Sabrina Hodjati

March 8, 2016

The Bureaucratic Nightmare of Studying Abroad

By Sabrina Hodjati

Sabrina Hodjati describes her less than pleasant experience of getting prepared to study abroad.

January 7, 2016

Studying up on Studying Abroad: The Impact of Cultural Differences

By Sabrina Hodjati

Sabrina Hodjati discusses her personal experience with deciding to study abroad, and the cultural factors that impact her options.

December 18, 2015

What is in a Major: One Student’s Journey

By Sabrina Hodjati

Sabrina Hodjati shares her firsthand experience of finding and becoming happy with her major.

October 14, 2015

Send Silence Packing: A Conversation Overheard

By Sabrina Hodjati

Sabrina Hodjati shares a conversation she heard at the Send Silence Packing demonstration this week, and talks priorities and values for college students.

October 9, 2015

The Role of College: How Important is the Ivory Tower?

By Sabrina Hodjati

As the cost and expectations of higher education shift, Sabrina Hodjati asks what role UCSB should play in the changing college landscape.

May 18, 2015

Don’t Fear the RBF

By Sabrina Hodjati

Sabrina Hodjati discusses the gendered double-standard implicit in the term "Resting Bitch Face"

May 13, 2015

Is Social Media Contributing to the Stigma Around Depression and Anxiety?

By Sabrina Hodjati

Sabrina Hodjati explains why social media may not tell the whole story, and talks about how it can affect us emotionally.

March 30, 2015

Navigating the Multicultural Campus

By Sabrina Hodjati

Sabrina Hodjati discusses the enriching possibilities in entering an unfamiliar social milieu, and some of the difficulties in keeping these experiences positive

March 4, 2015

UCSB Inferiority

By Sabrina Hodjati

To me, UCSB always presented an odd dichotomy. For years I completely disregarded and undermined the school, regarding it as a “bad UC,” a “backup school” and the party school that the Princeton Review so fervent...

February 18, 2015

The Angry Yak

By Sabrina Hodjati

Sabrina Hodjati explores the dark side of Yik Yak: the anonymous racism, misogyny, homophobia and more that we all try to pretend no longer exists.

February 4, 2015

Fashionable and Freezing

By Sabrina Hodjati

Despite the disgustingly fantastic weather forecast for this week, we are undoubtedly in the mystical and evanescent season of “winter.” While the temperature during the day has been in the low to mid 70s (just warm ...

January 14, 2015