Rohit A. Nafday

Some day, in what I hope is the foreseeable future, I will wake up with the energy and motivation to develop a technically astounding, literally astonishing, thematically unparalled personal web site dedicated to my unquestionably trivial and marginalized existence. Until then, you will have to content yourself with this indubitably disappointing promise of a better tomorrow.

About Me

To make a rather long (and mostly pointless) story short, I am a 20-something graduate student, currently pursuing a J.D. at The University of Chicago Law School in Chicago, Ill. (more specifically, Hyde Park).

Prior to embarking upon a lifetime of potentially crippling debt and dubious career prospects (read: entering graduate school), I was a San Francisco, Calif.-based consultant at a large, multinational professional services firm, working in the ever-ephemeral field of technology performance improvement.

I completed my undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley (Go Bears!) and hold a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and a B.A. in Molecular & Cell Biology (Genetics).

For those strangely not satisfied with the above, you can read more about me here. Also, for more detail regarding my professional life, see my here.

Writing

Though I have been publishing content on the web since the turn of century, I don't quite fancy myself a writer—yet. However, I have never let such trivialities stop me from spewing incoherent nonsense for the unsuspecting online world.

Blogs

• Rohit's Realm
  Part unintelligible vitriol, part faux intellectualism, and part existential angst, the Realm, as it is affectionately known amongst its myriad (and by that, I mean 2) readers, defies proper description. Suffice to say that it is a semi-personal collection of my thoughts, observations, and rants dating back to my days as an undergraduate. Read at your own peril.
• 1524 SF
  A blog that my (former) roommates and I started back in 2006 while living in San Francisco, Calif., that I occasionally contribute to.

Short Stories

(coming soon)

Other

• The First Five Year Plan: The Best of Rohit's Realm, 2002–2007 (pdf, ps)
  A critical selection of best articles on rohitsrealm.com in the first five years of its existence, along with a retrospective.

Organizations

Current

• Big Brothers Big Sisters (Metropolitan Chicago) (2008–present)
  I am volunteering as a big brother to a fourth grader at Ray Elementary School in Hyde Park, Chicago, Ill.
• California Alumni Association (2005–present)
  Among other things, I volunteer as a interviewer for the Leadership Scholarship.

Past

• Taproot Foundation (2006–2008)
  I volunteered on two separate engagements to help Bay Area non-profits develop sustainable, effective, and maintainable web sites.
• Junior Achievement (2005–2007)
  I taught a class of elementary school children for one hour a week, five weeks each semester.
• DeCal (2005)
  I taught a 2 unit seminar on the history of conspiracy theories and The X-Files in Spring 2005 as part of the Democratic Education at Cal program.
• Residential Computing (2002–2005)
  I worked first as a Programmer, and then, Lead Programmer during my undergrad years.
• Cal Student Orientation (2003, 2005)
  I was a CalSO Counselor during the summers of 2003 and 2005.
• Office of Student Development (2001–2004)
  I worked in Academic Services (2001–2002) and was a Resident Assistant at Unit 3, Priestley Hall (2003–2004).
• Orange County On Track (1999–2001)
  I worked as a mentor for at-risk elementary school children while in high school.