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[lavender-noire]

Welcome to the thunderdome!

🐝 Call me Bee (she/her) 🐝

I'm a mother, writer, and artist. I've been playing Sims 2 for 20 years. Along the way, I've made some stuff you might like:

🎓 University Challenge 🎓

✨ 500 Random Events | Aspiration Archetypes ✨

✍🏾 A Pleasant Place | Downloads | CC Resources ✍🏾

If you're feeling particularly generous, you can support me or commission me.

If you want something you can't find, feel free to ask.

Be well. 🐝 💕

[lavender-noire]

How big are y'all's downloads folders? I realized mine was 14gb and am finally paring down.

[naterxandersims]

Sims 2 Bonus Items Master Post

I’ve uploaded every Sims 2 bonus item from various different places into compilations so you can download them all much, much easier. I’ve reorganized everything as well so you can find specific files more efficiently. All items have been updated and fixed as needed.

Store Items - DOWNLOAD

Pre-order Items - DOWNLOAD

Miscellaneous Items - DOWNLOAD

Also, in case anyone missed them before, I have the Sims 2 Prima eGuides HERE.

[naterxandersims]

Updated the links as they were broken for some.

[lavender-noire]

To be honest, if you lighten any premades’ skin color I’m unfollowing you.

[lavender-noire]

This includes in fan art by the way 💕

And if I see any colorist and/or racist shit on your blog, know that I'm blocking you and wishing you the life you deserve (which is hot garbage 💕 ✨)

[megamassikalove]

I wanted a new lumberjack outfit, but once retexturing I just can't stop... So I ended up with 20 recolors.

The mesh is a 4t2 conversion of @marvinsims SuspenderShirt, a 4t2 conversion of @darte77 HighTopBoots, and the pants of @mdpthatsme JulieJ SP10 JeanSkinny.

I made it for adult males and teen males. Has fatmorph for both and pregmorph for adults only. Compressed, categorized as everyday.

DOWNLOAD SFS Adult

DOWNLOAD SFS Teen

[megamassikalove]

4t2 Penelopedress for toddlers

Original by @georgiaglm, with TS2 maryjanes.

Everyday, girl-only. 7 original colors + 3 by me.

DOWNLOAD SFS

[kaluxsims]

I took a bit of a...well, not a break, but a slowdown this month. Between working on the Traditional Bedroom, sinus problems, and personal life stuff, this is only my second new CC post since that absolute flood around Halloween. I wanted something quick, preferably with the meshes already converted. This collection by @its-adrienpastel has two familiar meshes, autumnal colors...perfect. I'll do more of that collection eventually, because we always need more kid clothes, but for now here's just a little of it.

Looks familiar, right? I've actually converted recolors for @deedee-sims' shirt-only edit of Skittles' 4t2 SP18Blouse before. And I think we all have either @keoni-chan's 4t2 EP11DressRuffle or DeeDee's child version, maybe both. These Adrien Pastel recolors bring moody harvest colors to these charming meshes. Think of this as a Thanksgiving mini set, if you like.

DressRuffle is available for toddlers and kids. Toddler dresses are PF only, with 512x512 dress textures. Kids are CU (unisex, like all of my kids stuff for a while now), both full outfit and top-only for the dresses, with fat morphs. Everything is set as Everyday.

No major mesh edits, but I did smooth out some very minor seams on the dresses. My edits have the same file names as the originals. You probably won't even see a difference. I'm just trying to banish TS4 seams from my own game.

Blouse swatches:

Dress swatches:

Download:

Bethan Dress CU: SFS or MediaFire Bethan Dress PF: SFS or MediaFire Priscilla Blouse: SFS or MediaFire

Credits: @its-adrienpastel for TS4 recolors, @keoni-chan for 4t2 EP11DressRuffle mesh, @deedee-sims for CU meshes, skittlessims (retired) for 4t2 SP18Blouse, @julietoon-ts2 for 4t2 boots (child version by DeeDee)...I think that's everyone

I keep saying I'll never fully escape EP11 stuff and it keeps being true! Also, I love how much that last blouse swatch looks like a New Order album cover.

[megamassikalove]

Another conversion from the FirstFits kit.

4t2 SP23Pantslace: everyday / outerwear, unisex, has fatmorph, 9 original colors, combined with SP23Workboots (might have adjusted the colors of these).

DOWNLOAD SFS (pants)

4t2 SP23ShirtTwist: everyday, girls-only, has fatmorph, 10 original colors.

DOWNLOAD SFS (top)

thanks to 4t2 database

[megamassikalove]

4t2 Horse Ranch Pants and Buttonup Shirt (seperates)

Such a lovely style ❤.

