Adrit Rao at the University of California, Berkeley, where he's a freshman. Adrit Rao Adrit Rao, 18, learned how to build apps in middle school by watching YouTube videos. A cold email to a Stanford professor led to a job at the university, though not to admission as a student. Now a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, he balances classes with a full-time AI job. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Adrit Rao, a freshman at the University of California, Berkele