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He said the dorm he ultimately slept in doubled in population, to its full capacity of about 90 people.

He worked on the grounds crew to help pay his way, and continued on to Harvard, where his dorm mates included Mark Zuckerberg.

“One of my favorite things has been seeing people watching the show in their dorm rooms and common rooms, maybe with new friends,” she says.

On the night TJ McGee overdosed from a mixture of drugs and alcohol in his freshman year at UC Berkeley, his friends found him passed out in the hallway by their shared dorm room.

He introduced himself to his freshman dorm mates by performing one of his compositions, “7 Minutes in Heaven,” “a cappella, acting and singing all the parts as they sat on the bed facing him, gob-smacked.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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