It is a typical Friday night dinner at Lorelei's parent's mansion. Rory and Lorelei, all dressed up, sit across from each other, eating silently, enduring yet another painfully awkward evening with Lorelei's well-meaning, but ultimately uncool parents.

Emily, Lorelei's mother, is a lifelong professional dandy who could out-bitch and out-classist Hilary Clinton and consults the same fashion designer as the former First Lady.

Richard, Lorelei's much more jovial father, is a career insurance salesman who is always working even when he apparently "retires." He is business-like in all of his personal mannerisms, save for always being sorely disappointed in Lorelei and always being positively delighted by Rory.

As usual, an uncomfortable silence reigns at the gaudy dining room table fit for royalty. Save for the chewing of food and the shuffle of the various servants coming and going, nary a sound can be heard.

Remembering the College Teas Paris hyped up and that one can bring a guest, Rory decides to break the silence.

"Say mom, if you're not doing anything this coming Tuesday, my dorm is hosting a College Teas and rumor is the guest is gonna be somebody big, huge even," Rory explains, looking up from her meal.

"College Teas? I hope they serve crumpets," Lorelei jokes, ever the foodie.

"Not literal tea, Lorelei. The College Teas are a very special event at Yale. Every residential college holds a few each semester. Basically, a distinguished visitor from the world of politics, the arts, academia, business, or the media meets with the students of a particular residential college in an informal setting. The students can ask him or her whatever questions they want and overall, it is more like a conversation between old friends than a lecture or a press conference," Richard, ever the cheerleader for Yale, elucidates for Lorelei's benefit.

"Yeah, mom, you'd like it. In the past, they've had people such as Mia Farrow, Brian Williams, and Art Garfunkel at College Teas," Rory adds, selling the idea hard.

"Wow, and this next guest is supposed to be big, huge even?" Lorelei wonders aloud.

"I don't doubt it for a second, Yale gets all the best people," Richard posits, and being the only multi-millionaire insurance salesman in the history of the human race, he would know.

"It truly is a wonderful opportunity. And remember its possible Rory will meet her future husband at college," Emily tosses in, picturing for Rory a life like her own.

"Well, kiddo, I'm sold, where do I sign up?" Lorelei addresses Rory, beaming and crossing her arms over her chest.