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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Colby chapter.

Year: 2013                           
Dorm: Woodman     
Major: English
Favoritedining hall: Foss
Hometown: Milton, MA
Relationship status: Single as can be
Three things you can’t live without: Jerry Garcia, Freud, Lattes
Interests: Psychology-Spirituality, Dancing, Baseball, Pipe-smoking, Grateful Dead shirts, Hawthorne/Melville
Favorite movie: Almost Famous
Favorite song: Sugar Magnolia
Favorite professional athlete: Jon Lester
Favorite book: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
 
What do you do on campus?
I frequent the weight room with the pitching staff, dance around, dress according to moods, drink coffee, write poems for P. Harris, play the Dead good and loud, and converse deeply with anyone willing to light the fire of the soul.
 
What’s one girl trend you don’t understand?
What ever happened to women wearing flowers in their hair? And headbands, and bandanas?
 
What do you look for in a girl?
A sweet and lovely girl, spirited – with a mind that doesn’t mind floating up to the clouds, and beyond.
 
What’s your best feature?
Best ashch in the NESCAC?
 
Which author, dead or alive, would you want to write your biography?
Nathaniel Hawthorne — He’s authoring my life right now.      
 
What’s your favorite quote?
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense.”
 
What’s cooler than cool?
Colby Baseball
 
What’s the first CD you ever bought?
Led Zeppelin III
 
Write your memoir in 6 words…
Adventurous, BufChicken, Southpaw, Air-Guitar, Honey, Curveballs
 
Finish this statement…if I had a million dollars I would…
ensure the safety of all the little gray squirrels that live on the Hill.
 
What makes you quintessentially “Nate?”
Quintessentially? Waking up, taking in the rising sun, drinking a cup of Joe, putting on “Ripple,” and reading my friend, Emerson.

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Eliza hails from Cambridge, MA. She is a senior English major with a concentration in creative writing at Colby College. She has been working with Her Campus Colby since it launched. At Colby, she is also mentors a little girl twice a week and cooks at the Mid Maine Homeless Shelter. She knows more about sports than most boys-- especially Boston sports-- her one true love. But she also has a passion for classic literature, fashion, and modern art.
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Brett is a senior at Colby College. She is an international studies and anthropology double major, and spent her first semester of college in Dijon, France.  She enjoys writing, traveling, Gossip Girl, and Thai food. Already having interned at fashion designers and magazines, she is excited to contribute to Her Campus! She is also a certified personal trainer and loves working out.