Pants mesh is with two shoes: EP14BootsTooled or EP03Designer. You can have both or choose one.

T-shirt is tucked at waistline, but should also work with lower waistlines.

Pants: everyday/outerwear, has fatmorph, all original colors.

Shirt: everyday/formal, has fatmorph, all original colors.

Both unisex.

DOWNLOAD SFS

credits: @mdpthatsme (shoes), @kaluxsims (for advice making sims look in camera)

[megamassikalove]

4t2 EP18 Summerset (separates)

Shirt and shorts, from the latest EP. The shorts come with flip flops, but I also added a barefoot version (same mesh, texture of barefoot repo'd to flip flops).

Shirt: unisex, categorized as everyday, gym, PJ's and underwear, has fatmorph, comes in 12 original colors.

Shorts: unisex, flip flop as everyday and gym, barefoot as PJ's and swimwear. Has fatmorph, comes in 12 original colors.

DOWNLOAD SFS | Mediafire

[megamassikalove]

4t2 EP18 SweaterOutfit

Another toddler outfit from the latest pack. Warm sweater outfit combined with loafers.

Categorized as everyday and formal, I chose boys-only, all 12 original colors.

DOWNLOAD SFS | Mediafire

[deedee-sims]

@monilisasims 4t2 Caio Nancy Dress made top-only (requested by @poushina)

More top-only dresses, yay 🥳 For adults and teens, they have the appropriate morphs. They come in the original 45 colors (swatch is stolen). And you can choose if you want the TF files repo'd to the AF files, or not. This is the first time I used the Repository Wizard, so tell me if something's not working 😅

Download Caio Nancy Dress Top-Only AF - Alternate

Download Caio Nancy Dress Top-Only TF Repo'd - Alternate

Download Caio Nancy Dress Top-Only TF Standalone - Alternate

[deedee-sims]

Skittlessims 4t2 GP10 Dress for toddlers

The toddler version is done and cute! I paired it with Memento's 4t2 shoe conversion. Comes in the original 12 colors and yay :)

Download - Alternate

[deedee-sims]

4t2 @trillyke Flower Rhythm Skirt

Summer skirts! This was quite a challenge, as it is tattooered (by @paluding) to Trapping's / Cat Of Evil Genius's alpha skirt mesh. I did the shoeswap to these H&M sandals, though.

For teens, adults, and elders, they have the appropriate morphs. They come in the original 30 colors, and you can choose if you want the other ages repo'd to the AF files, or not :)

Download Trillyke Flower Rhythm Skirt Repo'd - Alternate

Download Trillyke Flower Rhythm Skirt Standalone - Alternate

[lavender-noire]

🎓✨ The Sims 2 University Challenge

It's often said that doing something that makes you uncomfortable means you're growing. University takes that uncomfortable period of growth and development and extends it by years and compounds it with social pressure and financial debt. Welcome to the University Challenge!

This challenge seeks to increase engagement, difficulty, and storytelling opportunities for players of The Sims 2. Herein you'll find a set of rules, events, and randomized scenarios to help make the most of your sims’ university experience.

✂️ More details under the cut ✂️

Admissions 📝

In order to attend college, the following Base Admission Conditions must be met:

The college applicant must have $5,000 (scholarships and financial gifts from friends and family can contribute to this amount, otherwise it MUST be taken from household funds)

The college applicant must have a grade of C or higher

The college applicant must have at least five skill points in any area

The college applicant must be no fewer than 6 days from adulthood and no more than 7 days from adulthood

If all of the above base admission conditions are met, then congratulations! Your sim is going to a university like Sim State University.

For an additional challenge, there are gradations for college admissions rules. Those listed above are the base rules of admission, meaning they're the bare minimum requisites for attending college.

For an added admission challenge, here are the Technical School Admissions Conditions:

The applicant must have $10,000 (scholarships and financial gifts from friends and family can contribute to this amount, otherwise it MUST be taken from household funds)

The applicant must have no lower than a B grade

The applicant must have specialization (8 skill points or more) in the mechanical or logic skill

The applicant must be no fewer than 6 days to adulthood and no more than 7 days to adulthood

If all of the above conditions are met, then congratulations! Your sim is going to a Technical University like La Fiesta Tech.

Now, if your sim is an overachiever and wants to attend an upper echelon school, you'll want to follow the Ivy League Admission Conditions:

The college applicant must have $15,000 (scholarships and financial gifts from friends and family can contribute to this amount, otherwise it MUST be taken from household funds)

The college applicant must have an A grade

The college applicant must have specialization (8 skill points or more) in any one specific skill

The college applicant must currently be enrolled at a private school

The college applicant must be no fewer than 6 days from adulthood and no more than 7 days from adulthood

If all the above conditions are met, then congratulations! Your sim is going to an Ivy League university like Academie La Tour.

