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Name: Ravi Popat
Year: 2016
Hometown: Milton Keynes, UK
Single/Taken/It’s Complicated?
Taken
What are you involved with on campus?
JumboRaas, TASA, SALAAM, intramural soccer (shout to team redundancy team)
What is JumboRaas?
JumboRaas is a competitive garba raas team that travels nationwide to compete. Sometimes we’re raasholes, but usually we’re just a bunch of derps.
How and when did you get involved with JumboRaas?
First semester freshman year, by accident (I even tried to skip my callback)
What is a typical JumboRaas practice like?
Very little dancing. A lot of gossiping, a lot of “water breaks” and multiple attempts at trying to make the NESCAC snapstory.
What is your favorite part about JumboRaas?
The People
What is the most challenging part about JumboRaas?
The People
Best memory/story with JumboRaas?
Winning Nachte Raho and our crazy trip to Purdue last year.
Most embarrassing JumboRaas moment?
There have been a few… When I went to open lessons my Freshman year I was the only newbie there…but I didn’t know that! I was really concerned when everyone was picking up the moves way faster than me (little did I know they’d had multiple years of practice).
Spirit Celebrity?
Ranveer Singh (look him up if you don’t know him)
Favorite dining hall meal:
As a vegetarian it’s gotta be the Veg Chix Fajita
Guilty pleasure?
Recently? Bieber.
Fun fact?
Up until the age of 12 I thought there was a separate plane that carried your luggage and it flew behind you…