ABOUT
Professional Bio
Despite the incredible genetic opportunities that came with being born into a family of mathematicians, computer engineers and scientists, Olga Belogolova has skillfully been able to avoid all practical and lucrative career paths. Instead, much to the dismay of and despite the earnest wishes of her kind parents, she chose “the arts.”
The end results of this choice are still to be seen, but Olga was lucky enough to remain a massive nerd in the face of her questionable career choices. This nerdy behavior began to present itself in the early stages of her high school career, where she was President of French Club, Vice President of Latin Club, Class Council member and Co-Founder and President of Model United Nations. This heavy involvement not only allowed her photo to appear on almost every page of the club roster in the school yearbook, but also found her waking up at 6 a.m. to decorate the school gym before pep 
rallies.
Thinking that these activities were clearly not enough, she joined the school paper and started writing and copy-editing. Her love of journalism/writing was born and she continued to pursue it in college and afterward. Since then, she has been published (perhaps because of talent; perhaps sheer luck) in The Student Operated Press, The Daily Free Press, OC METRO Business Magazine, OC FAMILY Magazine, Boston magazine, UniversityChic.com and Encore Magazine. In addition, she has contributed two chapters to U Chic: The College Girls Guide to Everything. In the spring of 2009, she was also lucky enough to be chosen as one of 10 journalism students nationally for a journalism press trip to Jordan in honor of Sixty Years of Friendship.
Other Things You Really Ought to Know
Like many journalists, Olga is an insomniac, doing some of her best work in the wee hours of the morning. With many all-nighters of practice throughout her high school and college career, she has become virtually unable to process any practical or logical information before she has eaten her breakfast. Those who know her well know that it is wise to stay silent and distant from Olga while she is in the waking stages of her morning, much like it is wise to stay as far away as possible from a hungry lion in the Serengeti desert.
Though she has yet to visit the Serengeti, Olga really enjoys travel and the study of foreign languages. Coming from the Soviet Union to America at the age of 3, she was forced to simultaneously learn English (for survival purposes), while speaking Russian at home. Since then, being the overachiever that she is, Olga has studied Hebrew, French, Latin and Italian.
Having grown up adoring Coco Chanel and Christian Dior as well as the masterpieces of Claude Monet, Olga has come to love dresses, hats and shoes to an unhealthy degree. The number of each of these items currently in her closet is not to be disclosed, due to reasons of shock value and the hope that respectable audiences will continue reading her biography. Much to the relief of her waning wallet, however, Olga rarely purchases anything of any fancy designer value. In addition to enjoying the obvious bargains that come along with this philosophy, she is also cautious of her unfortunate tendency to lose things. Having lost two cell phones and an infinite pool of sunglasses, she just knows better.
Despite her usual elegant and age-appropriate appearance, you will often find Olga climbing trees and finding nearby playgrounds to visit. Other unladylike behavior that Olga exhibits is through her love of food. Unlike many women, Olga will usually opt to order the meaty steak over the dainty garden salad.
Of course, it certainly doesn’t help that Olga is a major klutz. She falls on anything and everything. From running into a door and breaking several toes to falling on a cement pool deck or breaking both her middle fingers playing basketball, she has had her fair share of accidents. All of this can be evidenced by the state of her legs, where the stitching, scarring and spraining make postwar Europe look like a field of peaceful flowers.