I'm down to single digits with the number of lots still to finish for my huge University project (don't get too excited thinking this means you'll see it next week or anything, I still haven't done any of the testing and formatting yet and I'm sure that'll take ages too... ) and one of the lots I still haven't even started is the Secret Society. The university I've most heavily pulled from is Yale, which seems like it should be an easy match since the "Skull and Bones" society is a real-world secret society located there, but once again there seems to be a significant difference between real life and the world of TS2.

This being the case, what do you all do with secret societies? What kinds of buildings do you put them in, what kinds of activities do you have members participate in, etc., etc... What should I be considering before launching into this as one of the last elements of campus to be completed?

The Maxis Secret Society has benefits not normally available to YA sims, such as career and aspiration rewards. They are also really poorly laid out! Since it's supposedly an elite in-group club, when I built mine for LGU I made it an old-fashioned house with old-fashioned furnishings, but also modern socializing conveniences, and scattered career rewards around, with a chocolate machine in the kitchen, a cowplant in a walled-in part of the garden, mood-altering devices such as the noodle soother and bubble blower in a room upstairs, and of course the Bone Phone in the highest tower. My sims always have something more urgent to do on campus than hang around there, but if you include lots of skilling and socializing items you can make it worthwhile.

You can approach the topic from a lighter Sims perspective or go for something creepier, like in real life. You're really dealing with a subject that disguises itself as something very performative but actually has influence and is related to crime and mafia.