Jessica Lynch is heading to college: She'll be combining more than a fair share of street smarts as she cracks the books as a scholarship student at West Virginia University in Morgantown.

The 22-year-old former prisoner of war – whose dramatic rescue from an Iraqi hospital inspired the TV movie "Saving Jessica Lynch" – tells Time magazine: "I have to say I am a little nervous – the freshmen that I'll be with were eighth-graders when I graduated from high school."

Lynch, who hopes to graduate and become a kindergarten teacher, walks with a cane – the result of her two spinal fractures, nerve damage and a shattered right arm, right foot and left leg sustained when her Humvee crashed during the firefight in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah in March 2003.

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