Rashida Jones attended Harvard University, where she lived in Currier House and Eliot House. She belonged to the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club, Harvard-Radcliffe "Opportunes", Black Students Association, and the Signet Society. She was initially interested in becoming a lawyer but changed her mind after becoming disillusioned by the O. J. Simpson murder trial. She became involved in the performing arts and served as musical director for the "Opportunes", an "a cappella" group, co-composed the score for the 149th annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals performance, and acted in several plays. In her second year at college, Jones performed in "&lt;a href="For%20Colored%20Girls%20Who%20Have%20Considered%20Suicide%20/%20When%20the%20Rainbow%20Is%20Enuf"&gt;For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf&lt;/a&gt;", which she said was "healing" because she had been seen by many black students as not being "black enough". She studied religion and philosophy and graduated in 1997.