By Michelle MaltaisJuly 9, 2012, 7:45 a.m.

With a hop, skip and a jump from Harvard to Haiti, Mark Zuckerberg‘s freshman roommate is on his way to the London Olympics in a quest to change his status to “gold medalist.”

Triple jumper Samyr Laine, Facebook’s 14th member, is competing for his parents’ homeland, which is still recovering from a devastating 7.0 earthquake in January 2010. The country’s budget is less than half the size of Facebook’s market cap, according to Bloomberg, and its track and field team is a mere fraction of America’s.

Although his head is trained on the track in preparation to compete on the world’s premier athletic stage, he took a little time out to chat about his college days.

Relaxed, real and ready for the world — that’s how Laine described the founder of Facebook as a freshman. Nothing like the moderately neurotic, over-caffeinated, Type-A version in “The Social Network,” which Laine hasn’t seen  and thinks totally missed the mark, so to speak.

“The portrayal of Mark in it isn’t accurate at all; it’s pretty fun,” Laine told The Times. “…First of all, he’s not that eccentric.”

That said, Zuckerberg wasn’t ordinary — though he did manage to enjoy his freshman year, according to Laine.

“Coming out of high school you could tell that he was on the verge of doing great things,” he said.

Laine, the son of Haitian immigrants, is no slouch himself. He’s a Harvard alum with a law degree from Georgetown. He managed to study for and pass the New York Bar exam while training hard for the 2012 meet of his life. No small feat.

Laine is American by birth; his parents emigrated from Haiti in the 1970s. In the country of 9 million, only 1  in 5 athletes born there is qualified to represent Haiti in London, according to the New York Daily News.

As he envisions making a jump of more than 17.65 meters in the Olympic pit, he intends to remember his parents’ homeland. He has started a foundation, Jump for Haiti, to benefit the cash-strapped and facility-poor athletics community in the country.

For now, Laine has his head right on track.  “I want to push my body to do what I know it’s capable of and to do what it hasn’t done yet,” he said.

And, he said, his very own Facebook friend would likely be cheering him on.