Josh (Tom Everett Scott) gets into college on a scholarship, and Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is assigned as his roommate. Cooper does little work and instead spends all the time partying and consistently fails his courses, but his father continues to pay his tuition. The normally studious Josh is led astray by Cooper's lifestyle, and spends the first half of his first year partying instead of studying, and consequently fails all of his exams. To his horror, he then finds out that a condition of his scholarship is a passing mark average each year, and that with his poor midterm score, he needs an A+++ (which is impossible) in all of his courses or he will lose his scholarship.