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...

I threw myself into this paper. For three years, I lived and breathed The Daily Texan.  I walked into this basement as a designer. For five hours once a week, I would design the sports or life&arts...

Of all the stressful deadlines I’ve faced at the Texan, writing this column is the toughest. I don’t quite know how to summarize my time here, since my job has been to make other people’s...

Ugh, when will the walk signal change? My left sleeve was damp from the rain. Partly because the wind was picking up, and partly because my friend and I were crammed under a flimsy, dollar store umbrella. The...

For many graduating seniors, the end of college feels like dying, but, for projects reporter and former life&arts editor Morgan O’Hanlon, maybe death will just feel like graduation.  Her...

I’m here today because I couldn’t let go of my high school hero past.  As the garter snake of McCombs, my freshman year was spent shamefully unsuccessfully schmoozing with …...