As a graduating senior and Daily Texan associate editor, I’m given the unenviable task of composing a farewell column in which I’m expected to simultaneously reflect on my time at UT —...

At the corner of Guadalupe and 31st streets, there is a crosswalk that is probably the only aspect of Austin I hate more than the people who hang out at Spider House. The “crosswalk”...

Helen, I feel like over the past four years, I’ve written opinion columns ranging on just about every topic, but I’ve never had the opportunity to express my opinion of you. In general,...

A sportswriter’s job is to make something more interesting than it actually is. With my passion for sports, this has never been a challenge — I was the kid watching ESPN instead of Nickelodeon. When...

I never wanted to work here. Maybe it had something to do with the whispers I would hear being passed between students. “It’s just a biased group of students padding their resumes,”...

It’s strange, but after a year working in the basement of The Daily Texan — cranking out stories on budget cuts, staff layoffs and technology commercialization — I don’t really...

After two years at The Daily Texan — two years of sitting in the basement until 2 a.m. and driving myself insane over all the mistakes we still made in the next day’s paper — I’ve...

And after eight semesters, I realize today it’s my last working for the Texan. So, for the final time tonight, I trudge up those stony-grey weathered steps toward the night — you know,...

It was only natural that Thu and I would become friends. She loves to cook and bake, and I love to eat. She often arrived for a night of page designing with a fresh batch of peanut butter blondies....

The Daily Texan/Texas Student Media is a much smaller place now than when I first arrived in 2006. Newspapers that were usually 16 or 20 pages are now only 12 or 14 pages. Instead of two sections, there’s...