Martin Ruben: Sophomore Year

We're not finished with the Urele-Oresha-Cham fraternity yet! The youngest member, Sophomore Martin Ruben, will be our host for a "year". He was invited to join the fraternity and move in by his big brother, Joshua Ruben. 

Click here for his Freshman year at the house he shared with Allegra Gorey and Jane Stacks.

"Martin can hardly believe he's really related to a frat member. Rather than dwelling on it though, he keeps his nose to the grindstone, hangs out with his roommates and tries to avoid the sorority girls." - That's what Maxis write about him, so maybe becoming a frat brother himself seems a little out of character. 

Well, now he is here, and we'll see how college life suits him under these different circumstances. 

His aspiration is Knowledge, and rather typically, he sees his future as Desiderata's Education Minister. Maybe you remember that he fell in love autonomously with Jane Stacks; I wonder how she takes his moving out of the house they shared with Allegra Gorey. First things first, though; Martin needs (and wants!) to write his Term Paper. 

Meanwhile, Jared Starchild greets Genesis Lee, an NPC student I want to make playable because of her surname.

A group of Sims - current and former students, such as Erik Swain and Ashley Pitts - are arriving at the house. You can guess why, can't you?

It's Joshua Ruben's graduation party! Martin looks a bit lost, wondering how he is supposed to keep the fraternity going with the last three of its original members leaving campus for good. 

Jane is here to join the party which has seamlessly moved from Joshua's to Castor Nova's graduation. Of course Martin is more than happy to see Jane, especially after he has just had to wave his big brother good-bye.

Castor, who has somehow managed to stuff all his wild hair underneath his mortar board, and Allegra Gorey are our next couple to fall in love autonomously!

Martin has taken over the fraternity tradition to eat pizza in the yard behind the house.

Jared Starchild has graduated Summa Cum Laude in Arts. 

Kevin Beare is next to throw his graduation party. Of course his 3-bolt-lady, Vamsi Simpson, is his guest of honour, and he plays a love song on the piano exclusively for her. "My Kevin!" she sighs happily. (Naturally, the piece was neither a love song nor just for Vamsi, but it sounds like something Kevin would do, doesn't it?)

Next to return with a diploma in his pocket is Toby Scott. "Tobs" has graduated Summa Cum Laude in Mathematics.

Having graduated doesn't help to escape the campus coach who turns up just as Toby enters the house, and before he can put on his robe and mortar board, he has to change into his gymnastics outfit and do some exercises. 

But eventually, the coach leaves, and Toby can have his graduation party. Of course, his former dorm mate and frat brother Erik Swain is invited, too - after all, it was Erik who brought him here. 

If Martin and Heather Huffington ever had anything going on, I can't remember! Anyway, it looks like Martin is very unhappy seeing her talk to Ashley Pitts - these two were three-bolters last time I checked.

The fraternity house sees the fourth graduation party in as many days - it is now Jared Starchild's turn. Once again, the former dorm and house mates gather for the occasion. 

Martin has just finished the first semester of his Sophomore Year. He already has the required skills for the second semester, and so I send him to write his Term Paper (he wishes for it, too) right away. However, with Jared's party going on downstairs, Martin feels left out, working away all on his own upstairs. "Everybody but me is having fun!" he thinks. 

Building a snowman is much more to his liking right now. But soon afterwards, he completes his Term Paper - there were only a few more paragraphs left to write anyway. 

The next morning, I catch Martin daydreaming about Jane. Funnily enough, all this winter he has not yet rolled any wish involving her.

Jimmy Phoenix has just graduated, and the customary party ensues. After he has boarded the taxi to The Valley, Martin is left on his own in the big house - hardly surprising, the fraternity drops to level 2 (after it had reached level 6 not that long ago).

Martin's Sophomore Year is over. He has done well academically, but could have done better socially. I really hope the fraternity is going to keep going - maybe when I play other students, they will wish to join a Greek House, and can befriend Martin in order to do that. We'll see!

The second semester went by excepitonally quickly, since there weren't as many parties to throw (and watch what everyone was doing). Desiderata's Downtown is rapidly filling up with graduates - almost every one of the cheaper houses has been taken.