Our favorite character from The Paper (and personal hero), Amanda Lorber, is awesome for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is her ability to handle herself in a classy way despite stupid high school drama. Unfortunately for Amanda, drama has also followed her in the form of a Columbia University reporter who called her “overbearing and annoying,” among other insults. Amanda fired back with the most eloquent e-mail ever written by a 17-year-old.

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Last night was the episode of The Paper that we’ve all been waiting for: Amanda Lorber applies to NYU and – spoiler alert! – gets in. Video below.

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Did The Paper’s token treacle, Amanda Lorber, decline to reveal in a newspaper interview where she was attending school this fall because it’ll actually be part of an upcoming episode? (You know, the one where all the upper echelon students compete for those one or two spots available to each school, and backstab each other while offering false congratulations when they find out their friends were accepted to their own dream school.) Maybe. But now it’s been revealed Lorber is heading to the big city, attending NYU this fall and majoring in, what else, journalism. [NYO] She told the school’s Washington Square News that she hopes “to be kind of a normal student, not a girl that was on an MTV reality show.” Aww, sweetie, what a nice sentiment! And don’t worry, because with every NYU student lobbying to be more than Facebook famous, you’ll soon be just another nameless face in a sea of the socially awkward.

Can Jossip mascot and The Paper star Amanda Lorber just might make newspapers cool again? You know, among the kids! And isn’t what’s trendy among a generation of people who can’t even apply for a credit card all that matters?

Sadly, you already know the answer to this question, but it’s fun watching the argument get made about a little MTV reality show that’s turning geeky kids supplanting their social life with newspaper copy into tween idols.

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If you also have a new affinity for Mondays because that’s when MTV airs the BEST REALITY SHOW ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL EVER, The Paper, then you’re going to appreciate the treat we have in store for you below.

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