i haven’t touched university in AGES! something i think is funny though is that, even though the dorms are bad, they are better than actual dorm rooms 💀
i mean like… all the dorm rooms in the expansion pack are huge and the rooms have lots of color variety. idk where you’re from or if you’ve been to an actual college dorm, but at my college all the furniture is the same color and the rooms, especially for underclassmen, are tiny and shared.
@@ohokay.1980 wouldn't call those huge - if you scale it based on like beds and shiet those are between 10-20m2. And some of those are shared between multiple Sims. They feel big, because like all Sims builds - they are empty. And colour variety is just the stylistic choice. It's one specific Ikea like style they went with. Which was kinda big like decade ago - especially for schools and student living spaces. But yeah - I thought you meant it like, you have been living in some hardcore mancaves. Because the Discover University Dorms - for most part look like some mid-standard, but still relatively cheap-looking college rooms. The colours are supposed to imitate higher standard of flats from around that time, but all the shiet is just some cheap furniture. And the open, intersex communal bathrooms and lack of kitchen? That's scary AF. That's not a good quality of living, even for broke students.
@@mjm3091 Gotta love the spaciousness of sims builds. Tbh I would’ve preferred they made the builds tiny just to make it realistic and watch my sim suffer 💀 my exes dorm room was… if you wanna scale it… the width of three twin beds with desks under the beds. He and his roommate could’ve held hands in bed if they wanted. Not all the dorms were like this, his room was just extra bad. Also, I feel like most dorms at my university do not have kitchens, only upperclassmen apartments (but there’s a lot of dining halls so it’s fine?). BUT YES I def get you’re understanding of what I said. Would I want a big sims dorm room? Yes. Would I want the bathrooms in the game? Absolutely not.
@@ohokay.1980 One thing that really helps make the rooms appear more spacious is that beds and dining tables are really narrow (if we assume that a tile is the space between wall studs or the width of a typical kitchen module, it’s 60 cm or 2’) compared to their real-life counterparts.
You should put one of the sneak out windows that leads onto the platform roof cause in real life you know college students would be out there partying. could even put a couch out there!
I feel like I’m the only person who uses universities CONTINUOUSLY. Almost all my sims go to college and I just put it on long lifespan or turn off aging while they’re in college and then change it back. Edit: I will say I almost always do it off campus because I have to be in a mood to actually use the world
Yeah I like using it but I usually don’t live in the uni world. For more variety it’s also fun to do “non-traditional” students. I have a single mom with 4 kids who attends university part time and lives in a different world. You could also do older students going through mid-life crisis, a student living with family at home, etc.
@@nicche511 yes!! I love doing all those! I love having someone go later in life or as a single parent. It’s so good for storytelling and gameplay, the stress is perfect lol
I have sims live in San Myshuno and attend college from there! It still captures the hip, young, cool kid vibe but makes getting to class so much easier. I really enjoy what University adds to playthroughs.
All my Sims attend university too. I set up all of the dorms as residential, used gnome money to purchase, and rotate people through so they are never empty. Also, have people attend from their homes in other worlds. I play with aging off and age up manually. Am rotational player and have groups of people go to uni together. They form uni clubs and stay friends all throughout life.
Listening to this as my sim starts their first (and only semester) at Law School. 😅 Thank God for a mod that makes it so that you only need 4 core classes to pass. So many weeks in University is SO much. I can only stand a week.
In Norway, the “core” student appliance is what we call a “hybelkomfyr”, which I suppose means “bedsit stove”. It’s meant to fit on a bench top, and has a small oven and a cooktop with two plates (or whatever you call the spots where you put the pots when it’s electric and not burners).
i had to look this up cos i've never heard of this, but that's amazing! it looks so handy! (btw they're still called burners, whether they're gas, electric, or induction 😊)
As someone from the UK it bothers me sooooo much that you can’t put an oven in the uni halls. My sims will never understand the pain of one oven with 4 burners per 16 sims and I think that’s sad. Also random fire alarms at 2am when a drunk person burns their toast trying to grill it 😢
The stove thing feels like an American university/college thing. Which has always confused me, especially as they based the world on British universities, yet I've lived in halls of accommodation at uni. We had two stoves for eight people. The other thing which stood out as American to me was the shared rooms. My halls didn't even have shared bathrooms, though some here do. None of the halls of residence at my uni (or at least, my campus. The uni I chose to go to has several campuses) had shared rooms, and one of the people in my flat was an American studying abroad, and the two things they pointed out as being different at American universities were the shared rooms (or lack thereof) and the stoves, and how students are expected to get their food. It just seems weird to me that the sims team decided to do a university pack, basing it on English university towns, but then failed to put the research in to what our universities are like. It ends up feeling neither British nor American. I wonder if there is any country or culture where the concept of an English-style university town and American-style university accommodation actually co-exists. If so, I guess they lucked into getting accidental university life representation.
