It wasn’t until a couple years into reporting that I realized this was a thing I could really stick with.
That’s a little late, considering all the money and time I had spent on school and pumping...
Someone once told me maybe I liked journalism so much because I wanted to write, but I wasn’t ready to write about myself.
That’s probably true. I’ve written hundreds of stories in my four...
I walked into The Daily Iowan newsroom before I even stepped foot in a classroom at the University of Iowa. Little did I know, I would spend more hours than I could count in that room over the next...
When I stepped into The Daily Iowan newsroom for the first time, I never could have imagined what unbelievably crazy and unexpected experiences I would have that would shape me into the journalist,...
When I came to the University of Iowa as a freshman, I didn’t know anyone else on campus. My mom helped me settle into the dorms before she embarked on the 16-hour drive back to Houston, Texas, and...
I’m not great at letting go.
I’m a fairly anxious person in general, so worrying constantly about everything all the time is my forte. But with DITV, it is even worse. When I stepped into this...
There’s this old saying that goes, “Life happens just outside your comfort zone.” When I was younger, I never really believed it. Being out of my comfort zone made me anxious, and anxiety makes...
Two years ago, suffering from boredom during quarantine, I decided to explore what The Daily Iowan had to offer. I remember seeing “we are always hiring” on the website and tentatively filling...
Once again, I am writing a goodbye letter and I am at a loss for words. I can talk your ear off for two hours about the latest Magic: the Gathering set, or about how my plants are doing, but when I...
With pandemic restrictions being more lenient now than before, it’s easy to forget that COVID-19 is still a problem for some people—a really expensive problem. In Iowa, the average cost for hospitalization...
Students at the University of Iowa are given two opportunities each year to provide feedback to their professors.
Assessing the Classroom Environment, or ACE, are end of the semester evaluations...
In the midst of World War I, the British were looking to do what they do best: destroy a civilization.
Of course, that was not their only stated objective in the Middle East theater of World War...
