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Gianna Horcher | Senior Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Your guide to getting off the ‘no kiss’ list

Analise Bruno February 18, 2025
Let me tell you a secret: no matter how sexually confident someone comes across  — and no matter how many people they’ve kissed or hooked up with — deep down, most of us are all experiencing one major feeling — doubt.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Senior Graphic Artist

Where to now?

Michelle Tian May 3, 2023
I hate goodbyes. I hate the weight it represents, the sadness it carries and the message others get from it. In many cases, goodbyes are things to celebrate. Goodbyes mean we’re moving on to something greater, something better
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: The ‘State of the University’ at the end of the spring semester

Editors April 28, 2022
With this spring semester now drawing to a close, The Daily Free Press editorial board took a step back to evaluate the “State of the University” and look back on some of the issues and events that have shaped life at Boston University in what is — arguably — the first post-pandemic semester.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Boston University’s new pandemic policies are not cutting it

Editors September 2, 2021
Boston University’s new pandemic measures place too much emphasis on student responsibility rather than institutional measures designed to keep students, faculty and service workers safe.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Summer Orientation should better promote social connection, ease new student jitters

Editors April 12, 2021
Orientation should be less focused on talking at you and more about connection and exploration.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Journalists don’t need to go to college to study journalism, but it provides an advantage

Editors March 1, 2021
Should journalists go to college? The answer is: maybe. It’s an individual choice, but there will unfortunately always be an advantage to higher education.
With the COVID-19 pandemic upending the lives of many, the mental health of students takes a hit. ILLUSTRATION BY SARAH SILBIGER/DFP FILE

COVID-19 affects stress levels among students

Daily Free Press Staff September 24, 2020
Students are not getting the expected college experience, but the result of an increasingly dystopian world. Amid the pandemic, students' academic performance and general well-being are threatened.
Colbi Edmonds

Culture Shock: College isn’t always like the movies

Colbi Edmonds June 12, 2020
College is typically not how the media portrays it. It’s not a seamless transition into adulthood with an alternative soundtrack playing in the background.
Meredith Varner

The Next Four Years: The lessons you aren’t expecting to learn

Meredith Varner June 12, 2020
As I head into my senior year, I now realize I learned and experienced so much that I never would have expected as an incoming freshman.

VALLUVAR: A semester in Boston from a Singaporean’s perspective

Revathi Valluvar September 28, 2016

I landed in the Boston Logan International Airport on a cool Monday evening in August after 23 hours of flying. It was 23 degrees celsius, and the sun was bleeding into the sky in hues of orange and red....

MINTZ: Lessons Learned

MINTZ: Lessons Learned

Casey Mintz December 11, 2014

Well, I did it. I actually managed to get through my first semester of college mostly unscathed. In just a few days, I’ll be on a plane back to south Florida, not worrying about homework or how many...

SMITH: Here’s to 28

Daily Free Press Admin February 25, 2013

There’s nothing in the world riper for fictional portrayal, for fictional adulation, than the American college experience. Whether it’s the classic National Lampoon comedy Animal House, a more serious...

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