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.
![Two college sims hanging out at the bar off campus](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/0228-08.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
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.)
![Sim doing a keg stand Discover University](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/0228-06.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
Feeling sheepish, I only enrolled Darren in two courses for his second term.
![Sim doing a keg stand Discover University](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/0228-05.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
And I made sure he finished all his homework first, before having fun.
![Discover University sim doing college homework](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/0228-07.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
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.
![Satisfied Sims 4 gnomes](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/0228-01.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
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.
![Sim locked out of his own dorm](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/0228-03.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
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.)
![Sim yarnbombing college statue](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/0228-10.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
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.
![Yarnbombed statue The Sims 4](https://i0.wp.com/thesplinesfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/0228-09.png?resize=600%2C449&ssl=1)
Does this mean that I’m in The Sims 4? Because it feels like this means I’m in The Sims 4.
I love it! Could you make him yarnbomb a little tree just for old time’s sake?
I’m so sad you can only yarnbomb a single object! Maybe with that upcoming Arts & Crafts stuff pack, they will let us yarn bomb other things?