The three admissions conditions fit neatly with all three premade universities. For the purposes of this challenge, they are as follows:

Sim State University = Base Admissions

La Fiesta Tech = Technical School Admissions

Academie La Tour = Ivy League Admissions

These admissions rules are designed to provide a scaling challenge for those playing households with teens who are hoping to attend college. If you're having a hard time determining which kind of university you want your teen sim to attend, please consult the universities’ brochures:

Sim State University:

Considered the “party school”

Popular with sims with the Popularity, Pleasure, and Romance aspirations

Best for Art, Drama, Literature, and Philosophy majors

Prides itself on being the “economical choice” for higher education

La Fiesta Tech:

Considered the top choice school for STEM

Popular with sims with the Knowledge and Fortune aspirations

Best for Mathematics, Physics, Biology, and Psychology majors

Alumni are known for having sharp minds and good quality careers in science and technology

Academie La Tour:

World renowned university to society’s upper crust

Popular with sims with Popularity, Knowledge, Family, and Fortune aspirations

Best for History, Political Science, Economics, Psychology, and Literature majors

Many alumni are notable leaders in society including politicians, writers, and economists

Choose wisely! And best of luck with your young sims’ college applications.

Freshman Year 🎒

While every school is different, they all have one ironclad rule: every student must live in the dorms for Freshman year.

This is considered the “great equalizer” of university life. No matter the student’s background or personal wealth, they must share space with their fellow students in the dorms for their first year of college. This allows them to mingle with their peers, humble themselves, and eat the same food as everyone else in the dorm cafeterias. Students who choose to live independently for college may only do so beginning in Sophomore year.

Additionally, the first day of school is Orientation Day. All Freshman students are expected to go to the Student Center on their first day to mingle and get acclimated to their new environment.

Syllabus 🧾

To graduate, every student must achieve the following:

General Education completion (at least 4 points in every skill area)

Complete all eight semesters with a GPA of at least 2.5

Once these conditions are met, the sim may use the phone to petition for graduation and move back to the neighborhood of their choosing.

Your objective, naturally, is to ensure your college student satisfies these requirements over the course of their academic career. Now, if it were as simple as Orientation Day, Freshman Year in the dorms, four points in every skill, and maintaining a 2.5 GPA, that wouldn't be too much of a challenge, would it?

At 72 hours a semester over eight total semesters, there are 24 in-game days of university. Surely, you'll need smaller, shorter-term challenges to fill all that time. That's why I've written a curriculum.

Curriculum 🗓️

Below you'll find a list of simple daily prompts and scenarios to flesh out your sims’ university experience. All of them are contextual to the young adult life stage and university life overall. Feel free to choose which ones you'd like at will, or use a dice roller or number generator to randomize your experience. There are 150 in all, so no two university experiences will be exactly alike. My recommendation is to choose just one prompt per day of your sim’s college experience, but you can choose as many as you like.

The prompts are as follows:

Office Hours: Your professors have open office hours today. Call them up and meet them at a community lot on campus to discuss your grade.

Cram Session: You’re feeling anxious about your grade and decide to spend the day studying. You can stop when your academic performance meter is full.

Oneshot: Complete your term paper by the end of the day.

General Education: Earn two points in any skill of your choice in support of the general education requirement.

Nerd Wrangler: Influence another student to complete your homework assignment for you.

Plagiarist: Influence another student to complete your term paper for you.

Freshman 15: Order a pizza to your living space and eat the whole thing (by yourself or with roommates).

Physical Education: Head to the campus gym and gain at least one body point.

Lap Swim: Head to the campus pool and swim until you gain at least one body point.

Astronomy 101: Use a telescope to observe the stars until one skill point is added to logic tonight.

Home Economics: Cook and serve a meal for the entire household today.

Chore Day: Tidy up the living space. Anything that needs cleaning must be cleaned by the end of the day.

Engineering 101: Repair everything broken in the household by the end of the day. No calling the repairman.

Kinesiology: Learn the physiology skill by the end of the day.

Music Theory: Play a musical instrument and earn a creativity skill by the end of the day.

Communications 101: Earn at least one charisma skill point by the end of the day.

Kickback: Throw on some music and invite at least two sims over for a kickback at your place. Do your best to keep the vibe chill.

Ceramics: Purchase a pottery wheel and make something at least decent for your ceramics class.

Robotics: Purchase a robotics bench and try to create something at least decent for your robotics class.

