My Life amidst Computer Scientists and Software Engineers: the Union of two Disciplines

This article gives an account of my personal experiences as a foreign student studying outside my home country in Europe. The article covers the period immediately after my arrival in Europe. I give this account because having come from a developing country, sometimes, it takes a lot of effort to fit into new cultures (including new languages, new foods etc.), adapt to new ways of life, and at the same time pursue scholarship work. I believe students studying outside their home country have different experiences; be it students from Africa studying in Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas or students from those regions studying in Africa. Documenting these experiences can serve different purposes such as motivating future students that wish to study outside their home countries either by desire or by virtue of getting academic scholarships and sponsorship opportunities. The world is diverse, cultures are different, and experiences are enriching. The melting pot that brings all these together is documenting stories that the rest of the world can use as a source of information. In fact, we are living in an era where the oral tradition and folklores from the past may not apply anymore; virtually everyone is getting glued to the screen. As such, documented stories can be accessed via those screens from all over the globe. After all information shared is much better than information securely kept in the royal vaults of our minds; royal because of being unique and individualistic. Keywords: Academic mobility, cultural diversity, graduate education, information sharing