IvyGate is camped out in the Barnard quad, watching (and liveblogging) Gossip Girl along with a bevy of enthralled Barnard girls.  And yes, this is the episode where Gossip Girl decided to film at Columbia and call it Yale.

8:01:  It’s starting!  Everyone is cheering.  This is going to be a long hour.

8:02  Apparently all of the characters are going to visit Yale.  Time to pile into their town cars and tell their maids to pack some argyle sweaters in their monogram luggage.

8:03: Oh, snap.  Serena just claimed that “Yale is for overachieving bookworms and preppies.”  Um…just Yale?

8:05:  “I heard Marc Jacobs named a purse after her” –Dorota, the housekeeper, on Serena.  Because we can’t all be BryanBoy.

8:08:  Chuck Bass wants to bone a bunch of women’s studies majors. A girl in the lounge whoops and yells “Barnard!”

8:09:  Apparently Chuck has a very different idea about the “freshman fifteen” than most of us.

Read more, after the jump:

8:12:  “There’s nothing like Yale in October” Gossip Girl narrates, as a shot pans Columbia’s Earl Hall.

8:14: “This is like an episode on acid” a girl in the lounge says, laughing, as Skull & Bones kidnaps Chuck Bass.

8:15: OMG NATE IS PRETENDING TO BE DAN HUMPHREY!!! Scandal!

8:16:  Blair just kissed her middle-aged Yale interviewer!  The lounge collectively gasped.

8:25:  According to Chuck, if the Dean likes your answer to his question “which person, living or dead, would you most like to have dinner with?”, you get on a “short list” to being accepted.  Shhhh, Chuck!  Don’t REVEAL THE SECRET!

8:28: That lit chick who was totes scamming on “Dan Humphrey” just found out mid-makeout that she was actually snogging Nate Archibald!

8:29: Blair is bribing the Dean’s secretary to put her on the list for the Dean’s dinner reception with a pair of porcelain cats from a Christie’s auction.

8:34: Chuck Bass just bought every Skull & Bones member a threesome with non-English-speaking prostitutes.  Guess that’s one night when they won’t be masturbating in coffins.

8:35:  Aaaand Skull & Bones still isn’t satisfied.  Per one Bonesman, Chuck has to get Nate to agree to “join” the society, since the Bonesman’s “family lost our compound in Newport because of his father.”  The lounge collectively snorted.

8:37:  Skull & Bones just kidnapped Dan Humphrey.  So, someone please tell me again why Skull & Bones is revealing themselves to kids who, uh, haven’t gotten into Yale yet?

8:38:  Blair swapped Serena’s answer to the Dean’s Question!!!  “Who is this person?” the Dean asked.  “Oh, he’s the man she killed,” Blair said with a bitchy, amazing smirk.

8:44:  Catfight!  Blair and Serena are having a catfight!!!  And OMFG Serena just ripped Blair’s “stupid headband” off amidst cheers from the lounge.

8:45: The sexual tension between Lily and Rufus is ridic!  Guess we know what they’ll be doing once the kids all go off to Columbia–I mean, Yale.

8:47: The drama never stops!  Apparently Skull & Bones didn’t want to tap Nate, they wanted to tie him nekkid to a statue…except they got the wrong guy!  Poor Dan.

8:49:  The real Nate Archibald comes to the rescue!  God…why isn’t he the one wearing nothing but his boxers?

8:53:  While all the seniors are away at Yale, little J is dropping out of high school…and her dad supports it.  But, yanno, gotta keep the plot moving somehow.

8:55:  Aaaand Blair and Serena stand on the steps of Earl Hall in ridiculous “flapper inspired” ensembles, pouring their hearts out to each other and making up as cheesy music plays.

8:56: OMFG!  Chuck planted lipstick cameras on the Bones Whores!  Apparently Skull & Bones is now under the control of Chuck Bass.  Oh, yesss.  Writers, more of this plot, please?

8:57: The Dean just called Serena on her cell to let her know that she’ll be getting in Early Acceptance…and Blair will have to wait until regular admission. And with a final pan of College Walk and a shot of John Jay (the girls in the lounge are shrieking), we’re out.