Kensie is from a small suburb of Chicago. She never thought of going to a university out of Illinois but she finds herself at Riverside University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She packs up her stuff and moves into a dorm on the small campus and begins a renewed life in Oklahoma. After missing her summer birthday her uncle sets up a big surprise in Chicago. Kensie is excited and what she experiences makes her wish she had never gone to a college so far away from Chicago.