It's kind of weird for me to think of a dorm witout stove. I myself as a student in Norway I rent a house, with stove obviously. All the rooms near te school have stoves. When I was in the US for the world university winter games my dad and I slept in dorm rooms on a campus. My dad's room had a kitchen with gas stove! Mine didn't, and somehow it felt like a hotel room😂
I don’t think anyone in Norway would even consider renting out a bedsit with a kitchenette that doesn’t at least have a bedsit stove (but ideally a full-size stove if there’s space for it), because it’s such an essential appliance.
It is a little odd but I always liked the one giant bedroom upstairs in that house - its like that one private space you can pay more for (no idea if that's a real thing). One of my favorite playthroughs I actually had a couple get engaged right out of HS, go to Uni together, and share that space.
I think because it was a stand alone house, the double bed room was meant for student couples. Married student housing is a thing in some places, especially in freestanding homes, often those used to be regular houses that the university bought when they expanded, so there is one primary bedroom and some smaller bedrooms. Because it’s a regular house converted into Uni housing.
I'm bad cause I never loved in a dorm during university. I did community college my first two years so I could drive from home and when I transferred to an actual university for my BA I wasn't required to live on campus since I wasn't technically a freshman. I worked fulltime during Uni and had a few scholarships with a living stipend, so I had my own apartment all to myself. It's probably my most nostalgic time, because living alone was amazing and no one told me I couldn't make pudding at 3am if I had insomnia.
I actually love playing University (for a semester or two before I award a degree with MCCC lol) but I'm always off living off campus (as I did irl). My first/only dorm room building was just a couple stories of rooms with a bathroom between the rooms, "rec" area in the middle of the first floor and laundry/kitchen in the basement floor (it was lowkey terrifying) in a building from the 1950s with no A/C in the middle of a semi-desert area so literally anything would be better hahaha
1:58 I'm French and I didn't know that the expression "cul-de-sac" was used is english 😭😭 for people who want to know the translation for this, it's "bag's a$$" And sorry for my really bad english...
i like to think that the reason for the upstairs being so fancy and the two downstairs bedrooms being literal dorm rooms is because the house is owned by a couple who rent out two downstairs rooms for maybe transfer students
LITERALLY and I hated living in a dorm just cause the girls on my floors were messy and the bathrooms were trashed. When I got to move offcampus I moved with my best friend yea it cost more with just one roommate but idc
Wow I JUST renovated all of britechester and had so much fun with the Foxbury dorms. I play in Britechester all the time because it's so gorgeous even if the default builds are...lackluster.
Kayla saying “I’m gonna use my old dorm as inspo so sorry if it’s not relatable” but jokes on you we lived in the same exact dorms and this is the MOST relatable. Also, saying the showers were dark is SO REAL !! Like why were we showering blind ???? 😭😭😭
I’ve only played university once. Every-time I play it my files randomly get corrupted ☠️so I just pretend it’s England and put cc cafes and libraries in there
it's interesting to hear people talk about mini fridges in their dorms, cause when i lived on campus, we weren't allowed to have one at all unless you had a medical reason + needed it for storing your medication. Granted, the dorms i lived in all had full kitchens (either shared with the floor, or just your 1-5 roommates) so, that likely played into it a lot. it's cool learning about how other countries do things, or even how different it can be within the same country. The build turned out really cute as well, I think. The teal/greenish room on the first floor would be my pick if I lived there - it's such a nice colour to me. I'll definitely have to drop this into my new save and give it a go with a Univesity playthrough!
My sims can’t live at university because I will always get this error that won’t let me back on my game. No idea why. No one at sims could help. I have no mods 😅
I’ve been playing University and let me tell you, my biggest issue is that it takes an hour for my Sim to walk from his dorm to his classes. (A bike doesn’t really help, either)
Kayla: I shouldn’t use this table, I don’t want to use High School Years Kayla 30 seconds later: yknow I really like these beanbags from High School Years
5:37 my biggest pet peeve about the game is how all the swatches don’t match. especially in woods for doors & windows that are supposed to go together from the same pack
I find stoves being banned really funny because my college did some have residential houses turned into student housing, but they still had kitchens. Even campus owned apartments had kitchens. Some of the dormitories had a common/shared kitchen. It was just the individual dormitory rooms themselves that were not allowed full size appliances.
