Josh Willis has worked as a general reporter, a senior reporter on the System and Administration beat, and a news desk editor. He will miss causing trouble around the office.
I wanted to join the Texan as soon as I committed to UT. The decision: Which section? I felt unqualified to offer opinions when I barely knew my way around campus. News reporting was tempting, but I heard...
The Texan is all I’ve ever known.
Sure, I worked at that restaurant and took a few classes, but those were just temporary phases in my college career at the Texan — like that time I pierced...
I have no idea what I'm doing.
I used to think I did. I had a plan: I was going to be a journalist, starting as a news reporter for The Daily Texan. Suffice it to say, this is the first and only...
Few people know how much the Texan saved me.
Before I became a daily fixture by the basement door, I didn’t really belong anywhere. I was a journalism sophomore who had never written a journalistic...
Bryce Seifert, former Daily Texan video editor, was found completely exhausted on the floor of the Daily Texan office Friday. He was 20 years old.
Seifert served as a videographer at the paper for two...
I used to allow fear to control me. I imagined myself growing into a dogged reporter, but in reality, I was terrified.
In August 2013, I sheepishly went to a Daily Texan info session with all intents...
Despite everything horror movies have taught me about going into dark, scary basements, I’m incredibly lucky I plucked up the courage to visit The Daily Texan’s office.
Nearly two and a...
I laid in bed Tuesday at 3 a.m., tossing and turning and thinking.
I had to write this missive and turn it in 17 hours. But I didn’t know who to thank, to praise, to compliment. I didn’t...
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...
I started college as a neuroscience student who’s never been good at science. I’m still not good at science, and after a few weeks of learning about axons and neurons, I switched to journalism...
I think for the first time in my short editing career I don’t know where to start. Usually stories come to me already written, and I don’t have to take on the difficult task of actually writing...
