Academic Probation

When the end of Darren’s first term at the Foxbury Institute came around, I was so smug! I mean, I knew he hadn’t aced all his final exams and term papers. But I figured he would at least get a B in his classes.

Nope! Not even close. He got two Fs and a D.

Aside from being straight up embarrassing, this meant that he only earned one course credit after taking three courses. (If you fail a class, you don’t get credit for it.)

Feeling sheepish, I only enrolled Darren in two courses for his second term.

And I made sure he finished all his homework first, before having fun.

Although it’s a little hard to study when your dorm mates come into your room and just, like… stare at you for hours at a time.

Harvest Festival hit in the middle of the term. Darren’s only goal for the festival was to satisfy gnomes, since all the other goals can’t be done in a university dorm.

Thank you once again to the Under the Plumbob Podcast for this handy infographic on what gnomes want! At least ONE THING went right this term.

I had a weird glitch this week. Darren couldn’t enter his own dorm. Any time I tried to make him go home, he just stood outside the door and complained.

I sent him to another lot, and when he came back, he was able to enter his dorm again.

I call this the “jiggle the handle” method of troubleshooting technology. It works surprisingly well. (I spent the better part of a decade as a Linux/Unix sysadmin.)

This week I learned that Sims can yarnbomb the statue in the middle of campus! I was pretty excited, since I kind of started that whole thing.

Does this mean that I’m in The Sims 4? Because it feels like this means I’m in The Sims 4.