At this point I knew there'd be no more teens this round, so I decided to send the ones I had to college and put them in a dorm, so the current YAs could befriend and pledge them. But in order to get Lily Forsythe out of her housesitting duties, I had to graduate her big sister Bryony and move her home - and from there it was a small step to graduating the rest, as well, since it was mostly a matter of getting the grade meter up, then setting the clock forward. Not much in the way of pictures, then, but one or two things did happen...



For one thing, Janson Knight really hit it off with Marlee Dante, just as I had predicted he would. They're now an item, and she plans to move in with him once she graduates.



Um, yeah. Cow mascots are always creepy and annoying. I wouldn't want someone staring at me while I'm sleeping.



I didn't relish the idea of playing Sasha Dante as a romance sim any more than I had as a popularity sim, given her complete lack of outgoing and nice points, so she, um, had a little accident with the ReNuYu orb. Grilled cheese, baby!

Unfortunately, I had forgotten something.



What Sasha does have is maxed neat points! Eating one sandwich takes her forever - not to mention what happens if there are others seated at the same table - so just imagine how long it takes her to eat a whole platter of them...

I took her down to a community lot, because she was unhappy that nobody would talk to her about grilled cheese.



Just look how ecstatic she is to find somebody that will! And they have two bolts, to boot, which I don't think she's ever had with anybody before. A few dates, and they were in love, and he was dropping off expensive presents on the sorority porch.



A cafeteria worker and a grilled cheese sim = perfect match.



Moving over to the fraternity across the street, Jonah Black was invited to attend his son Ronnie's graduation. Weirdly enough, this fulfilled his LTW of graduating three kids from college, even though Ronnie is the first of his kids to do that! I've heard of a glitch that fulfills that LTW after two kids, but one? Weird. Unless the game counted his grandsons Face and Jackson as his children, somehow...



25 out of my 26 YAs graduated summa cum laude. The exception was Carmen Vega, which was entirely due to her grade meter bug earlier on, so I didn't hesitate to set her GPA to 4.0 using the college adjuster. (I haven't decided yet whether to score it, though.)

And now, it's time for the traditional parade of Badly Dressed Graduates.



Sasha has really let herself go since her aspiration change. And I'm not just talking about the extra weight, either.



Lexie Nottington apparently wants to be a flasher. That would be a no, Lex.



Janson Knight... made me laugh, I'll give him that much. Yeah, I'm scratching my head, too.



While Dolores Vega has apparently misunderstood the talk about Seasons, and thinks it means Christmas is around the corner.


Points: 25 or 26 for SCL graduates, 26 for BSOCs.




I can't believe this doesn't count as public woohoo...

Jonah and Katerina Black's two oldest children, Ronnie and Tamara - the adoptees - may be off at uni, but they still have the twins at home.



Keziah.



And Keren.



Jonah is a very proud papa in his old age, always talking about how well the children are doing.

"Oh, enough about the kids already, old man. Let's woohoo!"



Ahem. Yeah, Katerina isn't quite as focused on the children. She does love them, just in a slightly distracted kind of way.

"Hey! I work hard to put food on the table and clothes on their backs, don't I?"



She does indeed, and fulfills her LTW of being a business tycoon while she's at it.



Soon enough, it's time for the girls to grow up.



Keziah rolls popularity (sigh) with a LTW of having 20 best friends. She likes cologne and black hair, but dislikes beards. She's Pisces, 8/5/10/2/10, so at least she's not that shy, and those nice points should help with making friends. Maybe I can even get her her LTW in college, and then re-roll when she's already permaplat!

She also has a fashion sense very different from mine. What can I say, she liked it.



Keren is a fortune sim like her mother, and wants to be a doctor when she grows up. She's attracted to hats and fullface make-up, but not to brown hair. She's a Scorpio, 7/4/10/7/5. She immediately started rolling up wants for scholarships, and wanted to get a job, so here she is in her security guard uniform.



She also dated and went steady with the paperboy, Alon Livingston. They only have one bolt, but I'm sending him to uni anyway - I have plans for him...



Keziah prefers girls. Here she is with a shop clerk named Chris something, who has a weird ability.



She can be in two places at once!



"Must... get... scholarship..."

Keren and Keziah are ready for college, and just like their neighbors the Coopers, Jonah and Katerina will be moving to a bigger house. After all, they'll be joined by Ronnie and his fiancée by next round, and will need more room.

And so I leave you with a random pic from downtown of Marisa Knight beating up on some downtownie.




Points this round: 1, for Katerina's TOC/LTW.

Last week at the spin-off Cooper household, Sharlene was complaining that she and Terrence never spent any quality time together. If you know what I mean. Well, she was right, as I discovered to my shame when I did find them a couple hours. Terrence didn't even have the option to woohoo with his wife, that's how far I'd let their relationship slide! I'm a bad simmer.



But a little bit if this, and a little bit of that, and soon things were back on track.



