Plot summary
Bailey meets a guy named Cooper at his first day of college. Cooper convinces Bailey to take easy classes so he can make good grades and have time to have fun. Bailey faces a very difficult computer test and finds cheating as the only way out. At Grant High School, Sarah, Julia and Justin are seniors competing for a writing competition that gives a college spot. Sarah and Julia are writing about their family dramas and Justin decides to write about Julia's pregnancy, which makes her really furious. After Kirsten's boss discovers that she copied her essay from a book, Charlie decides to help her and accidentally finds her anti-depressives prescription. Kirsten reveals that she has been diagnosed as a manic depressive which the symptoms apparently surfaced the previous year shortly after their aborted wedding. She loses her PhD and her job.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, List of Party of Five episodes. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.