1 November 2026 – Sunday
1 November 2026 – Sunday
Chief Editor & Social Media Manager | michele.forti@studbocconi.it | + posts

Just an average guy that read “On the road” a bit too soon and was led to tending to fall in love too much with too many things. Still in Bocconi, still trying to study Management of Government and International Organisations. I don’t know if I can say that I am a global citizen, I am more of a citizen that likes the globe.

America’s Fractured Soul

For the past year, I have lived in the United States as an international student, and I still find myself here, navigating the complexities of a country that, from an outsider’s perspective, appears to be perpetually at war with itself.
For the past year, I have lived in the United States as an international student, and I still find myself here, navigating the complexities of a country that, from an outsider’s perspective, appears to be perpetually at war with…

A Letter from New York: A Dissonant Tapestry of A Divided Country

Leaning on the corner of a building, I close my eyes and take in all the noise, the smells, the movements happening around me. Ah, New York City, the promised land, the land of the free. From here, it’s…

Hollowed out words

Journalistic profession is still putting reporters under great risk. What does that entail? Gathering insights from our Editorial Staff, it is possible to understand how we must strive towards upholding the value of words and bringing forwards the memory…

Rustin: behind the scenes of History

Let me take you on a historical voyage. Close your eyes (metaphorically). It is August 28th, 1963, you are but one in a humongous crowd facing the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. is articulating what…

Night stick: when injustice is left in the dark 

Riding my bike on the way back home from my weekend job in a bar in Milan, I found myself thinking about some news I had read during the day. Away from all the noise, the booze, and the…

Definition: a Rigid Impression. Can You Guess the Word?

The Ministry of Education guarantees the right to education across the whole national territory” (‘Il Ministero dell’Istruzione garantisce il diritto allo studio su tutto il territorio nazionale’). The website of the Italian Ministry of Education reads this statement while…

Una Big Three arcobaleno: è possibile? 

BCG. Competizione? Sì. E arcobaleno? Forse è il momento di rivedere molti preconcetti che manteniamo nella nostra mente, e che concretamente impediscono un cambiamento reale. Perché il cambiamento può partire dal basso, ma è quando viene incontrato anche dall’alto…

Attenzione! The government stopped responding 

Is it possible to draw a connection from TikTok’s sound “Attenzione Pickpocket” to Milan’s daily life? In case you were wondering, engaging in a few conceptual passages may lead us to unveiling that link, and I will try to…

Dear Italy

‘And here we leave just as we came / goodbye brother sea / I harbour a bit of your gravel / a bit of your blue salt / a bit of your infinity / and a little bit of…

Sorry, have I broken your fourth wall?  

An attempted link between Fleabag’s mastery of the technique and our daily lives  Whoops. The character from that TV series just glimpsed at you, did you catch that? If you did, then you probably know what breaking the fourth…

Do ut des: the frontier of volunteerism

How has volunteerism changed with the pandemic? Was it for the better? Asking ourselves questions, we could be able to grasp what is to be found at the core of volunteer work, even though the complexity that revolves around…

Bearing the gift

Flipping over the twisted rhetoric of maternity  Motherhood and making a career, known as an ever-lasting struggle. Maternity as a burden instead of a gift. Have we taken some time to ponder over where the unfairness of this comes…

Sitting on the fence: Day-to-day censorship of freedom of expression   

In times of difficulty, we tend to become more myopic and it is extremely complicated to make our way through all the complexities that arise around us as huge and shadowing. Afraid of stumbling into saying ‘something wrong’, we…

Slaves with laude

How being (excellent) slaves of competitiveness can put the true value of education in the shade   “In seguito a questo momento [di difficoltà e di presa di coscienza], in cui finalmente ho preso familiarità con tutte le emozioni, anche…

Gearing the importance of climate change towards all of society

Behind the scenes of PreCOP26 and Officine Italia As we have been hearing often lately, we are the last generation to have the concrete power to do something against climate change. The problem is that […] there is still…

“Bocconi life”: are we back?

Jumping back and forth, what is the direction we are taking, which is our destination? Let’s hear it directly from Bocconi people. Strolling around on campus, excitement is tangible and sort of enlivens all the areas around University. “We’re…

Ddl Zan: parola ai Bocconiani

Uscendo da un anno difficile come quello che abbiamo appena vissuto, ci troviamo spesso a chiederci cosa salveremmo, quali parti di luce saremmo in grado di estrarre da giorni pieni di buio. E forse è proprio quell’introspezione forzata da…

Who we are

In a flawed world packed with stories of injustice, why do we always have to feel as if we were the wrong ones? Erroneously craving for labels introduced by society, in the end we just dream of being who…

Walk me home

“Walk me home” is the result of a project carried out by a team in Tra I Leoni, which focuses on raising awareness and collecting data concerning topics related to safety in the city of Milan and street harassment…

“We All Bleed the Same Colour”: DoctorsinItaly’s #GiveBackToMilan

A talk with Nadia Neytcheva (CEO and co-founder of DoctorsinItaly) and Federico Poggio (event manager) led us to discover what this startup is about and why their event #GiveBackToMilan is an opportunity to think about our health, our luck…

Youth: why do we feel as if we had been “ripped off” of our time and what can we do to take it back?

Education as a life-jacket to beat the stasis Young men and women felt and still feel “ripped off” of all their youth dreams and possibilities, “robbed” of the memories they could have made, of the people they could have…