Mark Zuckerwerg on passing exams

Mark Zuckerberg reveals how he passed one of his Harvard finals without studying--while building Facbbook at the same time.

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00:00We're live back at Harvard. I am outside of my old dorm room, Kirkland House, age 33.

00:13So the final exam, the year that I was there, it was an art, I guess a literature and arts class.

00:20And they gave you 200 pieces of art over the period of the course, and on the final exam they were going to pick out

00:27three or four that you had to basically know the significance of and write an essay about the significance of them.

00:33But the problem is that I think I didn't go to class the whole time, right?

00:37And I didn't do much studying for it either.

00:40Instead of studying during reading period, I was building Facebook.

00:44So I got to this period a few days before the final where I'm like, wow, I'm kind of screwed.

00:48I took a break from building Facebook one evening to build a study tool.

00:52I went to the course website, I downloaded all of the images that we'd studied over the course of the class.

00:59And I made a tool where people could enter a comment about what was the historical significance of a photo

01:05and see the comments that everyone else in the class had added.

01:08And then I emailed this out to the class list and I was like, hey guys, I just built a study tool that's going to help us all study.

01:14And so I sent this thing out and within like an hour it was populated with just like distilled summaries

01:20of what was significant about every single one of the photos in the class.

01:24So that is how I passed Rome of Augustus while building Facebook during reading period in January of 2004 before launching.