So a little bit of a surprise - if you only need 12 credits and you get a distinguished award in whatever you're shooting for, you don't automatically test out of college.
Damn shame, because I've run out of things I care to do -at- college.
Maybe I'll see about getting all that extra cash I didn't get before now. I'm sitting on nearly $20k without trying; what's another $80k between friends, right? It'll take quite a bit of work, but I've got a plan that might do the trick.
I'm not going to mess around with the job board for this - there are few enough decent day jobs, and frankly they're not worth the time, not really. I don't have a high enough skill to consider writing, painting, sculpting, or playing for tips - in point of fact, almost none of the skills I have maxed do a single thing toward making money if you're not in a career. I mean, there's searching for constellations but ... it's not fast or efficient.
But I can work with it. I'll see about maxing Science quickly and abusing plasma bugs - that's my plan, and since I still don't need to sleep, I think it'll work well. I'm going to buy a bookshelf with skill books, take some science books to the library, and study science. I'll also trade in some of my LTR points for "Fast Learner."
I picked Martial Arts as my Brain Enhancer skill - I feel wrong ignoring the Brain Enhancer since it's basically free skill points. Sure, I may never use those skills, but they're there.
By Sunday at midnight, Janie has a high enough Science skill to correlate scientific data, analyze insects, and start up the radiation experiments. She's also given a cockroach and a ladybug to work on.
The cockroach succumbs after three experiments, becoming the ultra-rare plasma bug. Score! Now all I have to do is level my science a little more - obviously no challenge at all - and then I can clone infinitely many plasma bugs - for fun, profit, and the American way. Or something. Mostly profit, though. Plasma bugs sell for 3k apiece, give or take. Mostly give.
By Tuesday morning, Janie's maxed Science and is ready to throw caution to the wind in pursuit of the big simoleans. She spends most of Tuesday cloning the plasma bug, and nets a little over $21k. Glad to see I'm probably right - this looks increasingly doable.
Her grades are suffering - or well, not advancing. So I have to choose - do I work on keeping my straight A's, or do I work toward getting more money than God?
Well, by Thursday evening, I've managed to clone up to $104,970. Not bad at all. Now to get those grades up to snuff.
I send Janie off to the library to study (hard) and read the social networking books in hopes that I can push that grade meter up high enough to succeed.
I'm absolutely shocked when she gets a 'flying colors' pass on the first of her two tests this semester; she'd been at maybe 3/4 a bar, and that brought her up to 7/8. The second also says 'flying colors,' but I don't get a chance to see what the meter reads.
Janie finished the term with a B, but her overall average is an A. I will definitely take one sub-par semester and $11,036 to start (after selling off a few more worldly belongings like the dragon, all of her course materials, and some gifts she'd received for some unknown reason. Every penny counts, and I've managed to put together quite a few pennies. It's pretty great.
So, that was college!
Janie's finishing stats:
10 Athletics
10 Charisma
10 Science
10 Handiness
10 Logic
7 Social Networking
4 Cooking
3 Martial Arts
1 Mixology
Rank 9 Nerd
Fast Learner
Attractive
Multi-tasker
Hardly Hungry
Meditative Trance Sleep
Bookshop Bargainer
Fertility Treatment
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