our existence has serious side effects

you know you went to humboldt state when…

this happens to people you used to know. 

Christina Degiovanni, a Humboldt State University student, was arrested Thursday after drug task force agents confiscated two pounds of processed marijuana, two rifles, a handgun and $49,000 in cash from her boyfriend’s Arcata home where Degiovanni had been staying, according to a release.
The Humboldt County Drug Task Force responded to the Arcata home after learning from Reno police that Degiovanni’s boyfriend Scott Porter, 35, was involved in possible narcotics courier activity on a passenger rail train in Reno. Reno officers seized approximately $73,000 from Porter’s luggage during a narcotics courier sting. Porter was released at the scene but faces possible charges in the future.
Upon learning about the sting, Arcata task force agents responded to Porter’s Arcata home where they made contact with Degiovanni. According to the release, agents were able to smell the odor of marijuana coming from the house and secured a search warrant for the residence.
Degiovanni was arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana for sale and being armed during the commission of a felony. Degiovanni has been booked into the Humboldt County jail.

compromising.

so i found out yesterday, on my last day of finals, that i was accepted to umass as a transfer next year. while i’m not surprised that i got in, i’m still extremely happy and relieved, because waiting for my admissions decision, after getting in a relationship, finishing up my year at umass on exchange, putting down a deposit for an apartment in amherst and generally being in the midset that i would stay here, waiting for a yes or no answer was starting to stress me out. 

unfortunately, although i got what i wanted - i got in to the school i love as a legitimate student, i get to live on my own in my first apartment, i get to stay with the girl i love and friends i love - those things come at sort of a price.  

because i had so many random credits racked up at humboldt between PE credits from when i did crew, random seminars and credits from remedial math classes, i was much further along in terms of reaching the 120 minimum amount of credits for graduation at humboldt. at the end of this semester at umass, once all my credits were transferred to humboldt, i would have ended my junior year with 91 credits. unfortunately, pretty much all of those miscellaneous credits don’t transfer to umass. so instead, i’ll be finishing with 81 credits.  this leaves me needing to take at least 39 credits next year to graduate on time (which absolutely NEEDS to happen now that i’ll be paying out of state).  

suddenly my stress-free and school-free summer during which i only intended to be working my ass off to make money to pay rent now includes $2,800 worth of credits for two upper division anthropology classes that i’m taking for my minor, in order to lighten my course load for the actual school year. i think everything will work out fine, in the end, especially because after i knock off 8 credits off the 39 i’ll only need to take 16 credits one semester and 15 the other, which is more than doable. but i’m still stressed. i’m stressed about money, i’m stressed that somehow i won’t be able to do it, i’m stressed that something will go wrong because i’ll barely be scraping by with the minimum amount of credits. i know that going to humboldt would have been far more logical in the end than staying at umass, but i made the decision to be happy. and i am. i just wish that i had been able to go to this school all along, because transferring sucks.