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Meet Mirela Cholakova from Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She majors in Business Administration and Economics. She has been a Resident Assistant in Skaptopara II for three years and a member of StartUP@Blagoevgrad for a year.
- Tell us about your best and your worst memory at AUBG.
My best and worst memories at AUBG are both related to being an RA. Meeting first year students and leading diversity training and Orientation Week were some of the most exciting times for me. Of course, I have plenty of memories with my closest friends like going out, doing formidable homework, and studying late at night for hard exams together. What I have learned at AUBG is that even the most difficult tasks can be fun if a person works with people who he or she gets on well with. My worst memory is finding the balance between having to enforce rules and policies as an RA and being a friendly peer student. Such occasions can be difficult, but I believe that such events are necessary for us to grow as a community.
- What were you before? What are you now?
When I came to AUBG, I was definitely less confident in terms of international experience and being straightforward in all my activities. Being a part of the AUBG community has taught me to be more confident as it offered me the opportunity to communicate with many people and learn a lot about different cultures and nationalities. This has definitely made me more confident in terms of having accumulated global knowledge. Apart from that, I believe AUBG has showed me that it is alright to change your mind about what you want to do with your life and continue searching until you find whatever interests you. For example, I came to study Political Science and I was very straightforward about that. However, I found out that it is acceptable to switch even after you have started university and now I am graduating with a double major in Economics and Business Administration: fields that are totally different from what I started with.
- If you were 18 years old, what would you do?
If I had the opportunity to give a piece of advice to my 18-year-old self, I would tell her to have even more fun and enjoy even the most mundane things about everyday life.
- What word defines you best?
The word that defines me best is open-mindedness: I am open to new ideas, experiences, people, changes, problems, and new things to learn every day.
- What is the meaning of life?
The meaning of life is making a small step each day towards finding an activity that creates value from my point of view and pursuing it.
- You are awesome because...
I am awesome because I spent four years at an awesome place and I got infected by its awesomeness.
- How do you imagine life after AUBG?
Life after AUBG must include an exciting job in a team of great professionals ready to share their knowledge with me and, undoubtedly, spending time with friends and family.
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Our second senior representative is Alexander Lapshin from Ekaterinburg, Russia. Lapshin is graduating with a degree in Business Administration. Here, at AUBG, he got involved in TEDxAUBG, as part of the design department, as well as in the Marketing Club. Recently, Lapshin became part of the newly formed student-run company "Centroida."
- Tell us about your best and your worst memory at AUBG.
My best memory from AUBG is about our last TEDxAUBG event. The moment when I saw fire in the eyes of our team and audience, I realized that all the work we put into this event have just been payed off with the much higher interest rate. My worst memory is the illness in the middle of my first semester. I spent a week in a hospital and screwed up the semester because of that. Still trying to raise my GPA after that.
- What were you before? What are you now?
I was a naive teenager with no values and particular goals in life. What are you now? Right now I am ready to take risks and I let my passions direct my life. I am still not sure what to do with my future, but I am not afraid to meet any challenges.
- If you were 18 years old, what would you do?
My hairstyle.
- What word defines you best?
#relativelywild
- What is the meaning of life?
To establish a solid legacy for the future generations. To create something that will be remembered. To leave a significant mark in the history of humanity.
- You are awesome because...
Everyone is. This is a universal truth.
- How do you imagine life after AUBG?
There are going to be a lot of unemployed people. I am not going to be one of them.
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Meet our third senior - Anna Stoycheva from Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Stoycheva is graduating with a degree in Business Administration and Informational Systems. She has been an active member of the Broadway Performance Club for four years. In their last production "Catch Me If You Can," Stoycheva was the Director of the show. Apart from that, she is also part of the AUBG folklore formation "Svetlina."
- Tell us about your best and your worst memory at AUBG.
Best - I can't possibly choose just one, but let's say the opening night of Memphis, my first musical with the Broadway Performance Club. Worst - I honestly can't think of one. I'd say every Commencement during the last 3 years, because many of my friends graduated, but then again that's part of growing up, so I don't really count it as a bad memory.
- What were you before? What are you now?
Before, I was a kid that loves musical theater. Now, I'm that same kid, but I also got to direct a musical.
- If you were 18 years old, what would you do?
I wouldn't change a thing.
- What word defines you best?
Is there a word for someone who likes being lazy, likes to complain a bit more than they should, and loves music? Cause that would be it.
- What is the meaning of life?
42.
- You are awesome because...
I'm surrounded by amazing people.
- How do you imagine life after AUBG?
Hmm... I don't, just yet :) ... I imagine it being difficult, but bearable.
This article was a joint effort of AUBG Daily’s Owls Zhaklin Dib and Mina Dobreva.
