4 Years of Computer Science and Football

What do I have to say after studying computer science while playing football for 4 years at Queen’s? Sorry, not much guys. The experience did a lot of the speaking.

• Training for something is often the best part of it
• If not for entrepreneurship I won’t have loved computer science

The pattern has been that things are never straight forward, and the only true anomaly is when everything happens as it should on paper. I guess that’s a good thing. Like those well made old-school games, it’s never A, B, C. Usually to get to the finish point, you have to backtrack and find a new pathway or key that you missed in a place that you have already visited. When reflecting on how I got to where I am and how I can get to where I need to go, I learn that nothing has really been linear, expected or happened the way it that is was supposed to. I didn’t continue to play university football because I wanted to continue doing what I feel led to do, while applying the relentless ambition football added onto me to be able to do new things I would never have otherwise.

The thing that got me into football — wanting to train and wanting to get stronger is what enabled me to power though it when I had to make a post-surgery comeback at a crucial time. Part of who I always was — wanting to do my own thing and build up a business service for many others is what made me see the value of computer science.

There are many from childhood who know what they aspire to be — whether it’d be a doctor, a laywer or something of that nature. Some of us don’t know and just go along. Even up to the point where I was playing football whilst coding in university in order to either do the things I loved doing, do the things I was somewhat competent at, or just doing things in order to open up the largest amount of future opportunities by being safe and undecided. I finally got to the point where I at least know what I want to do, now I have to ascertain what I have to be if it could be aptly categorized. To those who live lives that look messy on paper, we were made for more anyways. Being patient in your confusion and unyielding in your aspirations is what we were meant to do.

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