The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.
Are you sleepwalking?' A voice asked behind me. "I was testing dorm security," I said. "It sucks.
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books
Dorm-room life was a tough transition. You're young, and you realize how much you miss the comfort of home.
I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.
When I went to college is really when it became my own. I had to get up out of that dorm room and go to church, go to mass on Sunday. That's when I took ownership of my faith.
I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.
Most veterans detested training camp, but not me. I loved having a dorm room and a little fridge with snacks, and I looked forward to goofing around in the meetings.
From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.
For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college with a camera, other than me.
I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.
And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!
Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'
SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university, and it means a lot that they're supporting my music as I prepare to release my debut album, 'Cloud Nine.'
I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few months, I was doing shows across the country without a record deal, without a single, without anything.
I wasn't into going to college for four years and that whole dorm thing. I had such an aversion to it. It's an extended vacation, isn't it?
I wish I wasn't famous. I wish I was still in school
So that I could have you in my dorm room, how I'd put it on you
As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
It's incredible to be young and live here and not have to clean up your dorm room.
When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room.
I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."
Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.
When you come from living in a dorm room with no clothes, no girls, no cars, and then you go to having three cars, girls, and money, you can't help but be genuinely happy that things are moving in a positive direction.
I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room... with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.
I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.
Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.
You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. I didn't show up there to please anyone. After I was accepted, I wrote, 'The Audition's Over' and put it on the door of my dorm.
I wish I'd had more fun in college. I spent a lot of time in my dorm room, reading or writing while listening to my Sarah McLachlan Pandora station.
I wanted to go to NYU because I thought that was my best path to glory. I figured it was safer to move into the acting world in New York while I was living in a dorm.
There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.
Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.
I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'
The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers guidelines for creating a healthy lifestyle on your own, without the daunting restrictions of a quick-fix diet.
It's like I'm in a closet in a college dorm room.
Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.
My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.
The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.
I remember standing outside of the dorm by the little terrace. I was going to do this job that I wasn't 100 percent certain of, which ended up being much more fun than I expected [in So Notorious].
You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you - first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.
The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!
This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.
If you go to Wall Street, there is someone from Harvard, Stanford, etc, who relate to each other by the batch they studied in, the dorm they lived in, and so on.
My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.
I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.
You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.
I started my first business out of my college dorm room - DJ Connection - and grew it to more than 4,000 events per year. Sounds easy, but while doing that, I made every mistake in the book.
In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.
I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
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