Author Archives: Marina Chukhriy

Since the beginning of the semester the only thing that’s really changed about me is my stress level! I expected college to be challenging obviously but once you try to balance Baruch courses with whatever’s left of your social life, it’s not easy. Ive always been an A student but apparently I’m not in Baruch? I feel like I put in so much work but it’s still not enough. You can only push yourself so much you know? I’m already exhausted and it hasn’t even been one semester. Between the 2 hour commute and effing calculus, I don’t find too much time to sleep. Maybe its procrastination? I seemed to get past that already. I wish I could restart my whole semester especially that first calc exam along with the latest politics exam. Not the best start to college, to say the least. But since I can’t redo the semester, I guess I’ll just have to tough it out and hit the books even harder. Wish me luck because I’m going to need a lot of it!

Freshman seminar monologue

I don’t know where to start, you already know my name is Marina. You’ve also have probably noticed that I don’t hold anything back, I have quite a mouth. Lol its clear that I’m a very outgoing person and I speak my mind even though it gets me in trouble sometimes. Like I mentioned before, I’m your typical yet not so typical Russian girl. Yea I love designer bags and all that girly stuff but I’m like a guy when it comes to cars and sneakers. I bet you didn’t see that coming  

I was born in Ukraine but raised in Brooklyn for most of my life. Tragedy struck when my parents decided to move me out to long island two years ago.  My life definitely made a 180, I still can’t tell if it was for better or worse. I guess I’ll see with time.   

I love to travel. I can’t stay in one place for too long, I get bored very easily. I always dreamed of going to Dubai and finding myself a nice shah. I’m hopefully going over winter break, let’s keep our fingers crossed. This has to happen! 

Well enough with the things that I love, now for some of the things that I hate. . Let me start of with saying how much I hate fake people. Not fake in the sense of their fake handbags, but in the sense of their fake personalities. Why would you try to be someone your not? Your not fooling anyone. Why do people feel like they have to put on an act in order to fit in or please the people around them. Don’t try to please anyone else, please yourself. Be who you really are, don’t look at anyone else. It’s called originality; Websters can help you out . On that note, guys please look up the definition of swag because you got it alllll wrong. 

I’m a girl that knows what she wants, and when I want something I get it, no matter what I have to do. I’m very ambitious when it comes to my future, I know that I want to go into finance and international business; that’s where the big paychecks are. It’s probably the only field of work that could satisfy my needs and lifestyle. 

I’m trying to see the big picture that I call my life but there are many things that even I can’t control. All I can do is live life to the fullest and wait to see how things play out. 

Let me start off with my name, my name is Marina Chukhriy. I’m 18 years old as of May 14^th 1993. Born inUkraine, raised inBrooklyn; I still consider myself to be a true Russian girl. I’m the daughter of Russian immigrants and I came here when I was just 4 years old. I’ve been told that I am unlike any other girl out there; I’m actually pretty unexpected. I love cars, designer clothes, guys, exotic names, partying, tanning, shopping, racing, basketball players, and just chilling. I think I’m decently smart and somewhat talented. I’m a determined, intelligent, goal oriented person and I truly believe that I can be successful in my future… but we’ll see.

            As a freshman, my concerns coming toBaruchCollegeare getting those straight A’s! I need to figure out how to apply myself in order to get that 4.0 GPA. On a smaller scale, I’m concerned with my work load and how to efficiently get my work done on time. Another concern would be papers. Never been a fan of writing papers, nor have I ever been too good at it. I would defiantly need to learn how to write a paper in less time with better approach.

            So far I think that the independence in Baruch is probably the only difference I see between high school and college. I’ve always been independent through my studies in high school so it isn’t too much of a transition for me. But I have to see how the next few months go before I can see clear cut differences.

            I don’t necessarily think that college will change me, but it may change my working style and how efficiently I do my work. College could help me become more organized and broaden my horizons when it comes to fields of study.