Earning high grades, working at internships, and doing extracurriculars can be an exercise in unhappiness. Rigorous science, though, can give us skills to lead a more satisfying life. The science of positive...
UT is a top-tier university, and hypercompetitive students will do whatever it takes to get ahead. By investigating the use of test banks, popular study tools among exclusive student organizations,...
“Another unattended gun was found,” reads the beginning of the second UT safety alert released last Wednesday. In light of recent events, it’s especially concerning to hear that guns...
Housing for Longhorns is a hot topic these days. Bottom line: It sucks to be a renter, and one big reason is that the University is critically short on dorm rooms and apartments.
UT is largely out of...
Texas is one of 15 states that hold open primaries, which allow voters to cast their ballots in whichever party’s nominating contest they choose — regardless of previous affiliation. Even if...
When you look at the ballot for the primary elections this month, it is very unlikely you’ve personally had class with any of the nominees. Voting in elections where all the candidates are just names...
As midterm exam season approaches, students should realize that many of our study habits may not be really helping at all. The best way to genuinely understand something is actually to forget it first.
According...
Student athletes are constantly subjected to criticism on whether or not they deserve the scholarship money they receive. This frustration, while understandable if you are a debt-laden student struggling...
Like other positions in the Student Government Assembly, University-wide representatives are charged with writing and voting on legislation, advocating for pertinent and effective changes on the student...
Busing students to polling precincts engages new voters, exposes them to the issues and institutionalizes voting. School districts that elect to bus students to the polls should be allowed to. Students...
Political campaigns have a long history of playing with voters’ emotions. In 1800 this was calling the opponent a hermaphrodite, now it’s graphic violence. This tactic is getting worse...
Amy Wax, an accomplished University of Pennsylvania law professor, quickly found out that her op-ed “Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture” would incite harsh...
