Coming back to my own country required a lot of time. I beat around the bush for almost a year, then realized I was just making the right choice.

After my graduation here in Italy I had several jobs in my hometown, Modena, one of the strongest areas in the country in terms of driving economic growth. At that time, I was a fresh-out-of-college student, eager to learn and ready to put myself in a challenging environment so as to grow into and improve on my abilities.

However, all of a sudden, I ran into the opportunity to move to a foreign country, Romania, where I spent almost three years of my life.

At first, I was excited about leaving to discover a new working and cultural environment in which I thought I could learn better but now, in hindsight, I can say that this experience abroad was, for me, just good training before the match.

When I left, I had the professional experience of a twenty-five-year-old. There, I had the chance to work non-stop for years, I was focused and, when needed, stuck to my guns but one objective was driving me forward: that of coming back to my home country.

After these three years abroad, I realize how much I’ve missed Italy and, even though we are known most for our heritage and traditions, we are all investing in our country’s future.

My days back home started in Milan, when I decided to join MIP for one of its MBA programs. Despite all the clichés about Italy’s recent economic scenario, a new cosmopolitan scene is growing up; this surprised me and helped me to excel in my studies, in an international environment full of stimulus and opportunities.

I believe there’s something deep and intimate in the relationship we all have with our homeland, with the emotional and cultural humus of where we grew up, which gave us everything, and to which we’d like to give everything back.

For me, this relationship is more akin to happiness than the amount of money I earn or the speed at which my career develops  ̶  it’s more about the challenge that everybody experiences day by day in Italy as they try to reach the top of their field on a journey which can have many challenges along the way. But  ̶  maybe  ̶  all these difficulties make the conquest better and sweeter.

This journey has been made better and sweeter also thanks to the fantastic path that MIP is allowing me to follow with its International Part-Time program… an international experience in a great, challenging environment, based in one of the most innovative cities of the world, Milan.

That’s Italy,

That’s the MIP experience!

Never blow out the flame

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