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Hooray!  It’s finally time to send Melody Tinker to college.  She’s escaping her house full of baby siblings and pregnant parents and striking out on her own.  

I have to admit, I haven’t gotten a really good handle on Melody this time around.  I mean, I know she likes her MP3 player.  I know she likes reading.  I know she actually was a good big sister this time around, whereas last time she really didn’t care too much for her younger siblings.  But as for what she really wants out of life, what her personality is like? I don’t really know.

Luckily, that’s what university is all about - figuring out who you really are and what you want to do with your life.  

In case you don’t remember (because I only mentioned it once, I think, and it was a while ago), the teens from Bluewater are going to attend Bright Lake University. I was going to play with the SSU premades, but decided against it before the start of this round.  I did make all of them into dormies, so they’ll be showing up.  In addition, Frances J. Worthington III is a dormie, since his family moved in Downtown during the Kim round.  We might see him around too.

Anyways, that’s enough blabbering from me.  Let’s get Melody into college! 

Melody:  *looking down at her outfit*  Whoa!  This dress is awesome!  I look awesome!

Stephen: *tearing up* My little girl...*grabs and hugs her tight*

Melody:  Dad...Aw, Dad, come on. Dad, not so tight!

Stephen: I’m just going to miss you!

Melody: *relaxes and hugs back* I’ll miss you too, Daddy.  I promise I’ll call you guys a ton and tell you all about what I’m doing. And you need to call me when the new babies are born, okay?  I’ll come home and see them right away. 

Stephen:  I don’t know what we’ll do without you around the house...

*taxi honks off screen*  

Stephen:  *reluctantly lets go of Melody*  I’d better get going.  You go and do great things, okay?

Melody:  You know I will.  *kisses his cheek*  I love you, Daddy. I’ll call home and let you know about my first day tonight, okay?

Melody may be in college, but she still loves listening to her music. 

Melody decided to save her fancy dress for formal wear, but she’s sticking with the red theme.  She is gorgeous!

Of course, being a Knowledge sim, Melody rolled a bunch of school-related wants immediately, so she got started on her term paper immediately.

I stopped Melody writing her paper when the dormies started arriving.  Because I made all the premade SSU students into dormies, we’ve got Castor Nova, Tiffany Sampson, Brittany Upsnott, Martin Ruben, Jane Stacks, Heather Huffington, and Allegra Gorey as dormmates. This should be interesting! Yay!

Melody headed off to class, looking gorgeous as usual.

Castor:  Homework is hard! 

Of course, Allegra and Brittany are at each other’s throats almost immediately.  I don’t know who started this one or if there was a reason why, but once they started, they didn’t really stop. 

Melody wasn’t all that interested in the drama.  She listened to her music for a bit and then called home. 

Melody:  Hang on a sec, Cadence.  I’m gonna have to call you back.  There’s drama behind me!

Of course, having Castor and all his admirers as dormies means that this was bound to happen.  I don’t know who he flirted with to get Brittany mad at him.

if you were wondering, Melody isn’t all that interested in him.  They have one bolt.  That doesn’t mean nothing will happen, but on the other hand, I’m not sure Mel wants to get into the drama.

After seeing Brittany’s face, I sent Melody over to tell Allegra to be cool.  She agreed, but I don’t know if it’ll stick...

Jane agrees with me.  

“It’s going to take some serious magic to get Allegra and Brittany to get along.”

Yeah, that’s a good idea.  I hope none of the other girls who like Castor are around to see that, Heather.  (It’s going to be really interesting to make him playable at some point and see who he actually chooses...)

Eventually I let Melody stop socializing and work on her paper like she wanted. 

And then the first semester was finished! On to the second one!  Melody even selected a major. 

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned Melody’s LTW or not.  She wants to be a game designer.  So I sent her to the campus arcade to meet people and play games.  Neither went particularly well...

Melody also stopped at the park.  She and Sam Thomas apparently do not get along, but she met a couple of guys too, and got along pretty well with them. 

Also spotted at the campus park.  

1. It looks like Brittany is making a friend for once. 

2. The cow went fishing. I don’t think he messed with anybody while he was there.  I’m pretty sure he was just fishing.  

Melody’s faces while chatting with her family on the phone.