I absolutely hate the layout of this default build but I dont ‘hate’ the look of the outside (i like that it matches the neighbors XD) so I’ve built a better layout and replace it everytime I start a new save 🤣
So spooky, I just did a dorm reno this week too! Not done one since the pack came out, and we've had ladders since then! 😂🙈 So did a sneaky ladder (bookself door) to the roof of Drake Hall for a party space. Used alot of werewolves pack (dont ask how they got a leather sofa up a ladder 😂) kegs, ping pong, the newspaper dance floor, fairy lights etc. If i had the basement kit, it would have been the vibe 👌
Everything in this video sounds so weird for me since in Finland there are no dorms (in universities). There are student housing that have shared apartments as well as one to three room apartments for those who don't want shared aparments and families and such. And there are not even enough student housing for all so some choose to live in normal apartments around the city. I lived my first 1,5 years in a shared apartment with one roommate, and the apartment was basically just a normal two bed one bathroom apartment with full kitchen. The more I hear stories of dorms the more I'm happy about the situation here...
We couldn't burn candles in our dorm rooms, and we weren't even allowed to have wax melters :') But there was one kitchen in the entire building that you could 'rent' out, so my floor did a few dinners with everyone pitching in to pay for the ingredients and stuff
When GT came out I started a legacy making my sim the brother of Don Lothario and I’m making my heir Lottie go to uni and you just made me decide which one she’s going to bc I’m using this build!😂
I love the build! Though I have to say it looks more like a frat house. I'd love to see you build a standard dorm building. You know with like multiple floors, 20 rooms, one bathroom and a shower room.
I bought University like 6 months ago and literally never played with it. I'm currently doing a let's play where I play with a Sim from Birth to death. When my Sim ages up into a teen, I'm going to go to high school. then im going to university when my Sims graduates high school and going to university to become a doctor, then I'm going to switch and play with Get To Work.
Loved seeing this university update. Always so talented! I will say, I think it’s actually pretty realistic for things to not be a perfect match. different vendors. upgrades at different times. But why everything. At least the doors & windows could be the same 😩
PSA to anyone who uses this build, the game may bug and not allow you to move a sim into this lot when enrolling, even though the settings are entered correctly. I managed to fix this by renaming it Maritime Manor. The game seems to only recognise it if it has its original lot name. Great build btw!
University just takes too long. Id love to join clubs and the secret society but I'd have to take less classes per week and then it would take forever to finish all 12. So i just use it as a skills and job booster only.
These days I always make all of them residential and just place students manually once the game generates them or play one semester in a dorm and then turn it residential and keep all my roommates.
University was the first expansion pack I ever brought for TS4! I was so excited to have add on content... i probably played 200 hours of it and every potential storyline to DEATH, so it will always have a special place in my heart
I’ve tried so many times to go to the classes in the Sims College pack and it’s impossible to have multiple a day and play and have your sims do multiple sets of homework without Cheats!!!
The university I went to owned an apartment complex where I lived for 2 years. My roommate and I shared 1 bed and a private toilet. The third girl in our apartment got her own room but we all shared the same shower in "her" bathroom.
I hadn’t played university in a long time but I re built the dorms accordingly, tried to match architecture and I think they turned out pretty cool! Added more dorm like rooms and study rooms 😊
I used to play university in the sims 4 but when I had to make a new PlayStation account I lost the packs I had before and university was one of the packs I had. Now I hope to get it again soon cause I miss it. I love your style of the way your making the campus area look.
the no-stove rule is so annoying, so I use a mod to allow them. Considering it's based on the UK (Chichester, Chester, etc), you'd think they'd base the buildings on UK unis too, which are either halls with shared kitchens or normal houses that students rent out together
When I was in college I literally had no furniture when I moved into my first apartment so it was seriously like these big empty rooms 😂 I didn’t even have a couch 💀 we were sitting on lawn chairs
Hey Kayla if you are still wondering why they built the rooms like that, is because it is based off of a Sorority and that big room is probably the founder/ leader of the Sorority
I hate that you can't have ovens or even small grills on dorms. University dorms aren't a thing where I live (you just rent an apartment) but I used to live in a dorm back in high school and we had a full kitchen there and we were bunch of kids fresh out from middle school.
