Riding on the rails of opportunities: from Makerere University to Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The last encounter that was elaborately documented was on my experiences as a mobility student at Makerere University, Uganda. The experience was life changing and the door was left open for grabbing the next available opportunity; the opportunity to ride on the rails of academic mobility. Words once confessed are very powerful; you become what you confess. Thoughts are things and they resonate (of course at a certain frequency) with the universe to become true. For a record, I joined Makerere University in Uganda in August 2014 to pursue M.Sc. Data Communications and Software Engineering. The mobility was supported by the METEGA project. The project focused on the Mobility of Engineering and Technology Graduates in Africa – METEGA. For two years, I was at the Department of Computer Networks, School of Computing and Informatics Technology at Makerere University following the footsteps of academic icons in the region. The experiences during my entire stay in Kampala were life changing; the people I met will remain heroes and heroines in my life. I successfully defended my thesis and graduated in February 2017. And now I am on a new journey in Brussels, Belgium pursuing a PhD study. In this paper, I highlight the experience to date.