Hello! I'm Alessandro! I am 23 years old and I am a student of political science. I love reading (A LOT), watching movies, and listening to music.
For the most part of my life I have not been a creative person but, for a combination of reasons, in the last three years I have become super passionate about:
- photography (especially landscape),
- drawing (really bad at it, but I enjoy it so who cares),
- writing (mostly on my diaries, in the form of journaling), and
- I guess web developing now?
I have also played guitar for 6 months and then stopped for some reason (though my friends said I was good, so I might start again someday).
ACCESS LOCATION // ORIGIN POINT
I am from Francavilla al Mare, a small city in the beautiful region of Abruzzo!
Whether you like the mountains or the sea, Abruzzo has it all thanks to its geographical position that grants it a chunk of the Appenines mountain range (the one with its highest mountain, Gran Sasso, if I may add) AND a coast of some hundreds kilometers along the Adriatic Sea (not the cleanest water you'll see, but not too bad either).
The region is also famous for its food, most notably "arrosticini" (sheep meat in a stick), and its wine (not a fan myself but the New York Times says so)
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LIFELOG // CHRONOLOGY
I was born on 29/07/2002 in Rome, but I have lived most of my life in Francavilla al Mare. I have one brother who is three years older than me and many cousins who I grew up with.
When I was 17 I moved to West Vancouver, Canada, where I lived for 5 months hosted by a local family. In Canada I escaped the first COVID lockdown that blocked Italy and much of Europe. In those months I got passionate about nature and its exploration by foot (yes, hiking ahahah).
When I came back to Italy in July 2020, I decided I wanted to explore better my region. That summer and the next one I went (mostly alone) hiking on some of Abruzzo's most beautiful parks and I got passionate about mountaineering.
In September 2021 I moved to Milan to study at Bocconi University: I enrolled in the bachelor program of Economics and Social Sciences (BESS).
After my first year of uni, in June 2022, I left for the Camino de Santiago, my first long-distance trail and I fell in love with this way of travelling. Over the next years I did 3 more such trails (more informations on the Trails section).
In September 2023 I moved to Seoul, South Korea, as part of my exchange program with Korea University. I studied there for four months and I came back to Milan on December 2023. In 2024 I graduated from BESS and decided to stay in Bocconi for another two years to study for my master.
Tired and bored of all the abstract economic models, I enrolled in the Politics and Policy Analysis (PPA) course which I thought would suit me better (and overall I was right). This year, in 2025, I did my first working experience with a 3-months internship at the publishing house Terre di Mezzo Editore (I will tell this story in another page).
Right now, I am trying to enjoy my last days as a student before moving to the next big chapter of my life: a four months internship at the European Commission in Brussels (I'll keep you posted about that when the time comes).
PROTOCOL // MANIFESTO
Everything began on November 10th 2025. I had just finished reading Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism and I realized that I no longer wanted to be on social media. I found truly relatable and heart-breaking all the parts of the book in which Zuboff indulges in criticizing this system that big techs have built to first spy on us, and now to influence our behavior.
As a lot of people out there, I have grown up with the myth that progress (and especially digital progress) would make our lives so much better through the connections it would have allowed us to create. I am old enough to remember when the first smartphones were coming out and how cool they seemed to us all.
Little did I know back then that the surveillance capitalists would proceed to trap us with their tools and platforms up to a point in which to many teens and young adults a life without a cellphone and/or social media seems impossible.
As many others like me, I have a natural inclination to connect with other people and I will not let tech lords exploit it to glue me to a screen seeing things that make me sad, bad, and mad.
Not anymore.