Did I mention that Sharlene is a career criminal? Yep, she's yet another one of the many sims in Strawberry Fields who want to be evil Masterminds. Terrence has no moral objections, but he does worry.



"What if you get caught? What will Shayelle and I do without you?"



"I'm not going to get caught, silly. I'm too good for that. The Captain Heroes in this town are useless. Your brother Joel was the smartest of the bunch - which is saying something - and he gave it up when his wife died."



"And besides, even if they did manage to catch me, they'd never convict me."



Sharlene was right - nothing stood in her way to the top, and she reached that coveted permaplatness, even if she did have to work herself almost into the ground to get there.



Terrence keeps working on his own LTW of maxing all his skills. He's on his second career, medicine, and the career reward really helps. He'd probably be a lot closer if I didn't keep him stargazing every night, but hey, I have my priorities. He can still skill when he's too old to get impregnated by aliens.



But just like he made time for his wife, he manages to spend some time with his daughter.



And he's the parent who's there for her birthday.



Hey, she's cute. Not bad at all.

Shayelle rolled family, and her LTW is to be a Captain Hero. Let's hope Sharlene has left her life of crime before that happens, okay? Imagine having to arrest your own mother. Anyway, she's a Scorpio, 9/8/8/3/3, who likes blond or custom hair, but is turned off by fullface makeup.



Go away, Orlando.

"But there's a teenage family girl in this house! I always date the teenage family girls!"

Well, you don't get to date this one. You've had more than your share of girlfriends. Now go away!



Instead it's Alvin Futa who gets the honor of being Shay's first kiss. I wonder if she knows about his little fling with Lily Forsythe? Oh well, it's not like he's likely to come to college with them.



Shay gets along really well with Headmaster Vince. So well it's almost creepy. Future spouse? We'll see... There's something icky about the concept of a headmaster marrying a former student who he met when she was a teen, but I'm not ruling anything out at this point. If nothing else, she can introduce him to her friends, and maybe he'll hit it off with one of them.



Soon she has all her skill scholarships, as well as the one for her grades and one for reaching the top of the teen military career. It's college time! Meanwhile, Terrence and Sharlene will be looking for a new, bigger home, since this one is a bit on the cramped side, and Shay will be wanting babies once she graduates, family sim that she is.


Points this round: 1 or 2, career-related. Sharlene became a criminal mastermind, and Terrence a mad scientist (unless that was last week).

Another dorm...

This one holds one popularity sim, one pleasure seeker, and two romance sims. What on earth was I thinking?!?

Oh yeah, I was thinking they'd get along well. They did. But the constant dates, parties, and phone calls drove me nuts!



"We grew up well, didn't we, sis?"

Three of the Vega quads - the girls - are here, and Penelope Antonius. Let's run through them one by one.



Carmen dated Joel Cooper regularly. I just love their faces when exchanging this air kiss... Anyway, they're a two bolt couple, and she will probably be marrying him once she graduates.

She developed the stuck grade meter glitch - you know, the one where it looks like she doesn't have the skill points necessary, even though she does. Normally they'll get their A+ anyway, as long as they do their homework, but for at least one semeester Carmen didn't, and of course I didn't notice until after saving. Now her GPA is beyond recovery. Grrrr.



Otherwise she spent all her time on the phone, making friends. I should've just bought her a cell phone, but I never use the things, so it didn't occur to me. Instead the had to wait for her turn while the other girls spent hours chatting on the phone.



Dolores gets to represent the fact that all four girls got into the secret society. She's a pleasure sim who wants 50 dream dates, so she spent a lot of time at community lots with...



Ronan "Face" Black. Let's just pretend he isn't wearing Goopy's clothes, okay? He'll be buying new ones the second I get to his lot...

And why is Ethan so mortified by watching them make out in public? He's a romance sim! He's done the same with (more than) his fair share of women!



Speaking of faces... Yeah.



Mercedes dates a lot, too. She and Ramsey Bonaccord are a three-bolt couple, and I have sentenced them to staying faithful to each other. Most of the time, they don't seem to mind much.



It's only when I make them do stuff like get engaged... Well, neither had a fear of it at the time, so it really was just the red rings. A nice backrub - and what followed after that - made them forget all about it.



Penelope, the other romance sim, sees no reason to limit herself to one sim, though. First she moves in on the fifth person in the dorm, Travis here. He gets to be her first woohoo.



But there are plenty of others to follow.

Eventually, I got frustrated with my own stupidity at having gone for the dormie first. It made it that much harder for Pen to have other "friends" over. Combine that with Carmen's grade meter glitch, and my general dislike of dorms, and you get...



This little house, which I built for the four of them. It's basically just four small bedrooms, a kitchen, and a main living area, but it's all theirs!

And so all 26 of my college students have reached the halfway point. All of them have also become greek house members, secret society memebers, and big sims on campus - which means that from now on, I can just get their grades up and then fast-forward! Yay!