Genuinely, I had such a miserable real life experience with my (very traditional looking) university, I have exclusively played in the modern university. I heard the traditional one doesn't have completely inconvenient stairs everywhere? That sounds like a game changer.
Omg one thing that annoys me about University is that I decorated their dorm rooms but everytime they would leave campus some furniture would ALWAYS disappear and it was always the same ones (computer chairs and computers). Like why? It said I would have them in my inventory but they were never there and it would keep adding up to like 60 something chairs and 60 something computers.
university will always have a soft spot for me because it came out while i was in my first year of uni (like literally the day it came out was the same day my first midterm ever happened and i remember staying up until 1am bc that's when packs used to come out for me not to study and actually experience university for myself but to PLAY A FAKE UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE) but i will readily admit that it is a bad pack objectively
I just have to say, I've just recently found your channel on here and I LOVE your builds! I've been playing the sims since it came out when I was 11 about 23 years ago, and I've never been able to do good builds. Would love to find some of your builds in game to use!!
There was a building on my college campus that looked EXACTLY like that weird student union, except ours was silver! so many of the rooms had weird windows.
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Kayla: I don't want to use anything from high school years in this build.
Also Kalyla 2 minutes later: *puts down bean bags from high school years*
Yes! Lol, I was thinking the same thing!
@@SLorraineE And all the posters ♥
i haven’t touched university in AGES! something i think is funny though is that, even though the dorms are bad, they are better than actual dorm rooms 💀
girl, what third world country you are living
i mean like… all the dorm rooms in the expansion pack are huge and the rooms have lots of color variety. idk where you’re from or if you’ve been to an actual college dorm, but at my college all the furniture is the same color and the rooms, especially for underclassmen, are tiny and shared.
@@ohokay.1980 wouldn't call those huge - if you scale it based on like beds and shiet those are between 10-20m2. And some of those are shared between multiple Sims. They feel big, because like all Sims builds - they are empty.
And colour variety is just the stylistic choice. It's one specific Ikea like style they went with. Which was kinda big like decade ago - especially for schools and student living spaces.
But yeah - I thought you meant it like, you have been living in some hardcore mancaves. Because the Discover University Dorms - for most part look like some mid-standard, but still relatively cheap-looking college rooms. The colours are supposed to imitate higher standard of flats from around that time, but all the shiet is just some cheap furniture. And the open, intersex communal bathrooms and lack of kitchen? That's scary AF. That's not a good quality of living, even for broke students.
@@mjm3091 Gotta love the spaciousness of sims builds. Tbh I would’ve preferred they made the builds tiny just to make it realistic and watch my sim suffer 💀 my exes dorm room was… if you wanna scale it… the width of three twin beds with desks under the beds. He and his roommate could’ve held hands in bed if they wanted. Not all the dorms were like this, his room was just extra bad. Also, I feel like most dorms at my university do not have kitchens, only upperclassmen apartments (but there’s a lot of dining halls so it’s fine?). BUT YES I def get you’re understanding of what I said. Would I want a big sims dorm room? Yes. Would I want the bathrooms in the game? Absolutely not.
@@ohokay.1980
One thing that really helps make the rooms appear more spacious is that beds and dining tables are really narrow (if we assume that a tile is the space between wall studs or the width of a typical kitchen module, it’s 60 cm or 2’) compared to their real-life counterparts.
The way simsie piled all the dorm furniture in willy nilly is giving MASSIVE move in day vibes from my own college experience
I feel like the basement kit is actually reeeeally good for college-y builds
yes so smart!
Werewolf pack too!
ea switching to actual simmers for their builds was the best decision they ever made tbh, their builds are ROUGH
A mailbox is actually kinda important because you can get mail while at uni! I never got why it's not a requirement when mail is a thing that happens.
You should put one of the sneak out windows that leads onto the platform roof cause in real life you know college students would be out there partying. could even put a couch out there!
Why would they sneak out? They're adults, just walk out if you want to 💀
@@foranzo1582 not to sneak out but as a realistic way of using the roof space
the no-stove rule in the dorms is funny to me because in all of my uni accommodations, we have stove hobs 😅
And in Norway the bedsit stove (hybelkomfyr) is such a core appliance that it’s even named after the kind of accommodations it’s used in.
