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COLLEGE KID At Harvard, Zuckerberg took classes in psychology and computer science. He joined the university’s Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. At a party at the fraternity’s house one Friday night, Zuckerberg met Priscilla Chan, whom he would eventually marry. Between classes and fraternity activities, Zuckerberg continued to create computer software and started building websites. SOPHOMORE SUCCESSES During Zuckerberg’s second year at Harvard, the computer whiz created a website called Facemash, a very simple site that allowed users to see photos of two people and then vote on who was better looking. The site used photos of students at Harvard, which Zuckerberg got by hacking Harvard’s computer network and stealing student identification

photos. In its first few hours online, a few hundred people visited Facemash. Over the next few days, the site was shared with people around Harvard, alerting the school’s administration. They forced Zuckerberg to shut down the site and even threatened to expel him.

Zuckerberg didn’t graduate from Harvard, but the university played an important role in his starting Facebook. He received an honorary doctorate from the university in 2017.

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