Engineering: Purchase a toy making bench and try to create something at least decent for your engineering class.

Horticulture: If possible, start a garden at your living space. If not, then create one on a campus lot and go visit to plant and tend the garden there.

Study Session: Go with at least one other sim to the library for a joint study session.

Open Mic Night: Perform on the mic at a community lot.

Bar Crawl: Enough studying. Head out to at least two bars tonight, get drinks, dance, and generally let loose.

Dine Out: Head out to a community lot for a meal today.

Dine In: Order in for a meal today.

Campus Liaison: Head to the Campus Center and make friends with someone there.

Speech and Debate: Make a public speech at a community lot on campus.

Coffee Break: Do a homework assignment at a coffee shop today. Make sure to purchase a coffee for yourself.

Rager: Go all out for the quintessential college party today. Buy a keg. Buy a bubble blower. Turn up the tunes. Invite at least four people over and have the kind of night you won't remember in the morning.

Shoot Your Shot: Ask out a sim you have decent chemistry with.

Chess Club: Play chess with another sim on a community lot.

Psychology 101: Learn the lifelong happiness skill by the end of the day.

Health & Safety: Learn the fire safety skill by the end of the day.

Outdoor Education: Go to a community lot with a lake or pond and go fishing for the day.

Work Experience: Start a business of any kind on the home lot or on a community lot.

Birthday Suit: Head to a campus community lot and streak.

Friends in Down Low Places: Seek out a secret society member and make friends with them.

Visual Art: You have a project due for your visual art class today. Paint something halfway decent on canvas to complete the assignment.

Garage Band: Start a band with at least two friends.

Homesick: Call a family member on the phone.

Kick It: Visit a community lot and start a game of kicky ball.

Busker: Go to a community lot and play music for tips for a little extra cash.

Part Timer: Go work a shift at the local coffee shop for a bit of extra cash.

Family Day: Invite your family members over to your living space for a day of togetherness.

Old Friends: Invite over your closest childhood friend and show them what life is like at university.

Hook Up: Hook up with the sim you have the highest chemistry with.

Bumming It: Head out to a community lot and hang out with two sims you don't know well.

Branching Out: Make two new friends on a campus community lot.

Going Greek: Start or pledge a Greek House.

New Look: Get a new haircut and color that is drastically different from your current one.

Back to School Shopping: Revamp your wardrobe with five new tops and five new bottoms.

Spin This: Pick up some extra cash by djing at the local club.

Gone Clubbin’: Go out with your housemates to a dance club.

All Nighter: Stay up all night improving your grade. Begin by leveling up the requisite skills, then do homework assignments and the term paper. Only when the academic performance meter is totally full can you finally go to sleep.

Class Schmass: Skip class for the day and go to a community lot instead.

Old Stomping Grounds: Visit a community lot from your hometown with a new friend from college.

Get Out There: Go on a date with a romantic interest from college.

The Big Game: Go to the campus basketball court or soccer field to watch The Big Game be played.

Friends in High Places: Make friends with a student who is a member of a fraternity or sorority.

Remodel: Touch up your dorm room or living space to better represent your current interests and hobbies.

School Spirit: Make friends with your school mascot or cheerleader.

The Squad: You've decided to join the school cheer squad. Buy a cheerleader or mascot uniform and enthuse the student population with jokes, dance moves, and school cheers.

Burnout: You’ve been working so hard lately your brain is fried. Buy and use a bubble blower to find your zen again.

Bonfire Night: Throw a party with at least three guests and light a bonfire.

Pool Party: Head out to a local hangout and play pool with someone you aren't friends with.

Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti: Perform poetry at the local coffee shop.

Karaoke Night: It's time to blow off some steam with your friends. Head out to a community lot to sing karaoke.

Hookup Culture: Hook up with two different sims by the end of the day.

Animal House: Throw a toga party at your living space.

Proof of Life: Invite your parents or guardians over to enjoy a home cooked meal. (You have to cook it).

Counterculture: In your studies, you've become enamored with counterculture. Make changes to your hair, makeup, and clothing to fit either the goth, hippie, or beatnik aesthetic.

The Fundamentals: Complete all the skills needed for this semester by the end of the day.

Accountability Buddy: Go with a friend to the gym and don't leave until you’ve earned a body skill point.

Horticulture 102: Buy a flower arranging station and produce something beautiful to turn in for your horticulture class.

Textiles 101: Buy a sewing machine and get started on a project for your textiles class.

Pick Up Artist: Go to a community lot. Choose someone and seduce them into coming home with you.

Jacuzzi: Buy a hot tub for your living space.