My university in the US had a kitchen in each dorm. Albeit my dorm housed 400+ people but still, we got a kitchen!
I love it when Kayla trashes EA’s builds
same it makes me giggle🤭
don’t we all
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Me too
I feel like I’m the only person who uses universities CONTINUOUSLY. Almost all my sims go to college and I just put it on long lifespan or turn off aging while they’re in college and then change it back.
Edit: I will say I almost always do it off campus because I have to be in a mood to actually use the world
Yeah I like using it but I usually don’t live in the uni world. For more variety it’s also fun to do “non-traditional” students. I have a single mom with 4 kids who attends university part time and lives in a different world. You could also do older students going through mid-life crisis, a student living with family at home, etc.
@@nicche511 yes!! I love doing all those! I love having someone go later in life or as a single parent. It’s so good for storytelling and gameplay, the stress is perfect lol
I have sims live in San Myshuno and attend college from there! It still captures the hip, young, cool kid vibe but makes getting to class so much easier. I really enjoy what University adds to playthroughs.
All my Sims attend university too. I set up all of the dorms as residential, used gnome money to purchase, and rotate people through so they are never empty. Also, have people attend from their homes in other worlds. I play with aging off and age up manually. Am rotational player and have groups of people go to uni together. They form uni clubs and stay friends all throughout life.
@@acebildz1253 I think I’m going to adopt your method! That’s genius my guy!
(Also y’all have validated my university addiction thank you lol)
Listening to this as my sim starts their first (and only semester) at Law School. 😅 Thank God for a mod that makes it so that you only need 4 core classes to pass. So many weeks in University is SO much. I can only stand a week.
Ooh! What's the name?
@@tortillachips3911 yeah I need this cause I played university once and was like "nah this is NO fun"
yes!! you basically spend all of the young adults years at uni
@@tortillachips3911 uhmm okay so I did some googling.
I found shorter university degrees by Peridot sims. I suspect that might be the one they mean
@@wordydird yes that’s the one!
In Norway, the “core” student appliance is what we call a “hybelkomfyr”, which I suppose means “bedsit stove”. It’s meant to fit on a bench top, and has a small oven and a cooktop with two plates (or whatever you call the spots where you put the pots when it’s electric and not burners).
i had to look this up cos i've never heard of this, but that's amazing! it looks so handy! (btw they're still called burners, whether they're gas, electric, or induction 😊)
yo that's genius! I'm looking into microwave grills right now since my oven broke and this thing looks like it could be a cheaper option
As someone from the UK it bothers me sooooo much that you can’t put an oven in the uni halls. My sims will never understand the pain of one oven with 4 burners per 16 sims and I think that’s sad. Also random fire alarms at 2am when a drunk person burns their toast trying to grill it 😢
I wish they incorporated fraternities and sororities! Those parties were so fun in sims 3!
couldn’t you kind of make your own with the club system in get together
@@kenzieallen_ you right 🤯
The stove thing feels like an American university/college thing. Which has always confused me, especially as they based the world on British universities, yet I've lived in halls of accommodation at uni. We had two stoves for eight people.
The other thing which stood out as American to me was the shared rooms. My halls didn't even have shared bathrooms, though some here do. None of the halls of residence at my uni (or at least, my campus. The uni I chose to go to has several campuses) had shared rooms, and one of the people in my flat was an American studying abroad, and the two things they pointed out as being different at American universities were the shared rooms (or lack thereof) and the stoves, and how students are expected to get their food.
It just seems weird to me that the sims team decided to do a university pack, basing it on English university towns, but then failed to put the research in to what our universities are like. It ends up feeling neither British nor American. I wonder if there is any country or culture where the concept of an English-style university town and American-style university accommodation actually co-exists. If so, I guess they lucked into getting accidental university life representation.
probably Canada haha, this felt pretty good. I’m not sure what true british or american uni is
I always thought Britechester was supposed to be like Boston - you have the older more formal uni like Harvard and then the tech institute like MIT
It's kind of weird for me to think of a dorm witout stove.
I myself as a student in Norway I rent a house, with stove obviously. All the rooms near te school have stoves.
When I was in the US for the world university winter games my dad and I slept in dorm rooms on a campus. My dad's room had a kitchen with gas stove!
