A Willing Ambassador

With a scholarship from a Cayman financial institution to help finance his dream, Rohan left his Caribbean home determined to make the most of his time on the Forty Acres.

"I came from a small island, and UT was the world to me," he says. "It was an eye-opener in terms of all the offerings there, and the idea was to take advantage of it all. There was no way I was going to come to the school for four years and limit myself."

While earning degrees in accounting and computer science, he immersed himself in the culture of Texas - football, food and music - and took on a role of ambassador for his home nation to help his fellow Longhorns learn a little bit about the world. In his second year on the Forty Acres, he co-founded the Caribbean Students Association and later served as its second president.

"Even though we embraced the Texan culture, we kept our own culture - that was our grounding, and we didn't want to lose that," he says. "Texas opened our eyes, which made us better people, and we hopefully opened students' eyes about the Caribbean. It was a win-win situation."