Birth of an actor

"I will not give up my dream of being an actor. I will call Amon Goffman when I arrive in New York." Christopher Evans clenched his fists and said.

"Come on." William smiled, "Remember to tell me the good news."

After hesitating for a while, Christopher Evans still gestured for a call: "I have given you my home phone number, don't forget to call me and tell me your Harvard address, we can still write— Will you answer my letter?"

"must."

William and Christopher Evans high fived again.

From Los Angeles to Boston, the 3000-day journey of [-] miles is finally coming to an end. Christopher Evans will take the subway home to continue his high school life, and William will go to Harvard to prepare for the commencement ceremony. The two are at the subway station in Boston say goodbye.

"Maybe we should get together more on weekends. Cambridge is not too far from Boston." Christopher Evans didn't want to go to the subway station so early to buy a ticket to go home. He still had a lot to say: "Can you Tell me more about Hollywood? In return, I'll bake you delicious cupcakes that will definitely bring you to tears."

"Baking? You?" William raised his eyebrows.

"Don't underestimate me, I'm good at baking. I baked the first plate of cupcakes by myself when I was nine years old. How many people cried and begged me to open a shop after eating it, and I didn't do it." Christopher Evans held his head up Chin down like a proud chef.

"For cupcakes' sake, I'll say yes, and hope it lives up to its name."

"Absolutely, unless you hate desserts. By the way, what flavor do you like?"

"Caramel vanilla."

"I knew we were destined! I love this taste too!" Christopher Evans jumped up excitedly: "Then it's a deal! We get together occasionally on weekends, and you taught me how to be an actor , I will reward you with a very delicious cake!"

"It's time for you to go home." William looked at the sky, the orange sun was moving down towards the horizon from among the skyscrapers.

Christopher Evans nodded, but his expression was still a bit reluctant.

William felt he should give Christopher Evans a hug, and he did.

At first Christopher Evans looked a little flattered, but he quickly grabbed William's back and murmured, "Thank you for everything on this trip, the carnival in Vegas, the sunset over the Grand Canyon, The football game in Chicago . . . the best trip I've ever had."

"You're welcome, Christopher Evans." William patted each other on the back.

Maybe it was two men (one of whom was obviously underage) standing at the entrance of the subway station and hugging each other to bid farewell. strange gaze.

"It's time for me to go home." Christopher Evans let go of William and said, looked down at his T-shirt again, and suddenly smiled: "If I told Carly that I hugged you, she would definitely be in a week." The inner capital forbids me to wash this dress."

William: "..." He was getting more and more worried about the day when he would actually meet Carrie Evans, and his instinct told him that there would be such a day.

Christopher Evans, ready to go home, waved to William before walking into the subway entrance: "Bye, Will." Then turned and walked in.

"Bye, my friend," William said to Christopher Evans' back.

……

Christopher Dixon walked with a suitcase in the old corridors of the Elm Building at Harvard, looking at the names on the door plates of each room as he walked, until he saw the sign of "Christopher Dixon, William Bradley". He stopped and pushed open the door.

The room was far better than he had imagined: the historic furniture and wallpaper, although it looked old at first glance, gave people a very warm feeling.Two queen size beds, one by the window and one by the door, each with a wardrobe, desk, bookshelf and chair.The bathroom is small, but clean, and there are no obvious and suspicious stains on the warm yellow tiles, which shows that the previous owners of this dormitory have maintained them very well.

It's just that the room is empty, and it's obvious that Christopher Dixon's roommate hasn't come to report yet.

After hesitating for a minute, Christopher Dixon chose his preferred bed by the window on a first-come, first-served basis, then opened the suitcase, hung all the clothes in the closet, and speculated about his future What kind of person is your roommate.

God bless, don't be a messy, lazy guy who can't survive a party and who hugs a girl every day in front of the dorm and gnaws and gnaws.

Although Christopher Dixon wears a plaid shirt (the color is either red and black or red and blue), a hooded sweater, loose jeans, and canvas shoes all the year round, he goes to the barber once a month and has a hairstyle that hasn’t changed in five years. The biggest hobby is playing computer and going to the library. He is called "Nerd" (nerd) by countless people who know him or ridicule, but he is a gentle, thoughtful, and clean "Nerd", of course I also hope that my future roommate will be someone who has the same interests as me... At least not a very difficult guy, after all, even if the dormitory is reassigned in the second year, they will have to spend a year together.

Reminiscent of the housing application he submitted before the start of school, Christopher Dixon thought again, since he has made it clear which type of roommate he hates the most, the freshman director shouldn't deliberately assign him the worst option, right?

Speaking of which, I would like to talk about Harvard’s freshman dormitory system: Harvard freshmen do not arrange accommodation collectively according to the majors of the colleges, nor are they randomly assigned by the computer according to the freshman list, but are arranged by the freshman directors one by one dormitory Carefully matched.

In the summer before admission, along with the admission instructions and bills of Harvard University, there is also an accommodation application form mailed to the freshmen. Freshmen need to fill in this important form in detail, because it is related to their first academic year, Even for the entire four academic years, the application form includes a lot of personal questions such as how many roommates the freshmen hope they have, their hobbies, learning characteristics, social habits, etc. After the application form is sent back to Harvard University, the freshman director Based on these tables, we will carefully allocate nearly 2000 freshmen to hundreds of 17-2-person dormitories in 6 freshman dormitory buildings, and try our best to ensure that the freshmen in each dormitory are complementary and like-minded. .

