Yesterday I had my last class lecture of my bachelor degree in computer science. This concludes a period of three years where I dedicated all my time to studying and mastering my crafts. From my part, I rarely skipped a lesson. In fact, I count less than 10 lessons I did not attend for various reasons often not in my control, I have always showed up even when I did not feel like going and that kept me motivated to push through all my exams. Now I will take some time to reflect on what has been, all while studying for my last three exams.

What I am most grateful for is being able to dedicate to my studies fully, which is really a privilege and It won't happen again, I am on my own now. In three years I rarely "unfocused" and when that happens I would feel lost, thankfully I could dedicate my entire wake time and my energies to programming and studying programming and open source projects which is so important for me.

Did everything go smoothly? Was everything the best It could have been? Absolutely no, yet I stopped thinking about what could have been and instead I learned to appreciate what I have now. Probably about 80% to 90% of my time getting this piece of paper of a degree was not worth It, I had so many terrible exams where I learned nothing, yet I did so much more outside university like a graphics engine, an operating system, I hacked with the Linux kernel for hundreds of hours and I have developed some expertise through these projects.

If you don't know, Italian universities are very theoretical. I didn't do many projects, anyone could get this degree with very little knowledge of programming. Exams are hard, sometime unreasonably hard depending on the professor, and the future is really uncertain for students unless you emigrate to other nations. Such is the situation, or at least how I am perceiving this right now. You see me complaining now, however I rarely rant on things; I prefer getting things done without much talk.

Even if I have so much to learn, I now know a little bit more than before. It never feels enough, but It is progress and I trust the process.

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