Mine didn't, and somehow it felt like a hotel room😂
I don’t think anyone in Norway would even consider renting out a bedsit with a kitchenette that doesn’t at least have a bedsit stove (but ideally a full-size stove if there’s space for it), because it’s such an essential appliance.
i remember being soooo excited to play this pack, as i was staying in my own university's dorms... i immediately rebuilt every foxbury lot 😅😩
it didn’t click until halfway through, i’m in a student dorm watching lilsimsie build a student dorm
You're in the meta verse. 😂
Me too, and simsie's one is WAY better than the one I live in
I would never play university without the teleport cheat.
this.
If you use mods I think there's one for that. It's called "just go to class" or something similar
It is a little odd but I always liked the one giant bedroom upstairs in that house - its like that one private space you can pay more for (no idea if that's a real thing). One of my favorite playthroughs I actually had a couple get engaged right out of HS, go to Uni together, and share that space.
I think because it was a stand alone house, the double bed room was meant for student couples. Married student housing is a thing in some places, especially in freestanding homes, often those used to be regular houses that the university bought when they expanded, so there is one primary bedroom and some smaller bedrooms. Because it’s a regular house converted into Uni housing.
I'm bad cause I never loved in a dorm during university. I did community college my first two years so I could drive from home and when I transferred to an actual university for my BA I wasn't required to live on campus since I wasn't technically a freshman. I worked fulltime during Uni and had a few scholarships with a living stipend, so I had my own apartment all to myself. It's probably my most nostalgic time, because living alone was amazing and no one told me I couldn't make pudding at 3am if I had insomnia.
I actually love playing University (for a semester or two before I award a degree with MCCC lol) but I'm always off living off campus (as I did irl). My first/only dorm room building was just a couple stories of rooms with a bathroom between the rooms, "rec" area in the middle of the first floor and laundry/kitchen in the basement floor (it was lowkey terrifying) in a building from the 1950s with no A/C in the middle of a semi-desert area so literally anything would be better hahaha
1:58 I'm French and I didn't know that the expression "cul-de-sac" was used is english 😭😭 for people who want to know the translation for this, it's "bag's a$$"
And sorry for my really bad english...
i like to think that the reason for the upstairs being so fancy and the two downstairs bedrooms being literal dorm rooms is because the house is owned by a couple who rent out two downstairs rooms for maybe transfer students
I've been playing with your rebuilds for this world for years so I literally screamed when I saw this video, istg your rebuilds saves my game
I grew up with a sister, but sharing a bathroom with four other girls sounds like a literal nightmare. 😳😅
LITERALLY and I hated living in a dorm just cause the girls on my floors were messy and the bathrooms were trashed. When I got to move offcampus I moved with my best friend yea it cost more with just one roommate but idc
@@misselite4988 You bought peace of mind and you got to live with your best friend. Sounds like it was worth it. 💚
Wow I JUST renovated all of britechester and had so much fun with the Foxbury dorms. I play in Britechester all the time because it's so gorgeous even if the default builds are...lackluster.
Kayla saying “I’m gonna use my old dorm as inspo so sorry if it’s not relatable” but jokes on you we lived in the same exact dorms and this is the MOST relatable. Also, saying the showers were dark is SO REAL !! Like why were we showering blind ???? 😭😭😭
i would love to see more dorm builds , or that bad and empty student union
almost all of my legacies sims go to university but i haven’t lived in Britechester for ages
I’ve only played university once. Every-time I play it my files randomly get corrupted ☠️so I just pretend it’s England and put cc cafes and libraries in there
0:23 that horrible starter home from magic pack still tops all of the worst builds for me 😂
3:44 i think she might want a tiny kitchenette and tables downstairs yall
"i've got eyes, i can tell" caught me off guard LOL
it's interesting to hear people talk about mini fridges in their dorms, cause when i lived on campus, we weren't allowed to have one at all unless you had a medical reason + needed it for storing your medication. Granted, the dorms i lived in all had full kitchens (either shared with the floor, or just your 1-5 roommates) so, that likely played into it a lot. it's cool learning about how other countries do things, or even how different it can be within the same country.
The build turned out really cute as well, I think. The teal/greenish room on the first floor would be my pick if I lived there - it's such a nice colour to me. I'll definitely have to drop this into my new save and give it a go with a Univesity playthrough!
