I attended a Liceo Scientifico in my city, which focuses on scientific subjects.

Out of frustration, I decided to quit youtube since my perfectionism was making me anxious and depressed: everything had to be perfect and I could not allow myself any errors. I started playing some other games instead like Skyrim and Dark Souls 1 (fun story, I broke a monitor while playing DS1).

During this time I participated in several programming Olympiads and cybersecurity competitions. I was doing good in the competitions, reaching nationals every time. More specifically, 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. It was clear to me I wanted to be a computer scientist.

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