When a young college couple gets into a routine of studying together, the boy questions his co-dependent habits and becomes frustrated with his girlfriend's attachment to him.

A first-generation college student, hours from graduating, dreads leaving school and her faculty mentor for the "real world" and her traditional, Eastern European parents.

At a New York university, an academically-gifted college sophomore becomes unlikely friends with a popular sorority girl on campus. Over the course of the year, their friendship slowly deteriorates, ending in lies, theft, and violence.

Despite being on the verge of failing his English class, a forty-two-year old college student finds himself saving a life at his university.

In hopes of finding a new school for his son, man tours the Academy, a military campus in its own little world, and decides to accept the school's seeming perfection.

A college counselor watches anxiously as her teenage son applies to college without her help. As her son plans for his future, the counselor and her husband reflect on how quickly their lives have changed, seeking ways to steady themselves in the midst of middle age.

An American student sent to study at Oxford University undergoes a mental crisis as he wavers between fitting in with his English peers and defining himself as an American who deeply loves the Midwest.

An accomplished, scholarly older man finds his lonely life momentarily invigorated by the presence of a young male student.

A female professor at a contemporary university remembers an old conversation with a former teacher of hers, which prompts her to reconsider her job, solitude, and love of reading.

When a charismatic new econ history teacher moves in next door and gains a mass following at an Ohio university, the physical education instructor wonders if he is really worth the hype.