Sydney White (Amanda Bynes) is the daughter of a plumber, Paul White, and is simple, boyish, and easygoing (John Schneider). Sydney's mother, a Kappa Sorority member, died when she was still a child. She enrolls at SAU and pledges to her mother's once-prestigious sorority. However, she falls in love with a student named Tyler Durden, who tells her that he is a member of a punk rock group called Fall Out Boy. Sydney follows Tyler to his school where she discovers that he is actually the leader of the group. Disappointed, she goes home but not before destroying her sorority house in the process. Three years later, Sydney returns to school with a new look and attitude. She now has long blonde hair and is no longer friendly or polite. She also steals her father's business and moves out of his house. However, she soon realizes that she needs help running her father's company and reluctantly accepts this fact by returning to school as a graduate student. Sydney gets a job as an assistant manager at a store called Bon-Ton. One day, she is fired from this job after causing a scene in the department store because she believes that someone is staring at her. Later on, she finds out that she was fired because of her history of mental illness. Hurt, she quits her job and decides to move back in with her father.