Grand Tour: Call up a teenaged relative or friend and give them a tour of the campus (visit two or more community lots on campus with them).

Physical Education 102: Do yoga with at least two other sims on a campus community lot.

Physical Education 103: Go hiking with two other sims from your living space or around campus.

The Big Show: Go to a campus community lot to watch live music be performed. Speak to at least two other sims while you're there.

Metal Shop: Work on a junk car to satisfy your metal shop professor.

Study Buddies: Get the whole household involved in a study session. Order pizza while you're at it.

Foster Independence: If you're past your freshman year, move out into your own space.

Time May Change Me: Change your aspiration to best reflect the person you've grown into through your college experience.

But I Can't Trace Time: Go out and share a meal with the oldest sim you’re related to. Talk to them and get some much needed life advice.

Splurge: Spend $1,000 on anything you like.

Spree: Spend $5,000 on anything you like.

In Excess: Spend $10,000 on anything you like.

Experimental: Kiss a friend.

Prankster: Play a prank on all of your housemates.

Spring/Summer/Winter Break: Celebrate your hard work and whatever season it is with a vacation for you and at least one guest of your choosing.

Biology Fieldwork: You've been tasked with doing fieldwork for your biology class. Go to the local park and birdwatch, catch bugs, and go fishing.

Cosmetology: Buy a salon chair and get to work on at least five sims to satisfy your cosmetology professor.

Brown Noser: Take your professor out to a meal in the hopes of improving your grade.

Study Abroad: You just got approved for your study abroad program! Take a trip to the location of your choice and immerse yourself in the local culture. Eat at least one local dish, learn the local greeting, and learn the local dance.

Swamped: You're so busy with classes and assignments that all of your meals will have to be eaten on community lots today. All studying will have to be done on community lots, too.

Out and About: All skill points earned today must be earned on community lots.

Join the Club: Invite a fellow student to live with you.

Commemoration: Have a photo taken or portrait painted of you and all of your housemates together. Make sure to hang it up somewhere in the living space.

Schism: Start an argument with your best friend. Keep going until 10 relationship points have been lost.

Bone to Pick: Start an argument with the student you have the lowest relationship with.

Study Date: Ask a sim out on a date at a community lot. During the date, you must complete one homework assignment.

Barback: Work a shift serving up drinks for a little extra cash.

Miss Major: Call up the registrar’s office and change your major. For added chaos, roll a dice to determine your new major.

Night Out: Go out with your housemates to a campus community lot and don't come back until 4:00am.

Lit Mag: You've joined the university literary magazine and it's your job to do the final edit. Write a novel on the computer with the title of the campus literary magazine. Keep working until it's published!

Photography Showcase: Take no fewer than 5 photos around campus and get them published in time for your photography showcase. Put them up in your living space when complete.

A Gamble: Go out to a community lot and gamble using a poker or mahjong table. Don't leave until you're up 200 simoleons.

Scientific Journal: Your research team has completed their work and it's your job to compile all the data into one place. Write a novel with the title of your research project and don't stop until it's complete.

Work-Study: Work in the dorm cafeteria for some extra cash.

Networking: Make friends with one wealthy fellow student by the end of the day.

Student Government: You've joined the student government. Go down to a popular campus community lot and make friends with two fellow students.

Campus Festival: Throw a party at the Student Union or Campus Center.

Sleepover: Invite a sim who doesn't live with you to spend the night in your living space.

Influencer: Influence every one of your housemates to do a household chore or homework assignment for you. If you don't have housemates, invite some friends over and have them do your bidding.

Homebody: Exhausted by the goings on at university, you've decided to spend the day doing absolutely nothing. Get in your comfiest clothes, watch a movie, play some games, and vegetate.

Soccer Team: You've joined the university soccer team. Buy yourself a uniform, create a social group with your fellow teammates, and go play the game on a community lot.

Swim Team: You've joined the university swim team. Buy yourself a swimsuit, create a social group with your teammates, and go swimming with them at the campus pool.

Basketball Team: You've joined the university basketball team. Buy yourself a new athletic outfit, make a social group with your teammates, and meet up for practice at the campus basketball court.

Growing Pains: With all these new experiences, you've found you've outgrown your relationship. If you're in a relationship, break up with your partner.

Overload: You're way too stressed out for school today. Skip class, don't do your homework, and don't build any skills whatsoever today.

Shopping Spree: Spend $2000 on new clothes today.

Credit Card Abuse: Spend $5000 on new clothes today.

Shopaholic: Spend $10000 on new clothes today.

Wellness Check: Your family is coming by to see how you're doing. Make sure your living space is clean and any incriminating evidence is put away, then invite them over. Introduce them to your housemates while they're there.

