When I first tried out for The Daily Texan my freshman year in Spring 2013, I did not think I would get the position, as the only photos I took during the tryout process were at Graffiti Park of just the...
I don’t really think anyone understands how intimidated and embarrassed I felt walking into The Daily Texan basement for the first time. Seeing everyone joyously talking to people around them with...
Four years ago, I stepped on to the 40 Acres without a clue in the world. I was 2,000 miles away from my home in Portland, Oregon and I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. In fact, I thought...
My advice to the students at The University of Texas at Austin: Do not work for The Daily Texan. You will be required to confine yourself to the basement of the communications complex for long periods...
I walked down the musky, water-logged steps that lead to The Daily Texan basement for the last time as the sports editor of our storied publication last night.
Wait, maybe I didn’t. But...
I don’t think I knew what focal length or aperture were for the first 75 percent of my time on photo staff. I managed to keep my ignorance low-key enough to get the occasional adequate photo printed...
I was once like you. I was once a nerd.
However, if you sign up for my eight-week program, you will learn a writing system that I developed over three semesters writing for The Daily Texan. Need...
Working at The Daily Texan led to a lot of firsts for me. It was the first time I’d ever written for a newspaper. I applied on a whim in the middle of the summer before my senior year because I wasn’t...
I was never supposed to work here.
In high school, my parents sat me down and told me that I’d be poor and unhappy if I went into journalism.
I threw some garbage at them about being “interdisciplinary”...
The first step of the scientific process is to observe one’s surroundings and ask questions. Last spring I went undercover as a journalist, escaping my life as an engineering nerd to do what journalists...
Near the end of “Fast Five,” Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto gathers his team before embarking on one last job. He proposes a toast.
“Money will come and go, we know that,”...
On a cold Wednesday afternoon in January, Alan and Eve Hyatt visited the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. They were from Boca Raton, Florida. The retired couple traveled to the library in their...
