The CW has released a pair of sneak previews for "The Freshmen," Monday night's episode of Gossip Girl, and there appears to be a familiar theme:

It's not easy being Blair Waldorf.

In the clip below, the Upper East Side Queen B steps into a Greenwich Village nightmare as her NYU counterparts, including Georgina, fawn over ...

... Vanessa. Really. Check it out:

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Priceless. And it gets worse... or better? In the second clip, after the jump, Blair is taught a lesson in college culture and etiquette from Dan Humphrey ...

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