What I learnt in Computer Science

I dropped out from an undergraduate course in Computer Science (CS, for short).

While I was attending CS courses, however, I learnt how to detach myself, or abstract myself, from technological tools, which, as a so-called ‘digital native’ may know, changes ever so frequently.

I learnt that if I have a fundamental skill, or what (one of) my lecturer(s) called ‘first principles’, I can solve a given problem, regardless of how seemingly foreign the problem may be.

Applying this concept in another context, it could be said that if I know the fundamental skills in social dealings, then regardless of which country, or culture, I find myself in, I can thrive (and not merely survive - but that’s a topic for another time, perhaps).

That’s powerful. That’s empowering. (As the saying goes, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him once. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a life-time.”) And it gives one confidence. It certainly gives me confidence.

But of course I credit all these lessons and benefits, or perks, to my god and his kindness and goodness.