Throughout my first couple of years at UT, I was constantly looking for something worthwhile to spend my time doing. Before joining the Texan, I would go to class, head back to my apartment and watch sports....
I only vaguely remember my first time running a production night. In the mad rush to deadline and the chaos of the copy log, things get slightly blurry. What I do remember is that I had no idea what a...
Kara Hawley, Senior Photographer
• December 2, 2022
One thing about me is I crave community. Growing up in a small suburb in San Antonio, Texas and attending a high school with a graduating class of 100 students, a community was never hard to find. When...
Mia Abbe, Associate opinion editor
• December 2, 2022
My sophomore year, I applied to the opinion department on a whim. I had already been rejected from The Texan twice and figured, “I have opinions, how hard is it to write my opinion.”
Very hard,...
Rachael Hatchett , Director of Diversity and Inclusion
• December 2, 2022
Monday, October 15, 1979. Hatchett is written in The Daily Texan 19 times. Wednesday, May 5, 1982 brings the first Hatchett by-line. If you told me 6 semesters ago, I would have 2 by-lines, a couple pictures,...
When I close my eyes and try to picture my life without the Texan, I just find myself staring at the back of my eyelids like someone who can’t conjure an apple in their mind. Let the record show, I can...
I first attended orientation as one of 15 people with my video on in a Zoom room of over 300. I was in my room on a chilly February evening, and I took notes. The last time I attended orientation, I was...
Connor Downs, Associate Photo Editor
• December 2, 2022
I came into UT hoping to become an engineer, and through a long complicated series of events, eventually found myself in the school of communications. But before I was even accepted into Moody there was...
The Texan steals around ten hours of my life every week and has been doing so since I was a freshman. One switch from broadsheet to tabloid later, I find myself romanticizing my final walks home from the...
I’ve worked at The Texan for three years now, and in that time I’ve heard countless staffers discuss the burnout they eventually experience working at this paper. Throughout my time here, I never really...
Kaitlyn Wilkes, Associate social media editor
• December 2, 2022
For all 143 of you who liked the “cow” tweet, you’re welcome. If you had told my freshman year self that I would be getting paid to write tweets like that I would’ve thought it was a good joke,...
I was a fresh-faced freshman that was just about to finish their first semester of college. Trump had won the 2016 presidential election and I was heartbroken and enraged. So, I drew. My first cartoon...