Broke: You've budgeted poorly and have no cash to spend today. Bills can't be paid, groceries can't be bought, and you certainly can't afford to go out. Do what you can to survive on zero dollars for the day.

Life Drawing: You've agreed to model for a life drawing course at your school. Have the housemate with the highest creativity skill paint you in whatever outfit and pose you choose. If you have multiple skilled artists in the house, have all of them paint you at different angles.

Make Nice: Make friends with one of your housemates.

Problematic: Make enemies with one of your housemates.

Feeling Generous: Give unique gifts to all of your housemates.

Show Gratitude: Invite your family members over for a meal. Gift each of them unique gifts to show your gratitude.

Geek Squad: Host a LAN party with some folks who like the game.

Occult Interest: Make friends with one of the local witches.

It's Not a Phase: Get a piercing.

Art on your Sleeve: Get a tattoo (I like using Deedee's tattoo boxes).

The Responsible One: Buy groceries for your household, pay the bills, and do some cleaning up. It's hard to live on your own for the first time, but you're glad to be the responsible one this time around.

Fed Up: Sick of the poor cleaning habits of your housemates, you've decided to buy the services of a maid. Do so using the phone.

About Time: Ask the unrelated sim you have the highest relationship with out on a date.

Last Ditch Effort: Try to seduce your professor to get a better grade.

Mistakes Were Made: Hook up with the sim you have the lowest chemistry with.

Give Love a Chance: Hook up with the sim you have the highest chemistry with.

Radicalized: Give yourself a goth or punk makeover.

Music Appreciation Capstone: Perform live music for a crowd.

Culinary Arts Capstone: For your culinary arts course, you must make the best meal you know how to cook and submit it for judging in a cooking competition.

Extra Terrestrial Club: As a new member of the Extra Terrestrial Club, you're expected to gaze at the stars using a high quality telescope from nightfall to sunrise.

Environmental Club: As a member of the university Environmental Club, make a social group with other members and meet at a public park with a pond or lake. Fish in the pond or lake to clear out as many boots as you can in five hours.

The Cool Kids: Throw a party and invite the two most popular/wealthy fellow students you know in the hopes they show up.

Film Studies: Invite over a few classmates from your film Studies class to watch a film in any genre of your choosing.

Graduation 🎓

Upon successful completion of the final exam and satisfaction of the two graduation prerequisites:

General Education completion (at least 4 points in every skill area)

Complete all eight semesters with a GPA of at least 2.5

Then your sim is ready to graduate!

If you care to, throw them a graduation party. You can even book a vacation to celebrate the occasion and simulate a gap period trip for the sim to gain some life experience before joining the workforce.

Decide during the window between graduation and move out day whether they'll be moving back in with family, living with roommates, or living independently. I trust you to know what's best for your sims, but if you prefer to let the universe decide, here are some lists to help you roll the dice.

How will your sim celebrate graduation?

Party with friends and housemates

Party with friends and family

Party with family

A vacation

No celebration, just move out

How will your sim be living once they leave campus?

Living alone in an apartment or house

Living with roommates in an apartment or house

Moving back in with family members

Living with a partner or partners in an apartment or house

And with those final decisions made, congratulations! You've guided your sim through university and have a new graduate with a bevvy of life experience under their belt. Be sure to update their bio section with any character or storytelling changes that occurred during their time at school.

For a list of honors (and definitely things to add to their character bios for storytelling purposes), see the Honors section.

Honors 🌟

The following are superlatives, honors, and achievements that sims can earn through taking certain actions in their university experience:

Valedictorian: Graduate with a perfect 4.0.

WED Degree: Meet and at least get engaged to your spouse at university.

Changed Person: Leave college with a different aspiration than you arrived with.

Party Animal: Leave college having thrown at least ten roof raisers.

Summa Cum Loudly: Leave college having hooked up with at least 20 different sims.

Greek God: Leave college having started a Greek House that lives on after your graduation.

Young Entrepreneur: Leave college having earned $10,000 from part time work and/or an owned business.

Affable Academic: Meet and become BFFs with someone you met at college.

Dropout: Earned by flunking out of college.

International Student: Earned by visiting all three vacation destinations during their years at college.

Scraped By Scholar: Graduated with the absolute bare minimum grades necessary.

Tradesman: Earned at least three skill badges during their college years in addition to their general education requirements.

Family Planner: Had at least one child while still studying at college.

First Generation Graduate: Earned by being the first sim in their family tree to earn their degree.

Legacy Laureate: Earned by graduating from the same college their parent and/or grandparent graduated from.