My sims can’t live at university because I will always get this error that won’t let me back on my game. No idea why. No one at sims could help. I have no mods 😅
I’ve been playing University and let me tell you, my biggest issue is that it takes an hour for my Sim to walk from his dorm to his classes. (A bike doesn’t really help, either)
Kayla: I shouldn’t use this table, I don’t want to use High School Years
Kayla 30 seconds later: yknow I really like these beanbags from High School Years
5:37 my biggest pet peeve about the game is how all the swatches don’t match. especially in woods for doors & windows that are supposed to go together from the same pack
I find stoves being banned really funny because my college did some have residential houses turned into student housing, but they still had kitchens. Even campus owned apartments had kitchens. Some of the dormitories had a common/shared kitchen. It was just the individual dormitory rooms themselves that were not allowed full size appliances.
I've never played in these sort of housing, why no one told me the grass was FLUORESCENT???? could greenscreen onto the FREAKING PATIO LMAO
For Maritime Manor I did 3 row houses for 1 - 3 sims each which was a nice way to switch it up.
I absolutely hate the layout of this default build but I dont ‘hate’ the look of the outside (i like that it matches the neighbors XD) so I’ve built a better layout and replace it everytime I start a new save 🤣
I renovated my university world and it was totally worth, it's probably one of the packs I use the most.
omg my irl dorm was on a cul de sac it had a courtyard opening up to it that would make a pretty build (shoutout sewall hall at CU boulder)
So spooky, I just did a dorm reno this week too! Not done one since the pack came out, and we've had ladders since then! 😂🙈 So did a sneaky ladder (bookself door) to the roof of Drake Hall for a party space. Used alot of werewolves pack (dont ask how they got a leather sofa up a ladder 😂) kegs, ping pong, the newspaper dance floor, fairy lights etc. If i had the basement kit, it would have been the vibe 👌
13:28 "i literally had a mini-fridge and a microwave and that is how i survived" 😂
Everything in this video sounds so weird for me since in Finland there are no dorms (in universities). There are student housing that have shared apartments as well as one to three room apartments for those who don't want shared aparments and families and such. And there are not even enough student housing for all so some choose to live in normal apartments around the city. I lived my first 1,5 years in a shared apartment with one roommate, and the apartment was basically just a normal two bed one bathroom apartment with full kitchen. The more I hear stories of dorms the more I'm happy about the situation here...
We couldn't burn candles in our dorm rooms, and we weren't even allowed to have wax melters :') But there was one kitchen in the entire building that you could 'rent' out, so my floor did a few dinners with everyone pitching in to pay for the ingredients and stuff
i always look forward to ur vids right at 3pm my time 💘
literally watching this as I put off moving out of my dorm. I am eating ramen and lilsimsie is my key to fixing junioritis
University windows and doors make a good summer shed aesthetic because of the panelling
When GT came out I started a legacy making my sim the brother of Don Lothario and I’m making my heir Lottie go to uni and you just made me decide which one she’s going to bc I’m using this build!😂
Challenge Idea: Make a house with nothing but "styled rooms"
Literally rely on your builds for every world 😭
Petition for Kayla to redo the entire University world. Because, yeah, the included builds are very lackluster 😵💫
I think she redid the world in her simsie save. Although it hasn’t been updated since I guess about Snowy Escape
most of my lots in the sims are literally most of your renovated ones 😂
It’s like you read my mind😂 I just raged quit and didn’t save because I couldn’t figure out how I wanted to change the sims dorms 😂
I love the build! Though I have to say it looks more like a frat house. I'd love to see you build a standard dorm building. You know with like multiple floors, 20 rooms, one bathroom and a shower room.
I bought University like 6 months ago and literally never played with it.
I'm currently doing a let's play where I play with a Sim from Birth to death. When my Sim ages up into a teen, I'm going to go to high school.
then im going to university when my Sims graduates high school and going to university to become a doctor, then I'm going to switch and play with Get To Work.
watching this on my last day living in a college dorm hits different
Loved seeing this university update. Always so talented! I will say, I think it’s actually pretty realistic for things to not be a perfect match. different vendors. upgrades at different times. But why everything. At least the doors & windows could be the same 😩
PSA to anyone who uses this build, the game may bug and not allow you to move a sim into this lot when enrolling, even though the settings are entered correctly. I managed to fix this by renaming it Maritime Manor. The game seems to only recognise it if it has its original lot name. Great build btw!
University just takes too long. Id love to join clubs and the secret society but I'd have to take less classes per week and then it would take forever to finish all 12. So i just use it as a skills and job booster only.
All I'm saying is that I think that if any part of such a small dorm building's roof was flat the residents would 100% climb up there for some reason
These days I always make all of them residential and just place students manually once the game generates them or play one semester in a dorm and then turn it residential and keep all my roommates.
