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...
I am grateful to have been given another semester with the Texan. From photopits, the sidelines of sporting events and the front lines of protests, The Daily Texan has given me the ability to go places...
Editor’s note: A 30 column is a chance for departing permanent staff to say farewell and reflect on their time spent in The Daily Texan’s basement office. The term comes from the old typesetting...
Editor’s note: A 30 column is a chance for departing permanent staff to say farewell and reflect on their time spent in The Daily Texan’s basement office. The term comes from the old typesetting...
Editor’s note: A 30 column is a chance for departing permanent staff to say farewell and reflect on their time spent in The Daily Texan basement office. The term comes from the typesetting mark (—30—)...
