it. I wish there was an easier way to send them to class.

[@Somebodyelse141]

Adding to the class thing, if a Dom lives off-campus and you take them to campus for class, if you switch to another sim while they're in class THEY LEAVE. It's so frustrating! I already can't take advantage of the study spots on campus because I have a whole family and if I take them start their homework then go to another sim they'll stop studying! Sims 3 was so much better when it comes to playing sims in different locations

[@Draconicrose]

Does being focused affect homework, presentation, term paper, and studying speed?