Puck Summerdream: Freshman Year

Puck Summerdream didn't get his full week when I played the Summerdreams, because he left the family home for college before the week was over. Therefore, we're here at Boggs Hall Dorms, the largest dorms at Veronaville's Académie Le Tour, to accompany him through his Freshman Year. 

Much to his dismay, Puck finds he has come dressed way too lightly - spring was well underway back home, but here at college, there is still plenty of snow and it is very cold. He doesn't have time to get changed, though, since class has already started, and he hurries off the lot.

Meanwhile, at the dorm Tybalt Capp his having his graduation party. His diploma says Magna Cum Laude, his Major was Politics. Here he is with his girlfriend Marla Biggs, who finished college ahead of him and has of course come to the party. 

Tybalt's sister Hermia has been invited, too, and that's it - because of the size of the dorm, only two guests were allowed, and I am not going to try and add more guests with the help of a cheat just to have the game crash.

Back from class, Puck quickly claims his room and changes into a woolly jumper and a pair of jeans. Some of the girls at the dorm are checking him out quite unashamedly as the new guy when he has a bowl of Mac & Cheese at the canteen. 

He ends his first day by watching the cooking channel - a fun way to gain the cooking skill required this semester.

To Puck, friends and family are everything. Even before he gets dressed the next morning, he is on the phone to tell the folks back home that he has arrived and is settling in well. 

20 best friends are his lifetime want, and he makes his 9th and 10th best friends today talking to Benedick and Beatrice Monty.

No semester can go by without at least one fight between the cow and llama mascots. As usual, the Llama wins. 

"I am not one of those who end up being enrolled in Philosophy as their Major because they can't decide for themselves - I know what I want!" he tells a fellow dorm resident in the canteen. Yes, he wants Drama, and he gets Drama :-)

Puck wants to meet someone new, and so he and Mercutio walk to the Romara Coffee Shop. 

Puck meets Mitch Indie as the only other playable visitor to the lot, and apparently they have happened to visit on Boys' Day - apart from the Barista, everyone else on the lot is male (including the Unsavoury Charlatan, who puts in an appearance just as Puck and Mercutio are about to leave). 

Back at the dorm, Puck trims the hedges and shrubs around the dorm entirely on his own initiative. Maybe this reminds him of home, where he often helped his father taking care of their vast garden.

Over breakfast the next morning, Puck thinks about the best friends he already has made and the ones he still has to work on.

His first semester has gone well; both he and Monty return from their exams at the same time, and while Puck happily sees his name on the Dean's List, Monty "only" managed to achieve an A-, which means he is not on the list but still gets the full grant of 1,200 Simoleons. 

Exams make hungry, and Puck's first stop is in the canteen, where he sits opposite one of his female dorm mates who is in her undies. Love is a subject close to most Sims' hearts this time of year, and Puck is no exception. But he doesn't feel attracted to this particular fellow student (or to anyone else).

"Professor Rusewicz! How nice of you to call. Yes, I have already handed in my Term Paper. I like to get things done early, you know." Puck's professor rings almost every day, and maybe she'll be one of his 20 best friends eventually. 

While Puck was diligently typing away at his term paper, Mercutio wished to influence someone to write his, and spent most of his spare time dancing while a fellow student was slaving away in the common room doing the work for him.

"I wish I met someone here on campus, that special someone," Puck tells his friend over their plates of spaghetti with meatballs one evening. The second semester of his first year here is half way over, and while there are many girls and boys about, none has yet captured his interest, let alone his heart. 

Mercutio wants to play a video game and heads to the downstairs common room, where he is soon joined by Demi Long. She is the one who wrote his Term Paper for him, but apparently she feels he does not appreciate her efforts enough - when Monty is not busy otherwise, she constantly seeks him out and pokes him. They have not yet reached enemy status, but are not far off.

Oh Puck, you really should know better than to knock at the glass of the fish tank! (I really think EA should NOT have programmed that into the game.) 

I find Puck throwing pink hearts for a fellow student, but when I have him talk to her and check her out properly, they have two bolts only. With three, I would of course have made an exception and let them become closer. 

Is it possible that it is Exam Day already again? Yes, it is!

The boys have worked hard (well, sort of) over the last half year, and so they both return from their exams with A+ grades, their names on the Dean's List and 1,200 Simoleons each. 

For Puck, it's the start of his Sophomore Year, while Mercutio is now a Junior. Puck wishes for his sister and some of his younger friends to join him at college, but it's a while yet before we shall return to Académie Le Tour for one of them.