University of California-Santa Barbara

Best Location for School
If you love sunny weather 95% time of the year than this school is for you. The stunning weather, beautiful people, Stellar Faculty, and state of the art makes this school on of the best schools i...

Sunny, Sunny, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara's nearly year-round amazing climate is perhaps its most famous feature. Roughly 100 miles away from smog-filled Los Angeles and right on the coast, the air is constantly clean and coo...

Santa Barbara Jobs
Just like any other place in the nation, Santa Barbara is not immune to the effects of the recession. Nevertheless, I'd been fortunate to find good off-campus, well-paying jobs throughout my four y...

The Recreation Center
First and foremost, I love the Recreation Center. It's huge, well-maintained, and offers a myriad of sports and activities. There is plenty of indoor racquetball courts and rock-climbing walls and...

Thriving Music Scene
Unbeknown by most, there is a ton of musical venues throughout Santa Barbara constantly playing small shows and bigger concerts. In Isla Vista, Biko Co-Op Garage, the Pink Mailbox, and occasional...

Anything you want
Originally from Orange County suburbia (a.k.a Hell), where everyone practically lives in their cars and are subsequently overweight and unhealthy, Santa Barbara was a life-changing breath of fresh ...

Anatomy of an Isla Vista Rager
After four years of attending UCSB, the Isla Vista party scene has surprisingly changed over time. When I was a freshman, Playboy magazine heralded us as the #2 party school in the nation. Now as a...

The Daily Nexus still reigns supreme...
The Daily Nexus continues to be the Goliath while no alternative source steps up to be David. UCSB still remains to be the only UC school with only one newspaper, and has had a long history of smal...

Top 10 Local places to eat and drink
1. SilverGreens; Isla Vista, downtown If I had the money, I would eat their seared ahi tuna salads and turkey bacon avo sandwiches all day, every day. If you want a slightly fancier Silvergreens e...

More layers than an onion...
I will be curt; UC Santa Barbara was by no means my first choice university, but it was the farthest school away from my hometown. I had no idea what I was getting into, but at the time I thought t...