The Classroom Taught Me to Think. The Blockchain Taught Me to Build.

I'm a computer science student in Nigeria who writes smart contracts for fun and the longer I do both, the more I realize my university and my terminal are living in different decades. It is 7:48am on a Tuesday. The harmattan dust is already in the air. Somewhere on campus, a generator coughs to life. I am sitting in a lecture hall that fits two hundred people, watching a lecturer write pseudocode on a whiteboard, a pseudocode for a linked list implementation that was first taught in this exact format in 1987. I do not say this with contempt. I say it with the specific frustration of someone who went home the night before, opened his laptop, and debugged a smart contract that, if deployed wrong, could drain thousands of dollars from real users in under a minute. Two different worlds. Same brain. Almost no overlap. My name doesn't matter. What matters is this: I am a computer science student at a Nigerian university, and I am also, somehow, a Solidity developer. I write smart contracts.