Kelsey at Yale

The Girl Next Door Podcast

Kelsey Wharton

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4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Join us for a conversation full of fall leaves, cozy libraries, and tradition. Erica interviews Kelsey about her time at Yale as a graduate student! Erica asks all of her burning questions, and Kelsey invites you to stroll down Ivy League memory lane with her.

For Friends of the Show on Patreon, Kelsey is telling us what she would do differently if she were going to relive her time at Yale.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. In every episode, we bring our different
0:09.4	perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this show
0:14.7	years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh
0:19.0	about yet. On today's episode, I will be
0:22.6	interviewing Kelsey about her experience going to Yale for graduate school. Did you know this about
0:27.8	Kelsey? Whenever I remember that she went to Yale, I have so many questions. Like, it dawns on me
0:33.6	every once in a while and I'm like, wait, what? That really happened? So we thought it would be an interesting topic to bring to the show. So I'll be asking her what it took to get into Yale,
0:42.4	what being at an Ivy League was really like and what her most quintessential Yale experiences were.
0:48.2	And then for friends of the show over on Patreon, Kelsey, we'll be telling us what she would do
0:52.5	differently if she were to relive her two years
0:55.1	at Yale. Okay, let's get into this. I've always wanted to deep dive this. So you went to Yale.
1:00.4	This is such a fun fact about you. Tell us your Yale origin story. How did you get in? What did you
1:05.5	study there? How did you even, this is what I always want to know. How did it even appear on your
1:10.5	radar as a possibility?
1:12.1	Yeah. Yeah. So I went to Yale for graduate school. I earned my master's degree there in two years
1:19.2	in environmental science. And where did you go for undergrad again? I went to the University of Texas at
1:24.1	Austin. So I was at Yale from 2006 to 2008. So as I was getting closer to
1:31.7	graduating in 2006 with my undergrad degree, I studied natural sciences. So I was into biology,
1:40.1	environmental sciences, all of that stuff. It never really occurred to me to go to medical school.
1:46.3	I knew I didn't want to do that. But I definitely felt like I wanted to keep going to school.
1:50.8	Okay. Part of that might just have been that I was like, I don't know what job I want.
1:54.3	Yeah. And I'm good at this. Yeah. I was, you know, and I think when you're in a science,
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