Opinion
When your life here feels worlds away from life back home, issues of identity inevitably come into play as the struggle to balance the two becomes increasingly necessary to sustain sanity. But though ...
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It's June. This year - my senior year of college - is nearly done, yet I keep thinking about books I read in grade school. You know the kind.
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"I faced the facts: I am a 21-year-old male - the worst demographic to rent to, bar none. We are dirty, we get drunk and break stuff, we don't even own vacuums and the only time our apartments are cle...
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Bye, Nexites. We did it every night, and we did it good. Funny, fearless geniuses who can handle their liquor - I'd be lucky to work with a group like you again.
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Shiny, greased-up suntans to the newly established Pita Pit for providing a yummy late-night alternative to Freebirds.
Itchy, scratchy sunburns to the I.V. parking plan proposal for charging us up the...
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Everyone in the political world loves the Family. They may not like their own families, as the second or even third marriages of our upstanding leaders tell us, but they love Families.
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It began for me with the fire marshal commanding me to take down political paraphernalia off my door in the on-campus dorms because it was unpopular during the election season and "it would possibly c...
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I was terrified of my bathroom when I was five. My neighbor told me that there were spies from the government who were listening in there. As I grew older, I realized that he was another one of the ma...
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The following is a response to Maria Harutyunyan's Wednesday column ("Rapists Should Own Up to Their Crimes," Daily Nexus, May 26). First, I agree, as I hope we all do, with Maria's contempt for those...
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Being cynical but not burned out, one is put in an uneven spot. On one hand, you remain relatively open minded to most things and people, and this mind state fills life with a certain verve.
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Two days left, and I'm getting all emotional. The guy from I.V. Bakery called in response to yesterday's box, offering 10 cents for every time I visited the store.
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It's been a nice hiatus. Unfortunately, since I've taken a long break from nothing, all things I.V. and UCSB went to hell. Some jackass in the administration must've finally realized the foolishness o...
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This article is a response to Neil Visalvanich's "Students Shouldn't Fund a Campaign Shrouded in Mystery" (Daily Nexus, May 25). One of Mr. Visalvanich's main points is that UCSB students do not know ...
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Last week, I was supposed to write a poem for my English class. It's fun writing poems because nobody understands them. You could write "A blue cup, washing in the wind" and accept praise for it.
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All good things must come to an end. "Seinfeld," the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the reign of the Roman Empire and in turn, my love affair with the Daily Nexus.
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
