I’m still becoming the person I’m studying to be.
Daniel Adebayo is a B.Sc. Computer Science student at the University of Lagos, currently in Year 3 of a four-year programme, expected to graduate in 2027.
His academic interests sit at the intersection of software engineering, data systems and human-computer interaction — with a growing curiosity about artificial intelligence pulling him toward research as graduation approaches.
Outside coursework, most of his learning happens by building: small tools for real problems he or his classmates actually have, documented here rather than left in a forgotten folder.
Computer science felt like the rare subject where understanding and building are the same activity.
What keeps it interesting isn’t any single language or framework — it’s the pattern of taking a vague, human problem (a scattered study group, a slow booking process, an inaccessible interface) and turning it into something precise enough for a machine to help with. Some semesters that pull comes from theory: a proof that finally clicks, a complexity bound that explains why something feels slow. Other semesters it comes from HCI, from watching someone actually get frustrated with an interface he built and realising the fix was a design decision, not a bug.
Artificial intelligence is the newest thread — not yet formally studied, but already shaping which electives and personal projects feel worth the time.