Miranda Capp - Freshman Year

Miranda's last days as a teenager before leaving the family home for college is here.

Because I was unable to play Miranda Capp's first year at college when it was actually her turn on the alphabetical list, I am going back to her now. 

She started out originally at a different dorm, but when I was still trying to fix the problems with my Ultimate Collection, I moved her and the other playable students here, to Casteroff Dormitory. It is more practical, too, because it has only 8 rooms, the max number of playables to a household anyway. 

Here she is, just gotten off the taxi, now a young adult. Miranda's aspiration is Romance, but thankfully her lifetime want is not about 20 lovers or 50 dream dates or something exhausting like that - she really just wants to become a Celebrity Chef.

The other playables here are, left to right: Mercutio Monty, Jace Lee (former teenage townie made playable because of his surname) and Puck Summerdream. 

I swear they all had different hairstyles when I last saw them! Now they look a bit daft, if I'm honest, but maybe that's what young men sometimes do (and young women) when they think they need to be "cool" students, and so for now I am leaving them as they are.

What I am not going to leave unchanged are their rooms at the dorm. The students have over 14,000 Simoleons between them, so there is no need to sleep in the cheapest beds and one room not even having a desk but a bulky wardrobe. 

This is what I have done with the rooms, and they still have over 10,000 Simoleons left.

Of course, the first thing they all do is to claim their rooms on the ground floor. Then they visit each other; here, Miranda is greeting Mercutio Monty, who is the oldest student here, already in his Junior year. 

Then she has her first meal at the cafeteria and is joined by fellow Freshman Jace Lee. Puck Summerdream had to leave for class almost immediately; he is a Sophomore.

Miranda has slept well in the comfortable bed, and on waking up, she knows exactly what she wants to do today. 

First she has breakfast at the cafeteria, where Jace joins her again. She is surprised to note that he seems to find the elderly dorm cook VERY attractive. 

After breakfast she returns to her room to do what she decided on when she woke up: Declare her Major in Psychology. How useful this will be for her career in the culinary field remains to be seen.

So far, Puck is the only one to wish to write his Term Paper, and doesn't he look happy when he presses the "send" button at the end! (Goodness, that hairstyle really DOES look daft, doesn't it?)

Something odd happens when I have Jace use the Thinking Cap for a skill he wants: Although he is on Platinum because of his daily wishes being fulfilled, the moment he starts to study a message appears, informing me that "sometimes one can burn out from too much thinking" (or something along those lines), and his energy drops so low that he almost doesn't make it to his bed.

I try again the next day, and the same thing happens; also, his aspiration never seems to waver from Platinum, so I guess it's a bug with him. Maybe sending him to community lot will fix it, but with everyone on such different schedules for class they won't have their exams all at the same time anymore, and I want to keep it that way.

The end of the first semester of her Freshman Year comes quickly, and Miranda duly returns from her exams with an A+ grade and her name on the Dean's List. 

Also, she seems to have won the admiration and attraction of her three playable co-students. The same is true for the other playables except for Jace, who "only" managed a B and instead of the full grant of 1,200 receives only 700 Simoleons. 

The Campus Coach pays one of his dreaded visits and starts to "subtly hint" at Mercutio's need to work on his fitness just as the young man is tucking his well-deserved lunch at the cafeteria. Mercutio does indeed need a body skill point this semester, and he promises to work out as soon as he returns from class, which must have priority - surely even a coach can see that?

Meanwhile, Jace (still in only his PJ bottoms, since he woke up just in time to rush to his exam and had to head to class traight afterwards) and Miranda return from class at the same time, and he develops a crush on her at this very moment. 

It takes another day or so until Miranda shows a pink heart for Jace, too. There is only one chemistry bolt between them, so it remains to be seen whether they'll stay together or it is really just a college romance. 

I never know whether it's the dorm cooks who are to blame for the common cafeteria fires or their equipment is worn out from so much use, but here we go again - good job the sprinkler works! 

Miranda does her best to talk to her family back home a lot. She arrived at college being friends with her Dad and her siblings, but not with her mother. Hopefully, one day that will change.

The boys love a good game of darts, and Mercutio is only slightly distracted by Jace pulling horrible faces and growling at him.

He then has a meal at the cafeteria and joins one of the NPC students at her table; I am surprised to see that these two are best friends now.

Exam Day is here, and our two Freshmen Jace and Miranda calm their nerves in their own way - after which they are well and truly in love with each other :-) 

It must have worked, because even Jace who previously did not quite as well as the others finishes the year with an A+ and the full grant just like the other three.

Miranda appears to be particularly relieved at having completely her Freshman Year. 

They now have over 19,000 Simoleons between them and could invest into some improvements to the dorm.

Who is going to join the group of playables next?