Portrait of Master’s student Nektarios Totikos
Studying at TUM and writing his Master’s thesis at MIT was not a given for Nektarios Totikos, who spent part of his childhood and youth in youth welfare facilities. What got him so far? Intelligence, hard work and a great deal of perseverance.Nektarios Totikos wrote email after email, and each one was rejected. Then, after the tenth attempt, the good news arrived: He had been accepted to write his Master’s thesis at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. The plane left for Boston in July 2023. "I see everything as a challenge, I stay focused," says Nektarios Totikos in an online interview, smiling into the camera. ...