Once arrived, I started going around Milano checking the universities on my own and talking with different people and students: I didn’t want to make my choice online, I wanted to go and check it in person. Maybe because I was looking for the human side of the city. When I landed to IULM, I got a very warm welcoming from the staff, especially my tutor Michele who helped me a lot during the first settling weeks. I really enjoyed my three years at IULM university because I had the chance to get involved in numberless interesting extracurricular initiatives as the Theatre Lab, the social performance service at the Prison of Bollate (“Teatro instabile”), and become a performer in the concept kitchen of designer Gaetano Pesce for EXPO 2015. After my BA degree I graduated in MSC at Cattolica University.

When I was student, I enjoyed the multiple entertainment initiatives offered by the city, as living in Milano is way more than partying and drinking Negroni cocktails! Though partying was an important side of my student life, the city nourished my curiosity with cool and unexpected stuff: my advice for the newcomers is to go beyond the first layer of the city and look for the hidden, cosy, local and spontaneous events popping up around the streets. I strongly advice to make acquaintances within the Milanese!. I also got the opportunity to publish some of my photo-shots under a IULM students’ initiative collected in a book called: Raccontare Milano (you can also find it in Milano Public libraries)