In 2022, towards the end of the pandemic, my life needed to change. While I would love to pretend that I inscribed to the masters degree in the noble pursuit of knowledge, the true reason was due to boredom in my freelance fullstack job, feeling stuck and somewhat lonely. Having moved from Paris to Granada just two year before, my girlfriend and I had found out that the ideal size of a city to live in lay somewhere between that. Given that the city had nice beaches 1 and a great university, Barcelona was the choice we landed on. The somewhat costly move to another city coincided with my freelance project drying up, so in order not to starve, I joined a salaried position at Adevinta at the same time. Luckily, I was able to work out a deal to work part-time with them for the duration of my master's. Subjects The master's I finally landed on was the Master of Innovation and Research with the specialization advanced computing (what a mouth full).…