She started studying Latin in sixth grade, and said she loves "the neat combination of logic and math and literary analysis" in Latin classes. She especially liked her Princeton courses on Virgil's "Aeneid" and the Roman Republic, which she took her first year at Princeton.

Colson won the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and the Quin Morton '36 Writing Seminar Essay Prize her freshman year. Over the course of her Princeton years, she applied her writing and analytical talents to excel in her major in history.

A native of Manhattan, Colson wrote a junior paper about a 1741 slave conspiracy in colonial New York City. She wrote another about the American involvement in the 1953 coup in Iran;

however, her true love is 20th-century American history, she said. For her senior thesis, she examined the life of Edward Stettinius, who served as U.S. secretary of state under presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and oversaw the creation of the United Nations. No biography of Stettinius has been written, perhaps because he lasted just seven months in the position before being fired by Truman, who inherited him when Roosevelt died in office.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3006665&forum_id=2#28882760)

i liked SSM's shtick

this is like knowing there was no santa

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3006665&forum_id=2#29822319)