Jack Kim: Sophomore Year

We're STILL in Desiderata Valley, now at the largest dorm at uni. The dorm has 14 rooms, and seven of them are currently occupied by playable students, all of them sophomores: Sam Thomas, Jimmy Phoenix, Erik Swain, Ty Bubbler, Toby Scott and Jared Starchild. The student we're here for this year is the young man who looks as if he's suffering cold hands: Jack Kim, who was made playable not all that long ago (just like Toby Scott). 

When Jack moved in, he had not a single skill point and nothing in his inventory. He is a Family Sim who wants to marry off six children.

Sam, her boyfriend Ty and Jimmy share a table in the cafeteria, with Sam talking across the room to another table.

It's Toby Scott and Erik Swain there. 

I have bought better beds for everyone; their combined grants mean the students are actually rather well off. Jack still looks as if he's very tired the next morning, though. 

Ty and Sam fell in love autonomously during their Freshman Year; now they move from crush to red-hearts love. 

Jack is not the first but not the last, either, to send in his Paper this Term.

He celebrates with a dance session and does not seem to be bothered by one of the NPC students tickling him under the arm :-D

He is now friends with Erik Swain. 

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After everyone has finished their papers, Jack calls a group taxi to the Student Union. They meet a few other students there, have something to eat and play the odd computer game before it is time to head back to the dorm.

The next morning, Jack finds it is snowing again.

A fire breaks out in the cafeteria, quickly extinguished out by the sprinkler. 

Jack goes to sweep the pavement clean of snow on his own accord. (Of course what he really did here was raking leaves, but it looks like it, doesn't it?)

If you want drama, just go to the cafeteria! When it's not a fire, it's a fight...

...and this time, the Llama wins.

Once again, everyone in the group passes their mid-year exam with A+ results, names on the Dean's List and the full grants.

As usual, it's skilling time for everyone before they can get started on their Term Papers. 

"Phew! That was hard work," Jack thinks when he has finished his.

Erik Swain gets into a fight with one of the NPC dormies. There has been a lot of agression going on at this dorm - I can't remember ever having seen so many fights with a group of students before. 

And again, if it's not fighting, it's a fire! 

"What?! The dorm cook has done it AGAIN?" Yes, Jack, he has. Fortunately, Jack managed to grab a bowl of the chili that was not burnt.

When he's not studying, he's dancing. Here, Jack is showing off the amazing flexibility of his hips... 

...and what must be one of my favourite dance moves :-D

Meanwhile, Toby Scott has been kind enough to mop the cafeteria floor, still wet from the sprinkler that was set off by the cook's latest fire.

The next morning, Jared Starchild (whose room is next to Jack's) pops over to tell him about the great new CD he has heard about - knowing how our Jack loves dancing.

Toby is forever Sam's victim, and I have no idea what triggered the animosity between these two. 

Sam wins.

Spring has sprung, and when Jack returns from class, he notices the overgrown shrubs and weeds at the dorm entrance. He sets to work straight away on his own initiative. 

Just as he is talking on the phone to improve a friendship with one of the other playable students, the campus coach shows up.

And dutifully, Jack works out for a while; not that he really needs it. 

To my surprise, Sam shows the wish to apologize to Toby. Sadly, it does not make a difference - a minute later, they are having another poke-and-slap fest.

But still, everyone finishes their Sophomore Year at A+ grades and with their names on the Dean's List. 

The constant fighting got on my nerves, honestly! But I was focusing on Jack and rarely intervening when Sam and Toby or Erik and one of the NPC students were fighting. Jack has not made a single step towards his lifetime want yet, but now that it's spring, he really wants to flirt, have a date and fall in love. He'll have to wait until next time I play this dorm - same as a certain Professor Heather Smith, who I have Jimmy Phoenix trying to befriend.