Specialist: Maximize one skill while attending college.

Double Major: Maximize two or more skills while attending college.

Peak Performer: Fulfill a lifetime want while attending college.

And that's the TS2 University Challenge! It's my hope that it brings a lot of intrigue and fun to what many players can find to be a bit of a slog. If you have any suggestions for curriculum items, honors, or anything else, feel free to leave a comment. I'm happy to keep updating this challenge to make it as fun and complete as possible.

Be well! 🐝

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TS2 Grilled Cheese Archetypes

Grilled Cheese + Romance

The Way to their Heart: This sim believes that grilled cheese is the greatest aphrodisiac of all time. Every date they go on MUST have a grilled cheese element. And the go-to after woohoo snack? Also grilled cheese.

Grilled Cheese + Knowledge

The Menu: This sim is obsessed with creating the greatest grilled cheese sandwich of all time. They tirelessly study cooking and enter cooking contests in pursuit of creating the most incredible grilled cheese known to simkind.

Grilled Cheese + Family

Childhood Favorite: This sim has very fond memories of eating grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch and dinner when they were a child, and they'd like to pass that onto their young ones too. Every day, grilled cheese must be served either for lunch, dinner, or both.

Grilled Cheese + Fortune

Always Be Cheesing: When life gives you cheese, grill it. Some people have lemonade stands, this sim has grilled cheese stands. They think a good grilled cheese is the quickest and easiest way to their first million simoleons. They plan on opening a business that only sells grilled cheese.

Grilled Cheese + Popularity

H'ors D'Oeuvre: Somehow, this sim got it in their head that grilled cheese is the peak of fine party food. Any time they have a party, heaps of grilled cheese must be served. Yes, even at weddings and funerals.

Grilled Cheese + Pleasure

Glutton: Plain and simple: this sim likes grilled cheese. They like it so much they don't see the point of eating anything else. For every meal of the day, they will only eat grilled cheese.

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TS2 Pleasure Archetypes

Pleasure + Romance

1. Commitmentphobe: This sim is terrified of being tied down to any one person. They are not seeking a relationship of any kind, just a good time. Repeat dates are fine, but the minute the "what are we?" question arises, they bolt.

2. Hedonistic Hero: This sim loves having fun and woohooing is a LOT of fun. They're seeking to sleep with as many sims as they possibly can, whenever they can.

3. One Night Only: This sim is only interested in one night stands. Variety is the spice of life!

4. Exhibitionist: This sim REALLY likes to woohoo in public. It's a must have for their every intimate relationship.

5. Risky Woohooer: This sim loves to give love, but hates the feel of protection. Every woohoo is a "try for baby" woohoo.

6. Pickup Artist: This silver tongued sim believes they're only ever a few words away from spending the night with anyone they want. To test this theory, they try to take someone home every time they go out. 7. Hobosexual: Listen, housing is expensive and woohooing is free. This sim ensures they have a comfortable place to live by wooing other sims into relationships. They're not so much into the other person as they are into having a place to crash for a while. But hey, you can't beat woohooing and free rent.

Pleasure + Knowledge

1. Armchair Philosopher: This sim loves to discuss profound topics with others over drinks or a bubble blower.

2. Hobbyist: This sim focuses their brilliance through their special interest. They seek to maximize their hobby knowledge.

3. Gourmand: This sim is fascinated by the science of food and drink. They like to study the art of cooking, watch cooking shows, and most of all indulge in well made meals. They like to go out to eat as much as possible, as often as possible.

4. Groupie: This sim is most fascinated by live music. They seek out opportunities to perform and see live music as much as possible.

5. Platonic: Like the classical thinkers of old, this sim believes that it is not enough to have the biggest brain, they must also have the biggest muscles. They believe peak performance is achieved with a sharp mind and rock hard abs. They are as concerned with having a beautiful mind as they are with having a beautiful body.

6. Occult Aficionado: This sim loves anything odd, spooky, or strange. In fact, they're so wooed by weirdness that they simply can't be fulfilled unless they become something weird, themselves. A typical occult aficionado dreams of giving birth to an alien baby, getting bitten by a werewolf and/or vampire, photosynthesizing through their skin, and/or mastering magic. Y'know. Normal stuff. 7. Tinkerer: This sim may not be the best with people or necessarily the most ambitious, but they've always had a knack for doing things with their hands. They're happiest when they're creating, fixing, or breaking things, be them cars, gadgets, toys, or anything else they can get their hands on.

Pleasure + Family

1. One of the Kids: Always in touch with their inner child, this sim indulges with the youngest members of the family by watching cartoons, playing with toys, eating too much pizza, and generally being a big kid. They have a very hard time setting boundaries and disciplining.

