 Kaling graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, in 1997.The following year, she entered Dartmouth College, where she was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Dog Day Players and the a cappella group The Rockapellas, was the creator of the comic strip "Badly Drawn Girl" in "The Dartmouth" (the college's daily newspaper), and was a writer for the "Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern" (the college's humor magazine).Kaling graduated from Dartmouth in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in playwriting.