About

Biography

One fine afternoon in October, twenty 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, 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 of modern existence.

I spent the first four years of my life in Baltimore, MD, followed by brief, but glorious stints in Irvine, San Ramon, and Seal Beach, CA, before returning to Irvine to complete high school. I graduated from University High School around the turn of the century, and soon thereafter, moved to Berkeley, CA, 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 BS and a BA. 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 employee in the vast expanse known as corporate America, working as a consultant based in San Francisco, CA. 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—to attend law school, that is.

My mid twenties were spent in Chicago, IL, at The University of Chicago Law School, an institution affectionately known by its students as the place where fun goes to die. In addition to learning copious amounts of law that will likely bear no relation to anything I ever undertake as an attorney, I also spent time as: a member of the Wine Mess Committee; an articles editor for the Law Review; and a part of the Exoneration Project, a clinical program dedicated to representing clients who have been convicted of crimes of which they are innocent.

Following graduation and armed with a JD, I moved to New York, NY, to reenter corporate America. And that's where I find myself today, yet another despicable yuppie seeking out life's higher meaning while engaged in God's work. It really does not get any better than this.

History of this Site

RohitNafday.net dates back to 2004. Though I purchased the domain name in November 2003, it was not until a year later that I decided to disaggregate the site that had previously served as both my home page and my blog, namely Rohit's Realm.

As I discussed in a blog post penned in December 2004, rapidly increasing traffic to my blog—not always the most sane of places—in the years since its launch had raised concerns of brand management. Put otherwise, with Rohit's Realm garnering hits for my often times profane and gratuitous writings, it was time to separate out content directed at friends and (some) family from that which was directed at the world at large. This was not, of course, an attempt to hide anything—a simple Google search on my name will lead to the Realm as fast as this site. Rather, it was a means of better targeting content to its natural audience.

The first release of the site contained a basic design and only static content. Over the years, I have tried to maintain this minimalist ethos. The site is still almost entirely static and actually contains fewer pages today than at the time of its initial launch. The last redesign occurred in December 2007, with significant tweaks to that design made in September 2010, to incorporate an elastic layout for increased accessibility and usability. That is the version your are viewing right now.

For details on the production of this site, see the colophon.