Self Study

A deep dive into identity

July 8, 2026

You should be ashamed of yourself: the joy of embarrassment

By Emma Bogna

Emma Bogna cannot wait to make a fool of herself this weekend.

May 14, 2026

Celebrated, but still unseen

By Claire Kim

Claire Kim learned to love herself before she could laugh at herself.

April 23, 2026

I walk through Isla Vista

By Lucy Dixon

Lucy Dixon loves these roads where the houses don’t change.

February 12, 2026

Breaking up is hard to do … especially on Valentine’s Day

By Stella Mullin

Stella Mullin used to believe Tom was right in “500 Days of Summer.” Now she agrees with Summer.

September 14, 2025

Waves of nostalgia

By Kira Logan

Kira Logan can be found at a bench at Anacapa Residence Hall, overlooking the ocean, listening to Arctic Monkeys and being nostalgic.

July 20, 2025

Who are we without the fear of being perceived?

By Kira Logan

Kira Logan wonders who we are — and if that version of us changes in front of others.

May 15, 2025

The “Gilmore Girls” paradox

By Kira Logan

Kira Logan shamelessly shows off her binge-watching T.V. skills — and her love for her mom.

May 8, 2025

Heartbreak and nature: it works

By Nestor Manzanares

Nestor Manzanares found healing somewhere that heartbreak couldn't reach him: the ocean.

April 17, 2025

What the f*** is a situationship?

By Kira Logan

Kira Logan contemplates the question we're all asking.

February 27, 2025

An Ode to the Out-of-State Struggle

By Opinion Editor

When I flew back to school from my home in Colorado to start my sophomore year, my sister began to cry in the plane seat next to me. As we gazed over the Pacific, preparing to land in sunny Santa Barbara, she looked at m...

January 30, 2025

Grief makes me a time traveler

By Kira Logan

I am 9 years old. I am sitting on my grandfather’s magenta-turned-lavender rocking chair with him, and we are watching Sunday Night Football. My mind jumps to a 14-year-old version of myself, inconsolable in the John...

January 28, 2025

The rearview mirror: Things I’d say to my former self

By Emily Yoon

I often think about my high-school self: avid lover of Holly Warburton paintings and musical theater, writer of prose and poetry and a girl with a rebellious streak convinced, in true teenager fashion, that nobody unders...

October 24, 2024