Farewell Columns

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Farewell Column: 14 minutes and 35 seconds.

By Aiko Rachel Peterson | May 1

"Herein lies the conclusion of my time at the DTH and my farewell column. As the last day of classes approaches, I can feel my time here slipping through my fingers."

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Farewell Column: Goodnight, Daily Tar Heel

By Kennedy Cox | May 1

"It’s going to be hard for me to let go, but I know that I’ll be leaving this newsroom and this school with something to show for myself and with an impact on others."

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Farewell column: When it all sinks in

By Ethan E. Horton | May 1

"Sooner or later, it’ll sink in that this might be among the most fulfilling things I’ll ever do and that it’s surely all downhill from here."

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Farewell Column: Figuring out how to build a trinket garden

By Emi Maerz and Eliza Benbow | May 1

"It started with a mini bubble gum machine, a disco ball and a small green stegosaurus. They were the seeds of our trinket garden, and physical representations of our main goal: to make the newly-minted Lifestyle desk fun and eclectic."

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Farewell Column: Buy-in to The Daily Tar Heel

By Carson Elm-Picard | May 1

"I owe so much to The Daily Tar Heel. It allowed me to establish myself professionally while immersing myself in my community in a way unlike any other."

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Farewell Column: I am not an editor

By Makayla Key | May 1

"I know that I have created memories, safe spaces, and planted seeds for the people that come after me to thrive and make the DTH a better place.""

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Farewell column: 'By Liv Reilly' and goodbye from Liv Reilly

By Liv Reilly | May 1

"While it’s finally time to finish out my years at the newsroom, I can’t seem to find a way to finish up this column. How to wrap up three years of bylines and dozens of bell dings that ring through the office after print is submitted."

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Farewell Column: Goodbye, DTH. Thanks for the ride.

By Adrian Tillman | May 1

"Putting dozens of college students in a room together for hours on end guarantees you’ll hear some great music — some you know, some you’ve never heard of before."

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Farewell Column: Advice to Future DTHers

By Lucas Thomae | May 1

"I never liked farewell columns when I was at The Daily Tar Heel. They always seemed too self indulgent — no offense to my wonderful peers that have written plenty of these over the years — considering that most of our readers don’t know or care about who is producing the news they read."

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Farewell Column: Starting a legacy

By Lara Crochik | May 1

"The job hasn’t been perfect, and as my friends know, my hours are irregular and my weekends have been filled with sports — but I wouldn’t change it for the world."

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Farewell Column: We were all made to leave

By Olivia Goodson | April 30

"Everyone in the DTH office has taught me something. I barely knew how to get to the office before I was an editor, and now walking in feels like home."

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Farewell Column: My complicated relationship with the DTH

By Heidi Pérez-Moreno | May 7

"The very structure of The Daily Tar Heel makes it hard to actually be part of this newsroom if you don’t have the financial stability to handle below-average pay for the sake of altruistic, hard-earned journalism experience. I can count on one hand the amount of DTH editors over my two years that could relate to my situation."

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Farewell Column: For my UNC neighborhood

By Olivia Rojas | May 7

"To all my DTH friends and family, thank you for being a part of my neighborhood."

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Farewell Column: Gotta spend time to make time

By Guillermo Molero | April 27

"The time I spent in the newsroom all these days, weeks and lives wasn’t just for the paper. It was for them. I was spending time with my friends. With my family."

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Farewell Column: Hope beyond those long news days

By Preston Fore | April 27

"And while some days in news — well, actually a lot of days — are long and tiresome, working with many talented and wonderful people at the DTH has given me hope for the future of journalism and the world."

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Farewell Column: The DTH doesn’t love me back

By Hannah Collett | April 27

"I love the DTH so much that I wanted to let it break me. If we’re being honest, I might have let it do that already."

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Farewell Column: I'm going to sleep

By Ira Wilder | April 27

"I’m the first to leave every party I go to. My bed and I have a passionate affair that I refuse to cut short in the name of social graces. I always know when to say my goodbyes. And while I’m not a senior, it’s time I say goodbye to The Daily Tar Heel."

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Farewell Column: It's 3 a.m. and I can't think of a good headline

By Allie Kelly | April 27

"The Daily Tar Heel has made me endlessly grateful for mornings. The 3 a.m. variety. "

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Farewell Column: A season of lessons

By Clay Morris | April 27

"So, when the opportunity arose, I applied to become the diversity, equity and inclusion chairperson at the paper. I didn’t seek the position assuming I could rewrite the DTH’s legacy in one to two years. (After all, it is the campus paper of a University built by slaves.) Instead, I sought the position because I felt like I would at least be honest with the newsroom about its issues, if nothing else."

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Farewell Column: Farewell, home of 'Elise-isms'

By Elise Trexler | April 27

"When I connect with people — especially in the journalism world — I find those connections unbreakable. There’s some special sauce that we all share that makes us crazy enough to enjoy working insane hours and Slacking during class – and I think that sauce is delicious."