Freshmen Susan, Esther, and Daisy try to avoid failing their classes, search for dresses for the holiday ball, and endure heartache in the last few months of their first semester at university.

Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.