I’m transferring to CalPoly this semester as a senior. My schedule and classes are already 100% sorted out with my advisor. I also already completely finished the mandatory "Transfer & Returning Student Registration Tutorial" course on Canvas, including the online Title IX module and the registration survey. And I uploaded my pic for student ID.

The in-person orientation schedule looks like a lot of general "welcome to college" fluff and things like trail safety, and chalk art? Feels like a tedious waste of time for someone familiar with college in general and completed the online training modules.

The website says the in-person orientation day is "mandatory," but is it really? Will an administrative hold be placed on me if I skip the quad check-in and theater sessions entirely, or does completing the Canvas tutorial cover my bases?

Or ....am I being a misanthropic grump? Is the 8:00 a.m. sidewalk chalk art activity. free coffee and random lectures on trail safely possibly going to change my life and heal my soul if I show up?

Would love to hear from past transfers on whether you showed up and stayed for everything, showed up got your packet and bounced, or ghosted orientation and just picked up student ID etc at the library later.

Thanks!

For reference the schedule : Morning Block (General Introductions & Safety)

• 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (University Quad): Check-in, light breakfast, coffee, and sidewalk chalking.
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM (JVD Theater): Orientation welcome by the President and Student President.
• 9:15 AM – 9:40 AM (JVD Theater): Dean of Students welcome regarding student well-being.
• 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM (JVD Theater): Title IX and Campus Advocate Team resource overview.
• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM (JVD Theater): CHECK IT student-led session on consent culture.
• 10:15 AM – 10:40 AM (JVD Theater): Wellness resources, counseling, and health center logistics.
• 10:40 AM – 11:05 AM (JVD Theater): Institutional data presentation and the first Humboldt Survey.
• 11:05 AM – 11:15 AM: Morning break.

🎓 Mid-Day Block (Academics & Resources)

• 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM (Various Rooms): Academic College Q&A Panels.
  • Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences: Founders Hall 118
  • Professional Studies: SCI B 133
  • Natural Resources & Sciences: Music B 132
• 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (The J Cafeteria): Free lunch and social time with ambassadors.
• 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM (JVD Theater): Outdoor safety tips for local trails and coastlines.
• 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM (JVD Theater): Campus Resource Panel with staff and campus leaders.
• 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM (JVD Theater/Quad): Lumberjack Commitment campus values introduction.
• 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Afternoon break.

🚲 Late Afternoon & Evening (Optional Sessions)

• 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM (Major Room Locations): Major exploration meetings with Department Chairs.
• 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM (Harry Griffith Hall Bike Station): All-abilities group bike ride to Arcata Marsh.
• 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (JGC Rec Room & Cypress Lawn): Boba & Bingo (On-campus residents only).
• 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Forbes Gym): Casual drop-in basketball games.

SCULPTURE ll - Tips? tricks? Syllabus spoilers ? Best parts? And struggles? Is there storage cubbies for student supplies? What medium? Wood? Welding ? Fiber? Directed projects ? or Self determined?

Any and all advice, warnings, or feedback on your experience welcome TIA. ❤️

SCULPTURE ll - Tips? tricks? Syllabus spoilers ? Best parts? And struggles? Is there storage cubbies for student supplies? What medium? Wood? Welding ? Fiber? Directed projects ? or Self determined?

Any and all advice, warnings, or feedback on your experience welcome TIA. ❤️

I've been on rover about a year and I want to know how people deal with dog walks.

Only about 25% of the dogs I walk are decently trained polite and fun.

SO many of the dogs are reactive and tug and act a fool! One literally growled during the meet and greet. ahahahah (declined so fast)

I also have had more than one experience where unleashed dogs come and interact with or attack us!

It hardly seems worth the $ to risk getting bit, losing their dog or ending up in the middle of a dog fight.

Does anyone carry pepper spray or similar to dissuade the stray dogs?

And do you screen out the jerk dogs or just play along?

It's stressful and especially with large dogs seems highly dangerous.

I am a life-long dog owner and trainer. I've trained troublesome dogs and taught my animals jobs.

Luckily I primarily do cat visits just wondering if this is a common experience.

Do you know how Land Back works in California? Local tribes can receive direct donations but they can also purchase property at fair market value. They use state funding like the Tribal Nature-Based Solutions program, or federal tribal lending paths to buy strategic acreage, especially parcels with headwaters and old-growth oak or tanoak woodlands.

I’m curious what people's thoughts are about this process, specifically tribal members. If a tribe reacquires land through a buyout, is there even an appreciable impact on your community? Are people actually going out to gather acorns, harvest soaproot and rushes, collect spring water, or manage the land with cultural burning? Or do bureaucratic obstacles prevent people from actually accessing and using the land once it's acquired?

On the flip side, maybe the biggest obstacle is just finding willing private landowners. Has anyone here actually returned their private rural land to the original Indigenous people?