When the first school year is coming to an end, the first-year students will be reassigned to 13 dormitory groups for grades 2-4. When the second grade starts, they can go directly to the new dormitory to register, and their first-year dormitory buildings It will also be reserved for the next class of freshmen - at this time, it is very important whether the students and their roommates in the first grade are compatible. If they are compatible, they can submit the application for accommodation together, and they will still live together in the 2-4th grade. But if they don't hit it off, what awaits them will be a reassignment. This time, there will be no freshmen director to make a painstaking match, and the second time will be completely random.

After Christopher Dixon hung up all his clothes, the door of the dormitory was pushed open again, and a young man walked in, dragging a huge suitcase.

'oh! ’ Christopher Dixon froze when he saw the young man’s face, he couldn’t help thinking: ‘Is this my roommate?But he looks like he should be sorted to Elliott House. '

Elliott Building is one of more than a dozen well-known residential buildings for undergraduates at Harvard. It is a replica of the architectural style of Oxford and Cambridge. The residents are almost all social elites from private high schools in aristocratic cities such as New York and Boston. The interpersonal relationship between friends is "more Harvard than Harvard", known for indifference, power and enthusiasm for clubs.

That's right, every dormitory building at Harvard has its own culture, because even the freshman director, who most hopes that Harvard students can complement each other and make progress together, will not randomly combine a loyal believer born in a Christian family with a firm and even It is the extreme atheists who are assigned to a dormitory. Because the freshman director fully respects the Harvard freshman dormitory application form, most of the students living in a dormitory building have similar or even the same interests. Over time, each dormitory building has formed its own Different, but unique styles, such as Adam House students are keen to hold various grand sports events and masquerade balls, Lowell House advocates British retro, their waltz dance and spring Dionysus Festival are famous , and the dormitory students in Elliott House are almost all social elites, or the kind with good backgrounds.

In fact, the young people who pushed in through the door were not dressed too much, at least not like the pretentious dressing style of many rich kids in Harvard who claim to be the elite of the elite. However, the simple white T-shirt without a jacket perfectly outlines the upper body curve. The plump chest muscles fully support the upper part of the T-shirt, but the waist looks thin and soft, unlike other fitness trainers or bodybuilders. The champion's muscles were hard and rough, revealing a strong masculine aura, and their lines were soft and fresh, just like the handsome face of the visitor who was almost perfect, but didn't seem aggressive because of his well-bred.

Inexplicably, Christopher Dixon felt that the person in front of him looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.

"Hi, I'm William Bradley, English Literature major, from Los Angeles. Are you my roommate?"

There is almost no accent, and it is impossible to tell which city he is from. If he insists on speaking, he has a little accent that sounds like he has a good background and education—but after the young man stretched out his hand and greeted him in a friendly manner, Christopher Dixon was relieved. It was much better than expected. Although he looked like a person from Elliot Building, his speech and behavior were not like that.Those rich kids who went to a private noble high school wouldn't speak so friendly to a person who was dressed like a Nerd.

"Yes, I'm Christopher Dixon, an MBA from San Francisco. You, uh, you can call me Chris."

"Ha, another Chris. In fact, I still have a friend named Chris." William thought of his new friend Christopher Evans who just broke up with him at the subway station, and smiled apologetically at the roommate in front of him, Chris. She smiled: "In order not to confuse the two of you, can I change my name?"

Christopher Dixon shrugged. "Cliff, Topher, whatever, just don't call me Dick."

In addition to being used as a personal name "Dick", "Dick" is sometimes used in slang to refer to a penis.

William laughed. "I wouldn't call you that, don't worry, then, Topher?"

"No problem. So what should I call you, Bill? Will? Willy? Billy?"

"My friends call me Will."

"Okay, Will." Christopher Dixon said with some embarrassment: "I came a little earlier than you, so I chose the bed first. If you prefer to be by the window, we can change it."

"It's nothing, Topher. The bed near the door is also suitable for me. I have the habit of getting up early and running. Do you want to come together every day?"

"Uh, no, thank you." Like all the "Nerds" in the world, Christopher Dixon's attitude towards exercise is as little as possible to keep fit: "Since we are going to be roommates for a year, I think we should Agreed on some dorm conventions? Like cleaning and bringing mates back."

"That's exactly what I mean," William replied very cheerfully.

Next, William and Dixon, no, Topher made a dormitory agreement together, although currently there are only two items: "take turns cleaning the bathroom" and "do not bring the opposite sex back for the night".

Through a brief conversation, William discovered that his roommate was a very knowledgeable and knowledgeable academic master.Although the other party looks mediocre and dressed casually, it can only be seen from the fact that Christopher Dixon has just graduated from Columbia University with a philosophy major, and he is studying at Harvard with an MBA major—Harvard is one of the best universities in the world , and MBA is one of the best majors at Harvard - you can't judge by appearance, Christopher Dixon is at least the kind of person with a very high IQ.

Perhaps because of his birth and growth in San Francisco, although Christopher Dixon studied philosophy at Columbia and came to Harvard to study for an MBA, he himself is very interested in technology, machines and even games. Very excited.

This state was inexplicably familiar to William. He remembered a word "Geek" (geek) that would become popular in later generations, a movie he had seen, and those people in the movie.

Which movie is it?

Oh, yes, The Social Network.