How to Succeed in Business (or Fine Arts, or Communications) Without Even Trying

[simone23]

I was going to all my classes, sucking up to professors and studying hard, but I'm finding that the best way to make the grade in UL is to ditch class (except for exams, and unless you need the sleep) and work on extracurricular activities.  So far these activities for these majors will get you on the Dean's List fast and keep you there as long as you put in a minimal time per day doing them:

• My Science major planted a small garden and maintained it.  Easy A, plus he got quite a large herb supply out of it.
• My Business major struggled with grades until he spent an hour chatting up a dorm-mate and showing him funny videos.  Wasn't watching his grades until all of a sudden, the Dean's List moodlet popped up.
• My Fine Arts major wrote a couple of comic books a day (they go quickly) to keep her grades high

What's your favorite methods of blowing the curve?

[Vinyl]

I'm finding it a lot easier to maintain high grades while ditching class with a small courseload (one class per term).  If I send a sim off to university taking only one course it winds up being a vacation with some skilling rather than an academic experience!

My favourite sort-of slacker experience was a blogger taking a full business course load of three subjects.  She did go to the Monday/Wednesday/Friday classes, but skipped the activites and spent her class time with the 'suck up to the professor tone.' In her freetime she'd play online games with fellow nerds, attend parties, and woohoo with her professor (by second term he was her roommate and boyfriend).  Woohoo triggers the gotta blog moodlet, and blogging raises the social networking skill.  A little unconventional, but she left university with an A and a three star blog!

[simone23]

Woohooing the professor, blogging about it, and having the blogging improve your GPA is pure genius.

[janehumen]

Woohooing the professor, blogging about it, and having the blogging improve your GPA is pure genius.

I know, right?! That is hilarious.

[Kaye]

I'm afraid I'm boring. My sims do it the traditional way. Work hard in class, study hard at least once a day and use their given major-related objects. They're always on the Dean's List. They still have their fun, though. My witch was setting fire all over campus!

[MoMoll]

For Fine Arts, playing any instrument increases class performance. My sim went to class, but spent the time socializing or texting. Between classes she would jam and it increased her score and her mood.

One thing a rebel shouldn't do is "suck up to te professor". She did that once and was accused of "being a sellout" after class.

Of course, her prodfessor "Madeleine" is in love with her. She keeps getting love letters from her. All because of a dare she completed at the sorority "Kiss a random sim". Now all the sorority girls and her professor are inviting her out on dates.

[simone23]

All because of a dare she completed at the sorority "Kiss a random sim". Now all the sorority girls and her professor are inviting her out on dates.

I hadn't noticed until UL any times when the UI attraction system geared a sim towards same-sex attraction.  All of a sudden though, at uni, there are a lot of lesbians. 

[janehumen]

I hadn't noticed until UL any times when the UI attraction system geared a sim towards same-sex attraction.  All of a sudden though, at uni, there are a lot of lesbians.

Well, hey, it's college! Lol! I noticed that too, on a previous file of mine, my Sim had all these random girls flirting with her. It was awesome.

[MoMoll]

It's not just the sorority. the Frat house, when my sim went to party, had the dudes all making out with each other! One reason to stay in the dorm.

[Saturn]

I have no trouble maxing my Sims for their exams in any of the subjects.  I just take 2 days of rigorous studying and I use testingcheatsenable on to keep their stats maxed and I'll go from Study on the computer, Study from their textbook and Study on the cell phone and make sure they all go to class.  By doing that for 2 days, their bar will be almost full if not all the way full and they ace their exams.  I also get to run the game on fast during this time.  Just keep queuing up the 3 studies and you'll see the bar rising!

[sawadaWiz]

Just suck up at professor and beg for nice grade at exam. My sims get perfect GPA without studying as usual or work hard tone. When he's at Dean's List, I use take it easy. It raises fun and performance a bit.

[Branr]

I'm having trouble finding a long-term activity (i.e., painting or guitar for Fine Arts, working out for Phys Ed, practicing speech for Business, playing chess and upgrading items for Technology, fishing for Sci/Med) for the Communications degree.  Since the radio transmitter was giving me Charisma, I tried practicing speech, and the degree progress bar dropped.  Next was writing, both practicing writing and writing a book.  Still no luck.  It lists photography as a metric, but there is no way to "fire and forget" a sim to raise that skill.

Has anyone discovered an activity that will work for Communications?

[sawadaWiz]

Seems that those activities don't increase the progress bar significantly. My sim is only able to gain some progress by sucking up to professor at class. Other activities seem only to prevent the bar from dropping.

[iariley15]

Writing works for comunicaitions


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[Pam]

Writing works for comunicaitions


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If you are responding to Branr's message from almost six months ago, he already stated that writing doesn't work for the Communications degree.  It really doesn't help much to post in such an old topic and then only put something that has already been found not to work.