I attended a scientific high school. I was mainly interested in chemistry and biology but, unfortunately, 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 prospective. But, I still read about these subjects from time to time.
Luckily (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 and so the blog idea just vanished because I found something more funny :).
4^th and 5^th year passed without any particular event for me. Some periods I was programming, some other period I was studying some specific subject.
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 and so I took the engineering test to get 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 near home), but for the experince of living on my own: managing expenses, buying food, doing the laundry, 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 .

I followed some classes, but I'm mostly doing stuff on my own. Well, also looking for a job :).