2. Family Finder: This sim doesn't care much about the trappings of traditional families. Instead, their family is comprised of close friends, beloved pets, and maaaybe a blood relative or two. A family can be any collection of folks just getting along together under one roof.

3. The Cool Parent: Loud music, late nights, underage drinking, and mixed gender sleepovers. This sim's family philosophy is to just be cool. They'd never chastise the young people in their life or make them do anything they don't want to. The cool one's household runs on vibes.

4. Parentifier: This sim thinks children are something you have to ensure someone will alwwys take care of you, even in old age. They're content to leave the chores and general household upkeep to the kids in their life. It's what they're there for, right?

5. Late Bloomer: Perhaps too comfortable thinking of themselves as the child well into adulthood, this sim prefers the comforts of home and being doted on by their parents and other loved ones. They have no desire to leave the family home whatsoever.

6. Best Friend Family Member: Whether they're the cool aunt or the parent who feels more like a best friend, this sim is dedicated to fostering close ties and open, nonjudgmental communication with their family members. Of course, this means boundaries are muddled and sometimes younger members of the family can find themselves without an authority figure or voice of reason, but hey -- at least they have the best friend family member. 7. Free Spirit: No bedtimes, no curfews, no expectations, no rules, no worries. This sim believes that no one can tell anyone which path to walk or how to walk it, so they don't. They're extremely laissez-faire in their style of child rearing which can sometimes result in extremely creative and accomplished young people and other times in directionless or listless ones. One sim's "neglect" is another sim's freedom.

Pleasure + Fortune

1. Spoiled Rotten: The purpose of money is to be spent. Or at least, that's what this sim believes. Whether they have massive, generational wealth or just this week's paycheck, this sim wants to use every last bit of it to treat themselves all day, every day.

2. Expat: This sim considers themself to be a citizen of the world. They believe money is best spent on vacations to explore different countries and cultures as much and as frequently as possible. The majority of their funds go to globetrotting adventures.

3. Day Seizer: This sim takes "carpe diem" to the extreme. They live each and every day as if it were their last, fulfilling as many of their wants as quickly and as much as they can. No price is too high, no consequence too great. Life is for the living, and this sim is living in the here and now.

4. Materialist: This sim spends all their money on the creature comforts and collectibles that make life enjoyable. Multiple cars, high end PC, flat screen TV, hot tub, pinball machine, helicopter, home gym -- you name it, this sim either has it already or wants to add it to their collection.

5. Miser: This sim's money isn't going anywhere but in their pocket, thank you very much. They derive joy not from spending lavishly, but rather amassing as much money as possible. Some of that wealth can be tied up in assets, sure, but this dragon is happiest with a fat, golden hoard all their own.

6. VIP: Look, this sim really only cares about two things -- making money and having a good time. They don't want to work a boring job and they don't want to try too hard either. For them, the best resolution is to make play their work. They dream of running a hookah bar, sports bar, dance club, concert venue, spa, casino -- any place they want to spend their time, they're sure plenty of people will pay to spend time there too. And then it's like they're getting paid just to hang out. 7. Grifter: This sim knows you don't necessarily have to be the best at something to be successful at it, and thank goodness for that because they don't have the work ethic for all that. They're perfectly content to be a middling musician, artist, WHATEVER, just so long as it makes them a lot of money and isn't too hard.

Pleasure + Popularity

1. Attention Seeker: This sim craves attention at any cost. In any situation, they make the choice that will elicit the strongest reaction and center the spotlight squarely on themselves.

2. Party Animal: This sim thinks life is a party and never wants the fun to end. They throw parties most if not every day.

3. Mx. Congeniality: This sim has a desperate need to be liked by everyone. They want to be friends with literally everyone they meet.

4. Local Character: This sim loves the place they live and love getting to know the people in their community. They visit at least one community lot daily, and chat up at least two people while they're there.

5. Keyboard Charismatic: This sim has the most fun from the comfort of their home, but they still crave companionship. Most of their friends, they meet online.

6. Social Butterfly: This sim finds friends just kind of fall into their laps. They're the kind of people who make a new friend everywhere they go and always have a roster of folks to call in case a new club is opening up or they just want to throw a party. They're effortlessly fun to be around, and so there's always lots of people around. 7. Fairweather Friend: When the going gets tough, this sim takes off running. This sim is happy to surround themselves with lots of people for a good time and some shallow conversation, but they're out the minute someone starts crying, arguing, or asking for help moving. They're simply not interested (or not capable) of helping anybody with the tough stuff. They like to keep it light and fun at all times.