Blair, determined to have her Queen status at college, starts her first day at NYU along with Dan and Vanessa. However, Georgina, who was assigned as Blair‘s roommate, sets out to ensure that she does not retain her title. Serena gets ready to move into her dorm at Brown, but has a fight with Chuck before hand. This leads her to search out Chuck‘s enemy, Carter, to help her get even with him. Meanwhile, Nate and Bree‘s relationship continues to grow despite the tension their relationship could cause between their families.

It‘s college time in Gossip-land, and that means nothing remotely normal, as usual! While Blair puts on her "confidence headband," Dan grabs his "comfort bagel," and they both head to NYU. Serena is busy fake-packing her tube tops for Brown, but oops! She‘s not going to Brown, because that would mean filming in Rhode Island. Yeeeesh. So she got in, but now she‘s dropping out. Why didn‘t the Gossip Girl writers just get Serena into a college in NYC? I don‘t know, maybe they too deferred from their dream schools on the whim of becoming screenwriters, which explains why that sounds like a plausible and good idea to them, and also why sometimes this show makes no damn sense.
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