De Anza students left feeling uneasy after the increase in both students on campus and in residential areas

San Francisco Bay Area, Image belongs to Maryam Golkar

With an education plan that needs to be completed in as little time as possible, a De Anza College
 student feels the pressure of choosing her classes on her registration date.

Alissa Stauffer, 20, a communications major, said she is eager to transfer to San Francisco State 
University. She will most likely be forced to hold off transfering due to not being able to get into all
 of her necessary classes because they have already been filled she said on Thursday May 31.

Stauffer is among the many college students who feel the pressures of overcrowding in the Bay Area,
 according to a study published by New Geography.

According to the study there has been a 17 percent drop in enrollment for community college students.

Stauffer said she skips school and stays home on her registration dates so that she can “be ready to 
click submit” at the computer right when it is her turn to pick classes.

Enisa Bracic, 20, a computer science major, said she also felt the pressure.

Aside from finding it hard to get into classes, Bracic said she is worried that she will not be able to get 
a job in the future because there is so much competition.

“It’s almost impossible to keep up. Everyone wants to make it, but there’s just too many people,” she
 said. She spends most of her time studying at home because she feels that it is the only place she can
 get away from everyone.

Conducted after noticing the massive increase in people residing in California in recent years,

News Geography writer, Wendell Cox, wrote on the study done by Census Bureau Supplemental
 Poverty Estimates.

“California generally leads in both overcrowding and severe overcrowding,” Cox said.

Dani Yuen, 19, a business major, said she enjoys going to De Anza but doesn’t like how many people 
there are.

“There are too many distractions,” she said. But, she still lives with her family, so she has to put up wit
h this for now until she is able to move away on her own, she said.

Nick Brown, 23, a marketing major, said he likes living in a busy town, but not when it starts to affect 
his education.

Not only does he go to school, but he is also living and paying for rent with a roommate. He said this
 creates an added pressure but he “does not have a choice.”

Although he likes living in the Bay Area, he sometimes regrets his decision to stay here, Brown said.

The same study also showed that San Francisco and San Jose rank in the top five most severely 
crowded metropolitan areas.

Tiphanie Clemente, 21, a business major, said she was born and raised in the Bay Area and feels
 privileged to live here.

If she did not grow up here, she probably wouldn’t be able to move here now, with the current increase
 and competition of people who want to live here in recent years, Clemente said.

But Austin Bryan, 20, a biology major, said he looks at the crowding at De Anza in a different light.

He finds it “motivating and driving” to push through the distractions and do well in school in order to 
score a good job once he graduates.

Overcrowding in the Bay Area is causing a unique type of stress to its residents that many people living
 elsewhere do not face, according to the study.

Stauffer said she hopes to continue doing well in school despite the setbacks.

“I just have to remember my end goal,” she said. “When I do that, it makes it easier to re encourage
 myself.”