Let me begin by saying that these past five semesters working in this basement have been … cathartic. I’ve made playlists for people I’ve met in here. Watched my Tupperware rotate in...
Thank you to Faith for getting me into this organization. We stayed in the same dorm freshman year on the same floor, so it was inevitable that we would become such good friends. Through your encouragement,...
I’m going to be honest, I still don’t know what I’m doing.
When I joined the Texan as a columnist my first semester of freshman year, I’d stay up past midnight to see if my columns...
After six semesters, six comics editors, three different job descriptions and four sketchbooks, it is finally time for me to say goodbye to my beloved corner of the basement.
This corner isn’t...
Through my nine years working on five different yearbook committees, I never once imagined I would eventually defect to newspaper. In fact, the first time Jason realized I was a computer science honors...
Walking across campus with Spotify on shuffle, I pause mid-step when Jorge Drexler’s “Todo se transforma” starts to play. The song immediately brings up feelings of the love, humor and...
If someone had told me that I would be a comics editor, sitting in The Daily Texan basement batting illustration ideas back and forth between the senior staff, laughing until I had tears in my eyes and...
Earlier this semester, I found myself in the precarious position of being the only design staffer present during open house. As a young freshman interested the Texan stood beaming in front of me, I was...
I’ve never been good at introductions, highs-and-lows or being put on the spot for that matter. In these situations, the truth became my recurring joke.
With every semester, photo meetings would...
Duke Ellis, you 100% do not know who I am, but I’m sorry.
Let me take you back to February 2019. It’s my first month on the Texas baseball beat, and I am a nervous wreck. The other...
How could I possibly describe how much the Texan means to me in just 360 words?
I’ve spent all 13 semesters of college in the Texan office (still not sure if that’s a brag or not)....
The Daily Texan runs on its own calendar: A semester to the outside world is a year to our basement office. So, after 18 “Daily Texan years” over the course of seven actual years, I’m...
