Before he was accepted by Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg had the choice of going into business full-time, as his sister Randi Zuckerberg told CNN. “My dad, funny enough, right before each of us went to college, offered us the options of going to college or, like, investing in a franchise and running it,” Randi revealed. Mark, she added, would have been a McDonald’s franchisee.
Mark shared the moment he got his Harvard acceptance letter in a May 2017 clip posted to Instagram. The footage shows Mark — wearing pajama pants and a t-shirt — facing a desktop while his father, Edward Zuckerberg, does the recording. “Yay. I got accepted,” Mark nonchalantly says, to which his father responds with an enthusiastic cheer. Mark became a psychology major, but his time at the Ivy League institution was cut short when Facebook became a success (details on this later).
In 2017, more than a decade after he’d exited college, Mark was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Harvard University. In his commencement speech, he recalled his embarrassing first lecture, a lesson on kindness. “I was late, so I threw on a t-shirt and didn’t realize until afterward that I put it on inside out and backward — my tag was sticking out the front,” Mark narrated. “I couldn’t figure out why no one in class would talk to me. Except [for] one guy — KX Jin. He just went with it.” Jin, he said, eventually worked with him at Facebook.
