ОЧЕНЬ сомневаюсь насчет "chuck"

neglect, abandon, give up on ONE'S studies

>ОЧЕНЬ сщьневаюсь насчет "chuck"
Я тоже!

Regarding ONE'S, I did check and found many examples without it, and not only in titles

Mice infestation hits King's College London causing students to abandon studies

students are more likely to abandon studies when these are shorter

Female college students are more likely to abandon studies in science, technology, engineering and math

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https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=I+abandoned+*+studies%2Cyou+abandoned+*+studies%2Che+abandoned+*+studies%2C+I+abandoned+studies%2C+he+abandoned+studies%2C+you+abandoned+studies&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CI%20abandoned%20my%20studies%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Che%20abandoned%20his%20studies%3B%2Cc0

That looks like “telegraphic” English, which is often used in the press to reduce verbiage. In that style, it’s common to keep things “general” by reducing articles and specifying particles.

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