It was a few weeks into my freshman year when a couple girls from my J 304 class took on the stage at the auditorium to announce them and some others were about to have their first Daily Texan stories...

When Leila Saidane — my first and most influential photo editor — asked me to define photojournalism, I recited something I learned only that week, one of many insights I would take from Professor...

While at The Daily Texan, my illustrations spoke for me. I worked with journalists across our writing departments to express their stories visually. For my final piece published in our paper, I'll be speaking...

For the last seven years, my mother has received a phone call nearly every Monday and Thursday night, anywhere from 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. It always starts the same way. “I’m walking back from...

At 16, I stepped into The Daily Texan Basement for the first time. I attended a journalism conference at UT with my high school newspaper and instantly became captivated by a panel of Texan staffers sharing...

I’ve always been a planner — the number one fan of to-do lists, Google Calendars and color-coded reminders. Since high school, I was certain: I needed to be a journalist — specifically, a print...

When I came to UT in the fall of 2023, I was an environmental science major and an anxious mess, desperate to join as many organizations as possible as quickly as possible. I always considered photography...

First off, I’ll start by saying — it’s really weird to see my name on a Texan byline. And secondly, it’s bittersweet to think that this might be the end of my newspaper career (though I refuse...

This Thanksgiving, my grandma sent me into an early life crisis without even knowing it. “I would have never guessed you would go into sports,” she said to me. I sat there and thought to myself, how...

Some may not know this, but as a member of the media there is no cheering in the press box. It’s meant to be an unbiased atmosphere and can be kicked out for doing so.   Now, some may not know this,...

When I decided to attend the University of Texas, I had one aspiration in mind: to be the Sports Editor of The Daily Texan.  I worked in the same position in high school and was just cocky enough to...

This column, my last written work for The Daily Texan, started the same as all of my articles: with a frustrating series of typing and deleting, taunted by a flashing cursor.  Does writer’s block...