University was the first expansion pack I ever brought for TS4! I was so excited to have add on content... i probably played 200 hours of it and every potential storyline to DEATH, so it will always have a special place in my heart
I’ve tried so many times to go to the classes in the Sims College pack and it’s impossible to have multiple a day and play and have your sims do multiple sets of homework without Cheats!!!
The university I went to owned an apartment complex where I lived for 2 years. My roommate and I shared 1 bed and a private toilet. The third girl in our apartment got her own room but we all shared the same shower in "her" bathroom.
I hadn’t played university in a long time but I re built the dorms accordingly, tried to match architecture and I think they turned out pretty cool!
Added more dorm like rooms and study rooms 😊
your nails are really pretty kayla !!
The way I’ve been playing so much university lately and am so excited for this video omg
I used to play university in the sims 4 but when I had to make a new PlayStation account I lost the packs I had before and university was one of the packs I had. Now I hope to get it again soon cause I miss it.
I love your style of the way your making the campus area look.
Dang, uploaded after my sim finished uni lol. At least i can use the build for the next gen! I think im sending all my sims to uni from now on
the no-stove rule is so annoying, so I use a mod to allow them. Considering it's based on the UK (Chichester, Chester, etc), you'd think they'd base the buildings on UK unis too, which are either halls with shared kitchens or normal houses that students rent out together
When I was in college I literally had no furniture when I moved into my first apartment so it was seriously like these big empty rooms 😂 I didn’t even have a couch 💀 we were sitting on lawn chairs
Hey Kayla if you are still wondering why they built the rooms like that, is because it is based off of a Sorority and that big room is probably the founder/ leader of the Sorority
I would LOVE you see another university lets play with lots of drama and chaos!!!!!!
I hate that you can't have ovens or even small grills on dorms. University dorms aren't a thing where I live (you just rent an apartment) but I used to live in a dorm back in high school and we had a full kitchen there and we were bunch of kids fresh out from middle school.
Love your builds so much!!! I would also love it if you had more one-storey builds pleaseeee my adhd makes playing in multiple levels impossible!!!
the lot and theme of the video reminds me of when I did the university dorm for one of simsie's shell challenges and it was so fun !!
Genuinely, I had such a miserable real life experience with my (very traditional looking) university, I have exclusively played in the modern university. I heard the traditional one doesn't have completely inconvenient stairs everywhere? That sounds like a game changer.
so thankful this vid came up in my recommended as i'm trying to move my sim into this very same lot at uni 😭😭 love ur vids simsie!
I have NEVER in my life agreed with anything more than this
Omg one thing that annoys me about University is that I decorated their dorm rooms but everytime they would leave campus some furniture would ALWAYS disappear and it was always the same ones (computer chairs and computers). Like why? It said I would have them in my inventory but they were never there and it would keep adding up to like 60 something chairs and 60 something computers.
Ive watch Kayla for hours every day for like a year.(RUclips and twitch)
i just started watching your videos a week ago and lemme just say your such a good sim creator!! i love your videos sm
What pushes me away from playing university is how empty the campus is!!! Like even events have so little sims it breaks my immersion
Kayak at this point they should just hire you to fix their builds lol
This build is going to go great for my Decades challenge household. I plan on following my sims to college at some point. Maybe the 60s or 80s
A basement with a pong table and some couches and clutter items downstairs would be so cute
She said: “A tiny kitchenette and some tables.” Three times 😂
university will always have a soft spot for me because it came out while i was in my first year of uni (like literally the day it came out was the same day my first midterm ever happened and i remember staying up until 1am bc that's when packs used to come out for me not to study and actually experience university for myself but to PLAY A FAKE UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE) but i will readily admit that it is a bad pack objectively
I love the teal room! I would kill to have that as my dorm room
I just have to say, I've just recently found your channel on here and I LOVE your builds! I've been playing the sims since it came out when I was 11 about 23 years ago, and I've never been able to do good builds. Would love to find some of your builds in game to use!!
The moment I saw the two bedrooms I thought - Jim & Jill bedroom/bathroom - cause I'd love to see lilsimsie build that.
I had a dream where the major update was in the discover University, and it was a small beach town college
There was a building on my college campus that looked EXACTLY like that weird student union, except ours was silver! so many of the rooms had weird windows.
this build gave me the most vivid memory of being in university and having to bring my little shower caddy into the shower and wear flip flops