I attended the Liceo Scientifico "Enrico Medi" where I participated in programming Olympiads and cybersecurity competitions. I was doing good in the competitions, reaching nationals every time and this made me choose the path ahead: I wanted to be a computer scientist. In particular, I participated in the cyberchallenge which is an university CTF competition and I arrived first place and competed in the nationals. During this time, I met probably the greatest programmer I know, Leonardo Taccari, which is part of the board of NetBSD and a true UNIX fellow. I asked him suggestions about books to learn UNIX and he suggested me "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment", a book that I bought and read all the way in the following months. Later this book would influence me to dig deeper in operating systems and UNIX kernels and stay close to the operating systems world.

Yet, I was a very shy and introverted person. On my last year of high school I began pushing myself out of my comfort zone and participating in some activities like theater courses. This was the bravest decision of my life and It would change the course of it. Slowly, I started getting used to going outside of my room and being surrounded by other people, something I was greatly struggling (and still do sometimes). I also met F which helped me a lot with my self confidence and isolation.

The last year I did creative writing, public speaking and theater. I also travelled by myself for the fist time: I went to Sicily several times, I still remember those days vividly, then to Florence for a performance and to Turin for the national final of the cybersecurity olimpiads. I graduated with top marks and I started writing my diary.

I continued my studies in Computer Science in Trento, in the Italian Alps.

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