Earlier this summer, a dangerous heat dome settled over Chicago — pushing heat indexes past 110°F. The city now faces a mounting public health emergency. This isn’t just a seasonal inconvenience;...
For most of my life, I was afraid to be caught caring. I tried too hard in school, obsessed over my favorite celebrities, and knew too much about current events. In high school, I was...
The Daily isn’t a place where you’re allowed to take a break. This was the general sentiment I heard from people coming into my freshman year: you’ll stay up until 6 a.m. to lay...
If I had got $10 for every time someone asked me “Isn’t journalism a dying industry?”, I'd probably make more money than I did at my previous internship. And I think the...
My first article for The Daily took me approximately four whole days to finish. My pitch was to write a simple 600-word piece on the midseason March Madness odds for the Men’s...
You may have heard the advice to have three spaces: one for work, one for home, and one for community. At the beginning of college, I felt like I only had one, really huge space: I...
I have a confession to make. From late 2021 through the spring of 2023 (and including a brief stint in the spring of 2024), I consumed hundreds of Dum-Dums™ lollipops from The...
I remember the time I published my first story in The Daily. After timidly approaching a shopper and the owner of a boutique store in downtown Evanston, I wrote up a visuals-dense,...
Slow down, you’re doing fine. It’s hard to believe those Billy Joel words to be true. I mean what would he know about being a college student trying to get a job in this economy? Although...
I hate change. Routines are my comfort zone. When they’re upended, and I’m thrust out of the confined box I’ve created for myself, I automatically feel a sense of dread and...
If you’ve worked at The Daily, you’re no stranger to being told “no.” Odds are, you’ve interviewed a random person on the street about a serious topic, been asked to put down...
When I was a baby reporter, I was shocked to learn The Daily — which delivers incredible community reporting — is made entirely of a group of (well-trained) college students hooked...
Why Northwestern? When people ask me this question, I think back to the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. My mom asked me if I wanted to watch “Spotlight,” a...
I spent much of my first two years of college in a windowless room on the third floor of the Norris University Center, where The Daily’s newsroom meets. There, I interviewed sources...
Most Northwestern students don’t bat an eye at the stately brick building on Ridge Avenue between Simpson and Noyes. But by the time I moved to my off-campus house directly across...
I didn’t plan it this way, but I’ve spent most of my time at The Daily writing about numbers. So, true to form, I’ll start there. I’ve been involved in the paper for nine...