I'm looking for opinions, information, and especially first-person accounts of parcels returned to tribal hands in Humboldt County.

John Chiv’s posture has perverted itself from "defensive access journalist" into pure, unadulterated psychological projection. 🫠

While trying to maintain his “I am the only objective legal scholar ” lane, the framing of his sturdy little blog is completely collapsing around him.

As a multi-agency major crimes task force - including the FBI- unearth 117 dogs with chips and bullet wounds, 21 skulls, multiple piles of bones and animals in advanced decomposition - in addition to the 8 dogs removed in April -and used as evidence in the original warrant on Miranda's Rescue property- Chiv would rather spend vast amounts of his emotional bandwidth and blog column inches aggressively hyper-focusing on:

1. The Whistleblower’s Windows: He launched a multi-day blog campaign demanding to see code enforcement permits for Miranda's neighbor Jennifer Raymond's residential windows.

2. Mark Zuckerberg’s Software: Chiv spun a fantastically dark web conspiracy theory today about "shadowy anon trolls" because evidently he doesn't understand that Facebook groups can generate random animal avatars for users (like MotivatedSalamander9969) for privacy. 😹

3. The Nepotism Conspiracy: Chiv recently accused Sheriff Honsal of running a corrupted, biased felony animal-abuse investigation to satisfy a family vendetta, and he LITERALLY demanded the Attorney General step in to investigate the Sheriff’s wife. 🤯

All the while he doesn't write a single word about the dogs confiscated as evidence, the 600 collars found in what appeared to be a killing zone, the 731 unaccounted-for animals or the fraud and conspiracy being investigated by the prosecution team.

4. "Judge not lest ye be judged" he did a big pivot to virtuous warning energy 😂 A lecture for his readers morality, is rich, coming from the guy frantically pecking out name-calling insults at all the "miserable online trolls."

5. Pay-To-Play: Digital Ransom Note for Moving Expenses. June 19, Chiv offered a financial buyout to get him to exit Humboldt. Informing his readers:

>"Want me to leave? I have a one time deal for you... agree to come up with the money and meet all my conditions and I will leave... I want some additional funds like moving expenses, legal costs, and other damages incurred in this corrupt, podunk county."

He is actually trying to Crowd-fund his own eviction notice by telling the community that his absence has a price tag. 🙃

6. Locked Out: Has the Humboldt Sheriff Finally Froze Out John Chiv?

The biggest tell that his "insider access" has been obliterated is his recent, bitter confession: (which i have taken the liberty of running through an editor program so we can understand wtf he was trying to say:)

>The Raw "Chiv" Draft

>"...because I doub the other media will ask Sheriff William Honsal tomorrow at the press conference tomorrow is once this Miranda's rescue investigation is going to be complete... I would ask those questions tomorrow but Sheriff Honsal tomorrow is not communicating with me these days."

The "AI Writing Pal" Polish

>"I doubt the mainstream media will ask Sheriff William Honsal the necessary questions at tomorrow's press conference regarding the long-term timeline of the Miranda’s Rescue investigation. I would ask these questions myself, but the Sheriff's Office is currently freezing me out of official communications."

Is chiv officially frozen out and blacklisted by local law enforcement?

Has his aggressive defense of Shannon Miranda and antagonistic legal threats against the Sheriff's Office stripped him of his coveted media credentials?

Is he forced to sit on the sidewalk, locked out of the press briefing room, while the mainstream media that he despises gets the raw updates from the actual prosecution team? Inquiring minds want to know.

ONCORE

7. Chiv's Meltdown: "Shitfaced Coward" & Tech Delusions It sadly, gets worse. Tonight Chiv completely lost his temper resorting to aggressive name-calling. He typed:

>"You are a shitfaced coward who is biased in your opinion... I hope you lose your job, your home, your reputation and that Sheriff Honsal investigates you next and that the same sewer online rats you hang out with turn on you... You are a miserable snake with no accomplishments."

For a man who spent the earlier part of the evening quoting Jesus and the Bible to shame his critics, to actively wish homelessness and ruin on a local courthouse employee on a Sunday night - just because they call out his perverted coverage of the investigation of Shannon Miranda - is un-Christian, and un-hinged.

Chiv has hitched his entire journalistic reputation to the absolute wrong pony, and now that the case has hit CNN, he is left screaming into his disabled comment section while the rest of the county, and the COUNTRY. move on to the actual criminal justice phase.

Will he ever decide to join that conversation?

Completely random thought:

After reading about dogs reported as adopted, my brain started staring at the word itself.

A D O P T E D

Rearrange the letters and you get:

DEAD OPT

Not a real phrase, but in the context of this story it feels strangely fitting.

"Dead option."

"Opted out."

"No way out."

Miranda's "*Rescue"'*may go down as one of the cruelest misnomers in Humboldt County history, where instead of rescued, adopted meant Dead Opt.

Stuff of nightmares for those poor animals, and for this community.