Felicity Porter, a perceptive and bright young woman from the San Francisco Bay Area, chooses to forgo her acceptance into Stanford University’s pre-med program to pursue her long-time infatuation by attending college in New York City. Her life becomes even more tangled when she falls for her dorm’s resident advisor. The series is grounded in introspection and character development, highlighted by her habit of recording audio diaries on cassette tapes to send to her best friend in California.