For the summer, I have opted to continue my blog as a series of posts geared towards freshmen, but also for students who might relate or might just be looking for a way to rediscover UTD. The series, titled...

I've been a student reporter for five years now, yet as I read through Neil Henry's "American Carnival: Journalism under siege in the age of new media" a humbling realization dawned upon me. For someone...

When I first walked into the Baylor Lariat's newsroom my sophomore year, I was worried because I didn't know what I was doing. I think I spent a good portion of my first semester wondering if someone had...

One of my best friends loves to travel. The first time she went to study abroad in Europe, she sent me a postcard detailing her adventures. Since then, I've amassed a collection of postcards filled with...

There is a strange fever that is widespread in tropical countries around this time of the year. It comes with the chills every evening and a high temperature, takes away the desire to eat and is accompanied...

My love affair with New York style delis is nothing new. In fact, my high school graduation dinner was even celebrated at Katz's in Houston. When I moved here there was a moment of panic because I didn’t...

This past weekend, I was having dinner and catching up with some of my old high school friends. At one point in the night, one of my friends looked at me and said, "Linda I don't know how you have time...

If you haven’t kept up with world news, and most of us haven’t because the semester’s winding up and all hell is breaking loose, then you don’t know about the 5,000 immigrants who’re living in...

This past weekend, UTD Student Media went to San Antonio for the second year in a row to attend the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association, or TIPA, conference. For many in our group, this was a repeat...

After several conferences and billions of dollars spent on pollution and other problems, we are in a worse environmental state than we were 25 years ago. No doubt, a lot of it is just big boys with their...

As the UTD TV News Director, I spend a lot of time in the student media office reading other news publications, sitting in meetings about how to improve the organization and doing my research to understand...

Shared economies are strange creations of a post-recession market. People are letting strangers live in their homes and driving unknown, drunk 21-year-olds in their cars after working 15-hour days, all...