This semester working in the Daily Texan office on Thursday nights has been — everything.
When I found out the job would require spending every Thursday in the basement from 4 p.m. to midnight,...
After semesters of putting it off and telling myself I wouldn’t make it, I finally tried out for the Texan last fall. One published tryout photo and interview with Lawrence later, I waited for a...
I used to hate that my mom never taught me how to speak Spanish.
She’s fluent, as is most of her side of the family. But my dad isn’t, so it was more convenient for her to talk to both of...
For those who have come into the Daily Texan basement when the sun was still out and left long after the night had come, I salute you.
As I move forward, I don’t feel as if I am losing anything....
I stumbled upon The Daily Texan when I was on a scavenger hunt with my First-Year Interest Group in fall 2011.Then the basement I’ve come to call home was just another stop on our checklist of hidden...
The Daily Texan is a special place filled with heaps of special people. The people make this organization what it is, and the fact that I got to be one of them is an experience I know I won’t ever...
I didn’t deserve to work at the Texan.
As a junior with no credentials, Aleksander Chan — the managing editor in the fall of 2012 — bought me a great sandwich, offered me a...
In scary movies, basements are usually places where people end up dying. But the cold and often sunless basement of The Daily Texan has always been a place of life and laughter — albeit with frequent...
The first time I set foot in The Daily Texan basement, I was afraid. It’s only fitting that I will leave it feeling the same way.
It was Aleks’ and Katie’s effortless superiority —...
It’s a weird thing that goes on in this basement. Five nights a week. Under harsh florescent lighting. With a vocabulary of words like “pagint,” “RIM” and “maestro”....
Prepare for a(nother) cliche-ridden piece about a long-time staffer who is finally leaving The Daily Texan.
The Basement has become my home away from home, filled with a family I would never dream...
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...
