 Peer recalled later that she "never meant to have a career", but after an inconclusive engagement with an unnamed man the spring of her senior year at Connecticut, she followed up on her experience at Connecticut by enrolling in the theater program at Columbia University.Her parents disapproved of her decision and declined to pay for the degree, and Peer dropped out from Columbia.An employment agency in New York City placed Peer with "Newsweek" as a copy girl.