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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Happiness is an inside job | The Hard Pills We Hate to Swallow

Breanna Pham April 8, 2025

A friend once shared something that hit home: “You can’t expect to be happy in a relationship until you’re happy with yourself.”  This truth was hard to swallow.  For years, I searched...

Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

The language of flowers

Isabella Panichi April 2, 2025
Sometimes the occasion for giving flowers is just because — just because you love someone, just because you were thinking of them or just because you’re there. 
Shanzah Rafiqi | Graphic Artist

Austin the avocado: The Woody of my very own “Toy Story”

Montsy Subiros March 19, 2024
My best friend, who resides in Canada, had sent a package and I haphazardly opened it. I thought some crystals or homemade slime would be inside. To my surprise, I was met eye-to-eye with a green, medium-sized stuffed avocado named Austin. Little did my friend know, he would give me my childhood years back.
WILSHERE: Stand up for yourself

WILSHERE: Stand up for yourself

Meredith Wilshere April 12, 2017

In a world filled with scary names to veil bad dating behaviors like gaslighting, zombie-ing and ghosting, sometimes it can be hard to find a voice among the monsters. Standing up for yourself in the face...

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