Fall makes assignments and papers count for more grade points?  I thought it just made them go faster.  *sets uni hood to spring-spring-summer-winter*

Ok, maybe I just need to change my playstyle a bit then.  It's just too easy to fall into a compulsive bar-filling rut after a while.

Yeah, I kinda see that, but I'm usually running out of things for them to do even while getting them 4.0s.  Romance and Popularity sims are better, but I have trouble finding things for shy Knowledge and Fortune sims to do other than study, play instruments, and possibly scope out a future mate.  I've taken to having them buy crafting stations and getting badges during college.  When they do go out, I tend to send them downtown anyway, which doesn't spend any time of the semester.

Maybe if there was a hack than made all semesters 48 hours instead of 72?

ETA: To clarify, I don't necessarily want to make it more grueling - I just want my sims to have to choose between good grades and parties and instruments and woohoo all the time.  It would help to flesh out their relative personalities for me.

My sims mostly have all the skill points they need when they go to uni anyway, and the college clock routine gets kind of boring after a while, and I want uni to be a challenge, so that it's actually hard to get a 4.0 and spend every night hanging out at the lounge.

I'm wondering if it would be possible to make a hack that causes the college class performance bar to behave like the aspiration bar and decay over time.  That way, you keep on having to do assignments and go to class and write papers and woohoo professors and the like all semester long, and you can't just do it all in the first 15 hours and then goof off for the rest of the semester.  I really want some of my sims to graduate with less than a 4.0 occasionally.

I'd probably attempt to do it myself, but I don't really know that much about making hacks, and in any case my SimPE doesn't seem to work anymore.  Is this possible, though?

I had a cat in Uni by accident recently - I had another sim give her the cat on their own lot, forgetting that she'd already moved into the dorm.  Nothing bad happened, other than that the cat did not age for the the entire four years of college.  I just had her give the cat back to her parents before she moved back to the main hood.

IRL, I know you can't usually have pets at college, but I knew a girl in college who secretly kept a cat in her dorm room anyway.  I don't think anyone whose opinion mattered ever found out about it.