wait wat
Dude you've never played life?

Greatest part is you are already playing. You level up every morphday, which is the anniversary of when you first joined the game. Pretty much level 1 - 5 or 6 is tutorial, but then at about level 6 or 7 they let you go to "school" and that's when the game actually picks up.
Right now I'm on level 17 today. Which I had thought meant I'd be getting the rocket launcher. Stupid me missed the fact that this walk through was written back in 2005 before they updated to version 5.4. Apparently level 20 is now rocket launcher.