Nektarios Totikos has just returned from the USA. The euphoria hasn’t worn off yet. When he tells how he made it to Boston, to the elite university, he seems confident – and yet sometimes still amazed at his life’s path. The 28-year-old spent a year researching artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). America, MIT – that is the dream of many students. Only the best are accepted there. The fact that this dream came true for the Munich native was anything but predictable.