As I reflect on my previous three years at The Daily Texan, I feel so nostalgic from the day I opened my email at the PCL during my first semester at UT to the headline, “Congratulations, you have been...
Chloe Moore, Director of Digital Strategy
• April 26, 2024
After two years in the Texan’s social media department, I’ve gotten good at summarizing things into a 280-character post.
Despite this, I can’t figure out how to write this column and finally...
My mom has always talked to me like I’m destined for greatness.
That might seem dramatic, but she is truly my biggest supporter. She always has compliments and affirmations at the ready.
“You’re...
I will be utterly honest and begin by saying that I have absolutely no idea how to start this column. My job at the Texan has always relied on condensing the work of brilliant and talented staffers. Thus,...
Mihir Gokhale, Associate Opinion Editor
• April 26, 2024
Even before committing to UT, I knew I wanted to join a college newspaper. While I’d never been involved in journalism before, my passion for writing almost immediately led me to The Daily Texan. After...
Writing this piece means the end of a journey that I started my first semester at UT. seventeen-year-old me would never imagine leaving the Texan after just two years, but she would also not understand...
Kirti Moteka, Senior Issue Designer
• April 26, 2024
As lame as it sounds, I would spend hours on weekend nights designing layouts in high school. While my friends went to parties or movies or late-night ice cream runs, I’d retire to my parents’ recliner,...
Even though it may be hard to see it at the time, rejection can be a really good thing.
Before coming to UT, I already knew I wanted to join The Daily Texan. I was majoring in journalism. It seemed...
I stumbled my way up The Daily Texan’s ladder. I wiggled my way into LARTS and Copy the summer after my sophomore year at the encouragement of a friend. Coming from a high school with no newspaper, I...
In light of the extreme militarization that took place on our campus Wednesday, I find it is inappropriate to continue business as usual and publish a 30, or a goodbye column, without discussing what our...
At orientation, our newspaper advisor Peter tells us we'll leave the Texan with lifelong friends.
He’s right. It’s the people who kept me at the Texan so long. Being editor-in-chief this year...
The final buzzer sounded and I started typing. I sat there at the Moda Center, courtside, in complete shock as the team I had covered all season was sent packing in the Elite 8. Tears started to swell...
