Many students strive for perfection. There is immense pressure from peers, families, and society to work as hard as you can. People romanticize sacrificing their mental and physical health for the sake...
My first winter break of college, I was home catching up with one of my best friends from high school. She’d just gotten her final grades back and was relieved that she’d barely eked out a...
Ah, the new semester. People aren’t stressed out of their minds yet, classes are still fresh and interesting and there’s a sense of excitement around campus.
Let’s fix that....
What do Texans love more than Texas? Trick question — the answer is absolutely nothing.
To be fair, Texans have a lot to be proud of. Stars at night, wailing coyotes and prairie skies are...
No one should have to sit out a sit-in.
Protests and other methods of activism are great ways for people to come together and get involved in the political environment around them. The problem...
As you look outside at the cold, gray day, it makes you appreciate what you have now: a nice fire, a good book and a hot cup of tea. Then you wake up and realize that it’s your life that’s...
Sports clubs are great, right? You know what else would be great? If UT RecSports devoted more of its resources to improving its website.
Sports clubs are a large part of campus life for many students....
Roses are red, OU still sucks, I hope you like campus because it looks like you’re stuck.
Putting our rivalry with OU aside, students really do get stuck on campus. Austin is a great city...
Everyone has something that they’re implacably opposed to — President Donald Trump and progressive taxation, Bernie Sanders and student debt, the Vegas Golden Knights and beating the San Jose...
My aunt likes to complain that people these days don’t write letters anymore, but the joke’s on her because there are 119 letters in just this sentence.
Puns aside, my aunt isn’t wrong....
One of my fondest memories of freshman year was when I, alongside 20 of my history major peers, stood in a circle in Garrison Hall singing Kumbaya.
Okay, so maybe that didn’t happen. But...
At the beginning of my freshman year, I dealt with all sorts of “beginning of freshman year” worries. I was nervous about classes and meeting new people. One thing I wasn’t nervous about...
One thousand and ninety four. That’s the number of student organizations currently active on campus, and each one is an individual labor of love for their members. They bring people together around...
History is a science in many respects. Historians form hypotheses and draw conclusions. They seek to describe and document the world around them. Perhaps the largest similarity between history and science,...
The scent of bluebonnets is one of my favorites. I always loved seeing them bloom in my front yard, and the image of them along I-35 is iconic to Texas.
It seems odd, then, that I see so few around...
