To open up the semester, I checked the job board for anything 'social group' related. Fortunately, the very first social job available was to level nerd status - beneficial when that's the social group I'm working on maxing, isn't it?
Due to a little bug where Charcoal (the baby black dragon) decided to be inoperable, I had to sell him and rebuy a new egg. So, I dragged out the Sleep Slave bed a little bit earlier than I intended to, and Janie got in her once-a-week nap. The new egg hatched into a new baby black dragon without incident.
This semester, I'm taking two classes, and yay, they're in the early morning. Not that it matters terribly when you don't sleep, but it's a bit annoying when you do.
Managing to keep grades up this semester will be harder for two reasons. One, with Charisma maxed out, there's not much on that front Janie can actually do to improve - and get credit for it, at least.
Secondly, social networking doesn't seem to actually do much to improve academic performance. In an apocalypse scenario - where you won't be allowed to use social networking beyond college - it's basically useless, too.
What I did to address these concerns was, essentially, work hard, study immediately before class, have fun between classes (where possible), and spend a lot of time with the business study aid. Studying immediately before her finals netted her flying colors on the first test and that pushed her performance meter from 7/8ish to full.
In short, I had Janie bust her hump and she managed to ace this semester, as well. In celebration, I had her shoot for that 'work out for ten hours' wish, which incidentally gave me time to write this!
Janie's stats as of Sunday at 7 AM:
- Athletics 10
- Charisma 10
- Cooking 4
- Handiness 4
- Logic 7
- Social Networking 2
Multitasker
Fertility Treatment
Bookshop Bargainer
Also she made rank 8 of Nerd, netting her the Over Emotional trait. Happy sims are happy.
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