Attended a scientific high school. I was mainly interested in chemistry and biology but, starting from the third year, it became just a memorization of rules, behaviors and nomenclature and so I lost interest in them from an academic perspective. But, I still read about these subjects from time to time.
Luckily (at least for me) in March of the third academic year there was the first quarantine for Covid and so I found myself at home with no school and no soccer. And what did I do in this period? I read many books of various topics. And, at a certain point, pops to my mind the idea of creating a blog about sustainable energy and electric cars. Hence, I searched on the Internet how to create a website and I discovered Wordpress. The free version sucked and so I decided to program my own website. While programming, I was adding more and more features to the website and after a while I was just adding stuff for the sake of programming and so the blog idea just vanished because I found something funnier to do :).
4^th and 5^th year passed by without any particular event for me. Some periods I was programming, some other period I was studying some specific subject. It has also been a period of un-learning because looking at my Reactjs and Nextjs projects I saw there was something wrong: a bloat of abstractions and dependecies. Anyway, left that apart.
5^th year come and I did not know if I wanted to continue studying or starting working but, I felt I still wanted to explore for a while and so I took the engineering test and got admitted to the University of Trento to study computer science.

I finish high school and on September I move to Trento.
The most important thing about moving to Trento was not for the studies themselves (I could choose Pisa that is near home), but for the experience of living on my own: managing expenses, buying food, doing the laundry, etc.
I also lived in a student residence and there I had the possibility to meet many international students from different backgrounds and cultures.
Instead, about the studies aspect, not everything clicked to me but few subjects intrigued me particularly (at the moment of the classes or in hindsight):

• Linear Algebra: 3D Matrix Visualizer
• Calculators: psychic-disco

After less than a year I already wanted to try something new so, in the 3^rd semester I moved to Estonia as an Erasmus+ Student.
There, I was also in a different cultural environment and in a land with a different weather to which I never got used to :). The university was structured in a different way compared to what I was used to in Italy, but I will not talk about it. There, I learned two things in particular:

• How to configure a switch and create a LAN
• How to build an IT infrastructure: ica0002

Shortly after I came back to Trento I started my first internship. Basically it was: "Hey, the infrastructure of our credit unions was built in COBOL over a period of 40 years and never updated. We would like to migrate it to Java". Frankly, not an easy experience. Indeed, I wrote an article about it: My experience migrating legacy code . It has been also the opportunity to experience the well-known corporate environment and understand that wasn't the right environment for me.

After this experience I wanted to start working for a company. I had little motivation to continue uni. I didn't start it for the studies themselves but for the experiences and to meet people and, after a couple of years, I felt I was ready to leave it. Sadly, after a couple of months of research I didn't find the job I wanted. Therefore, I decided to find a rent again and come back to Trento, even though in practice I already dropped uni: a waste of time and money.

Joined JETN, a students association that should offer services to external entities, in the newly created IT department. I said "should" because in practice it resembles the typical Italian environment: slow, with no clear purpose, bureaucratic, with bad management and of services just the shadow. Indeed, after few months, I, and others of the IT area, left.

Actively seeking a job again and at the same time developing side projects.
Goal: find a company focused on a product, composed of a small team, located in EU.
Conclusion: didn't find it. Some email here and there with shy replies and I concluded that websites like LinkedIn and Indeed are the most miserable and useless websites out there.
Anyway, about the side-projects instead, I think the most interesting to develop has been Postream.

Given I didn't find the company I was looking for, I first tried to scratch an idea with a friend of mine and then tried a crowd-funding to develop a software product. But, both of them didn't go well.