About Rohit

Biography

One fine Monday afternoon in October, 20 odd years ago, I arrived upon this planet, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fully prepared to embark upon a journey of assured meaninglessness and futility. My parents named me Rohit (pronounced Ro as in row, hit as in hit), which in Sanskrit, refers to the reddish rays of light at sunrise or sunset. Ironically, I would quickly become known for reveling in the darkness and platitudes of modern existence.

I spent the first four years of my life in Baltimore, Md., followed by brief, but glorious stints in Irvine, Calif., San Ramon, Calif., and Seal Beach, Calif., before returning to Irvine to complete high school. I graduated from University High School in June 2001, and soon thereafter, moved to Berkeley, Calif., home of the hippies, heretics, and homeless, to attend the University of California, Berkeley (Go Bears!).

At Cal, I studied Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Molecular & Cell Biology (emphasis Genetics), earning both a B.S. and a B.A. Some of my prominent activities on campus included working as: a CalSO Counselor, a Resident Assistant, and first a Programmer, and then, Lead Programmer, at Residential Computing.

Upon graduation, I found a place as yet another worthless and expendable employee in the vast, abysmal expanse known as corporate America. Two years later, having added inordinate amounts of value through utterly unremarkable activities, I emerged from the corporate world to embark upon a lifetime of potentially crippling debt and dubious career prospects, i.e., professional graduate school.

And that is where I find myself today, as a first year law student at the University of Chicago Law School in Chicago, Ill., an institution affectionately known by its students as the place where fun goes to die. It really does not get any better than this.