The 47-Hour Weekend

Ian and Jackson are in a roommate dispute. Jackson is going to drop out and Ian kind of needs him to stay - he's his only real friend at this school they transferred to. A two-dorm ski trip approaches and Ian ruminates over how Jackson, and others accuse him of thinking too much. Ian frets about where he will live next year if Jackson drops out. At the ski hill, Ian gets invited to ski on the periphery of the dorm bad boys and accepts, deciding that he is no longer going to think, but just go along. He ends up in a series of bootleg ski races staged by Jay Fenner, the lead bad boy. Ian soon finds out Fenner's group has reserved a sublime off-campus house for next year, and they have one room left. Ian's mission is set. As he hangs out with the bad boys, he alienates Jackson and his semi-friends, good people. Ian defends Nathan D'Andrea, a dormdweller he doesn't know, from verbal Fenner attacks, but continues to "not think." Ian intentionally loses a race not to show up Fenner's boys. Ian loses a love-interest by prioritizing his effort to curry favor with the bad boys. At least three guys are in the running for the room in the house. The next day on the mountain, Ian crashes on a jump and Fenner's boys don't wait for him. He ends up alone. A couple nice dormdwellers call out to him. They wait, and Ian skis with them, finally meeting for-real Nathan D'Andrea, the kid Fenner made fun of before. D'Andrea asks, "Why do you hang out with those dicks?" Ian is stunned someone says this out loud. Ian and D'Andrea hit it off and D'Andrea tells him he's got to go race against Fenner in the summit-to-the-bus final race and beat him. Ian obliges, but first Fenner says whoever of the three guys in the running for the room finishes first, gets the room. The race ensues, Ian's eyes on Fenner the whole time. Ian delivers a moral victory, beating everyone but Fenner. He turns down the room. He and Fenner get banned from the mountain by the ski patrol. Back on campus, the dynamic has changed at Riley Hall. Fenner's boys are diminished, Ian and D'Andrea are friends, making plans to get an apartment next year, and Jackson may even join, because he has decided to get off academic probation first, then choose if he will drop out. Ian starts going out with a girl from the ski trip, another type who has been accused of thinking too much.