I attended a scientific high school. It was interesting until the start of the third year, when chemistry and biology were still integrated with physics and required logical thinking. Then, it became just a memorization of rules, behaviours and nomenclature and I stopped studying them. (Btw, I still have interest in biology and have continued to read about it from time to time, but for now it is postponed).
Luckly, at least for me, on 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, I'm not even sure why, but 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 seek of programming. Something clicked with the programming activity and so I dropped the blog idea and I continued programming random stuff.
4^th and 5^th year passed without any particular event for me. Some periods I was programmimg, some other period I was studying some specific subject.
Anyway, at the start of the 5^th year I did not know if I wanted to continue studying or starting working. But, I felt I still wanted to explore and so I took the engineering test to get admitted to the University of Trento and 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), but for the independence from my parents: managing expenses, buying food, doing the laudary, etc.
Also, I was living in a student residence and there I had the possibility to meet many international students from different backgrounds and cultures.
Instead, about 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, on 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 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

Little after I came back to Trento I started my first internship. Frankly, not an easy experience. 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 translate it into Java". Indeed, I wrote an article about it: My experience migrating legacy code .

Currently I'm interested in browsers and I'm creating webapps/games to explore the browser API as much as possible. I'm also continuing uni, but at a slow peace given I'm interested just in a couple of classes.