If you want to know what Mindy Kaling’s life was like in college, “The Sex Lives of Colleges Girls” takes place in a similar setting. The girls in the show go to a prestigious college on the east coast and Kaling went to Dartmouth College which is almost an identical campus (via Bustle). She earned a bachelor’s degree in playwriting when she graduated in 2001, per The Dartmouth. In a Nov. 21, 2021 interview with Bustle, Kaling revealed that she planned out exactly what she wanted to use college for. She planned to “sing with an a cappella group, join an improv comedy troupe, and write for the college’s humor magazine.” And just like Bela on the show, Kaling wanted to eventually be on “Saturday Night Live.” It’s very ambitious, and Kaling knows this. “I was almost diabolical in how planned everything was,” she said. “I did not care at all about academics.”
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In an interview with The A.V. Club on Nov. 18, 2021, Kaling shared that she loved her time in college. But unlike the girls on the show, Kaling revealed that because she was “sexually repressed as a kid,” fear of sex followed her into adulthood too. “I’m Indian,” told Bustle, “My parents were not telling us about sex, and it was taboo growing up.” She shared that “sex scared [her]” and that partly influenced her to write about it.
