Derek Mead

September 22, 2016

Your Time at UCSB: A Letter From an Alumnus

By Derek Mead

Motherboard Editor in Chief and UCSB Alumnus Derek Mead shares advice on how to maximize your time at UCSB.

May 28, 2009

Doctor Derek Writes His Final Words

By Derek Mead

It's three in the morning, I'm blaquephaded off moonshine and I'm posted up in the middle of the Costa Rican rainforest. In times like this, I start to wonder how I'm going to survive the night without puking on myself o...

May 14, 2009

Break the Cycle, Not the Seal

By Derek Mead

It's a cycle as ingrained into us as peeing when we wake up. On a typical weekend afternoon, say Friday or Tuesday, you start to wonder what you're drinking that night. If you're underage, you start calling older friends...

May 12, 2009

He Said, ‘Sheed Said

By Matt Connolly, Derek Mead

Matt Connolly Looking at overall quality of work, Shaq threw it down harder than anyone in the NBA in terms of actual success. His work on the mic even crossed over to the big screen in “Kazaam” with him layi...

May 7, 2009

New Laws Can’t Stop This Party

By Derek Mead

As a wild-eyed freshman, I was blown away by my first experiences partying in Isla Vista. I’m sure that I wasn’t the only one, especially when considering the amount of barf that appeared in the Anacapa bathr...

April 29, 2009

He Said, He Said, He Said, He Said

By Derek Mead

Let's get this out of the way first, because I hate the NBA East: The Cavaliers are going to the finals. LeBron is obviously unbelievable, and with his supporting cast, Cleveland makes the rest of the conference collecti...

April 23, 2009

Floatopia Craze Threatens I.V.’s Party Culture

By Derek Mead

Wandering through the crowds at the last Floatopia, bro-bumping everyone in sight and pounding cut-rate malt liquor with a mob of friends, I was having an unfathomably good time. Suddenly coming into a clearing among the...

April 16, 2009

Derekpolitik

By Derek Mead

Let’s face it folks, the economy has been suffering for months, and all indications of the future portend much of the same. The Big Three automakers are dying at a continually hastened pace, the banks themselves ar...

April 14, 2009

SB Whips Wildcats

By Derek Mead

The UCSB women's club volleyball team won the NIRSA Division 1 National Championship with a 25-23, 25-21 drubbing of the University of Arizona Saturday night in Kansas City, Missouri. According to sen ior middle blocker ...

April 9, 2009

Women’s Club Volleyball

By Derek Mead

The women's club volleyball team beat Arizona to win the NCCS National Championship. Catch the recap tomorrow.

April 9, 2009

Men’s Tennis

By Derek Mead

Men's tennis manhandled Loyola Marymount 6-1 in its final game before conference playoffs. Catch the recap tomorrow.

April 9, 2009

Unearth Your Inner Futsukayoi

By Derek Mead

Early in the morning in Kobe, Japan, I witnessed my friend puke in an alley behind our hotel while our host yelled "Futsukayoi!" over and over. Multiple mornings over this past, particularly heinous weekend, I noticed ma...

April 8, 2009

Spring Is for Fans, the Final Four Was Not

By Derek Mead

Call it a hangover from the NCAA National Championship (as well as the weekend no doubt), but I'm feeling underwhelmed with the sporting world at the moment.

March 30, 2009

Matadors Torch Santa Barbara

By Derek Mead

It was a hell of a run, but it couldn't make it all the way. On March 13, the UCSB men's basketball team fell to Big West Champion Cal State Northridge 67-60 in the semifinal match of the conference tournament. The loss...

March 9, 2009

Gauchos Bury Long Beach

By Derek Mead

Saturday night the Gauchos (8-8 Big West, 15-14 overall) toppled Long Beach State (10-6, 15-14) 76-75, overcoming a six-point deficit in the final four minutes.

March 9, 2009

IM Basketball Edition

By Matt Connolly, Derek Mead

Move over '72 Miami Dolphins, The Rimjobs are the new measure of perfection. After blowing their way through Sunday night's excuse for a B-League, The Rimmies are ready to physically and orally decimate any opponent come...