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Back in the fall, Wrather wrote an excellent series of posts on Gossip Girl in which he analyzed the  literary, psychological, cultural, and socioeconomic aspects of the teen soap opera.  However, six episodes into season, it seemed that the show’s second season was going to be a huge disappointment  and that the exploits of Serena, Blair, Chuck and company were simply not deserving of that level of scrutiny.  As a result, the project fell by the wayside.  Since then, the series has not only supplied ample guilty pleasures (including girls going wild, drunken rooftop-ledge shouting matches, and illicit teacher-student affairs), but has also provided substantial food for (over)thought,  most recently on the philosophical bases of punishment and the relationship between the police power of the state and economic elites.

Last week, Gossip Girl took a charming weekend trip, eschewing upper-crust Manhattan for upper-crust New Haven.

Though exteriors were actually shot at Columbia in Harlem (which, admittedly, seems farther away from the show’s fantasy upper east side than charming and quaint little Connecticut is), the characters were headed for a weekend of schmoozing and partying at that most telegenic of Ivies, Yale.

(Full disclosure: All of this blog’s writers met as classmates at that very college.)

So how does a real Yalie find his alma mater’s Gossip-ified TV depection? (Hint: less realistic than it’s Gilmore-ified version.) Read on to find out.