Posted Sunday, April 12, 2009 --- 5:42 p.m.

Cable media monster MTV is hours away from shining the national spotlight on Madison and the University of Wisconsin.

It's a reality show with a twist, with students taping their own stories, both good and bad.

The show's preview paints a wild picture. Everything that is freshman year at the University of Wisconsin they claim, filmed and documented by the students themselves.

"They're really getting things that you probably wouldn't get in any other show," Kevin Tracy said.

And they're getting those things from students who had no idea what they were getting into, going from freshman orientation to MTV star in a matter of days.

MTV executives say the idea came to them from a former UW student. By taking out producers and camera crews the idea is to get the freshman experience in its most raw form. Some of which aren't exactly the types of things parents hear about on a campus tour.

"Honestly at the beginning I wasn't expecting it to get picked up," Tracy said. "Then once it finally did get picked up I was like, 'Wow, maybe I shouldn't have filmed all those things."

From daily studies to off-campus parties these students are filming every aspect of their lives and now that the show is about to start airing some of the students are a little nervous about what the entire country is about to see.

"There's definitely going to be some things that I'm not too proud to show my parents," Tracy said. "But that's college for you, it's realistic."

"I'm kind of one of those people that believes everything happens for a reason," said Andrea Endries, another of the show's personalities.

A group of UW students that, on a whim, responded to ads about being on TV are about to have their lives out there for the world to see.