Liveblogging: Gossip Girl’s “Yale” Episode

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.

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LIVEBLOGGING OBAMACAIN AT COLUMBIA: 9/11/08

IvyGate is at Columbia University, liveblogging the ServiceNation presidential candidates forum.  Check in while we let you know our every semi-relevant (grammatical accuracy not-guaranteed) thought:

6:15: IvyGate is on Low Steps, currently an epic camping ground:

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