Writing this piece means the end of a journey that I started my first semester at UT. Seventeen-year-old me would never imagine leaving the Texan after just two years, but she would also not understand...
Kirti Moteka, Senior Issue Designer
• April 25, 2024
As lame as it sounds, I would spend hours on weekend nights designing layouts in high school. While my friends went to parties or movies or late-night ice cream runs, I’d retire to my parents’ recliner,...
Even though it may be hard to see it at the time, rejection can be a really good thing.
Before coming to UT, I already knew I wanted to join The Daily Texan. I was majoring in journalism. It seemed...
I stumbled my way up The Daily Texan’s ladder. I wiggled my way into LARTS and Copy the summer after my sophomore year at the encouragement of a friend. Coming from a high school with no newspaper, I...
In light of the extreme militarization that took place on our campus Wednesday, I find it is inappropriate to continue business as usual and publish a 30, or a goodbye column, without discussing what our...
At orientation, our newspaper advisor Peter tells us we'll leave the Texan with lifelong friends.
He’s right. It’s the people who kept me at the Texan so long. Being editor-in-chief this year...
The final buzzer sounded and I started typing. I sat there at the Moda Center, courtside, in complete shock as the team I had covered all season was sent packing in the Elite 8. Tears started to swell...
What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a question that asks us to define ourselves from kindergarten to, well, forever. I would like to say that I struggled with this question, that it was something...
I wrote this in October. And no it wasn’t because I felt ready to leave the Texan last month … okay maybe I did a little. But it was mostly because I was feeling sentimental.
I was reflecting...
The school newspaper has been my home since my sophomore year of high school. I stumbled into journalism and it changed my life. I found my voice and my identity in the newsroom, I also found my life long...
Kate Whyte, Double Coverage Copy Editor
• November 30, 2023
Copy editors are trained to pay attention to the details. We spend hours going down research rabbit holes to perfect the things that most people would overlook (until they’re wrong, of course). But I...
I came to the University of Texas with intentions of working in the medical field. A hastily-done application changed that.
The spring of my freshman year, I decided to apply for the Daily Texan sports...
