I have been for more than 3 decades around the sun and have learned plenty of wonderful, painful, insightful life lessons. More than one-third of that time was spent in Germany. Here’s what I have to share from my knowledge about what I’ve learned and gone through while living in Germany!
I was born in Jaipur, the pink city of India, and brought up in a beautiful, small family with two parents, one grandfather, and an elder sister. I was loved and adored by my parents and my elder sister. Probably that’s why I became a rebel, kind of, not in a negative way though. In a way, I knew what I wanted and I would end up getting it or doing it. I am not talking about materialistic items like clothes, phones, or cosmetics, I never was fascinated with them, but with things that’d bring me joy and contentment. I wanted activities: Playing basketball, and tennis (couldn’t continue as it was an expensive thing to do), going on school trips with my buddies, going to NCC camps for weeks, helping friends in need, etc. I took this saying a friend in need, is a friend indeed quite literally when once in 7th grade, right one day before our final exams I gave my computers textbook to a friend of mine since she had lost hers. When my mum sat to revise with me that evening, we all understood, and it became evident forever, who’s the boss in the family.
I did my schooling in Sophia, Jaipur. I wasn’t – ever – the favorite of any teacher. Perhaps I was not their ordinary student. No, I wasn’t notorious, I wasn’t mean, I wasn’t a bully, I was none of them. I just had questions that others did not. I questioned things that others just obeyed. Sadly, I never got answers, instead each time in parent-teacher-meet I was titled as notorious – she has potential but uses it in the wrong direction and iska to kuch nahi hoga (she won’t be able to achieve anything in life) type kid.
In my 8th grade, when I was just 13 years old, it was clear to me I want to be a Computer Engineer. Not because I was the wisest of them all, but because it sounded cool and I could show off when someone asked me ”what do you want to become in the future.” With time, however, things got more clear (this excludes the subjects I learned in the school) along with all the other irrelevant things around. I wasn’t the best in my class, but I always gave my best, and I still do it. In my early school days, it became clear to me that competition is something you do with yourself and not others. The latter will mostly (probably always) bring you dissatisfaction and anguish. Here I was wise, I can say that.
I completed my bachelor’s and obtained my Engineer degree in India and loved each and every day I spent there. Remember, in my school, not the best, yet in my bachelor’s, I topped two semesters out of 8. I also flunked in one subject which I later cleared. Phew, I guess balance and some failures are all you need to have an amazing and interesting life. Bachelors’ life was fun: Falling in love, heartbreaks, crushes, fights with friends and boyfriend, patch-ups, bunking lectures, eating canteen Maggie, and studying in parallel to all this had its own flavor and joy. I had a bad break-up, from which I got out happily only due to my family and best friends. In 2013, I came to Germany to study Applied Computer Science. I have a specialization in Embedded Systems. I liked Germany from the beginning, but a few months later, I fell in love with it and its people, quite literally, and I’m here ever since. Currently, I have a PhD in Autonomous Driving and I’m working as Safety Expert in BMW, one of the most attractive OEMs in the World. I’m enjoying each and every moment of it. Doesn’t it sound cool? Wasn’t I just right back in 2003?
Want to know more about me?
Name: Nikita
Born: India
Now: Germany
Age: Does it matter?
Religion: Don’t follow!
Mental status: Healthy
Physically: Fit
Kids: Yes!
Job: BMW
Interests: Writing and making content on youtube
Hobbies: Can you have that after babies? Of course, I do. Cooking & Writing.
Inspiration: Everyone around me I take what(-who)ever inspires me!
Instagram: NoPlaceToBe 
Facebook: Nahh, too old school + a bad place to be!
Twitter: Yes, I am there. Go look for @NikitaHaupt.
If you are interested in my research work, go to Google Scholar!
If you want to write me, I’m here: hauptnikita@gmail.com
I also make videos. Go check them out on my YouTube Channel!
Here’s my LinkedIn!
