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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Luc Ljoka | Graphic Artist

Doctor’s Orders | Job Search

Luc Ljoka February 13, 2025
Dear Fishstick, do I have to come to therapy today?
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Two years past, two years coming, my whole life ahead

Amanda Brecher April 22, 2024
I think I'm having a mid-college crisis. In three weeks, I’ll be a junior. In three weeks, I’ll be halfway through my college experience. I haven’t been here nearly long enough to be at that point — or at least it doesn't feel like I have. I’ve barely begun to adjust to my life here. How can I be expected to start to think about what comes next? 
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Senior Graphic Artist

Is my time too expensive for my life? | Is it Just Me Or

Grace Donahue April 13, 2023
Treating time like something that should be used to maximize profit — both monetarily and career-wise — is not at all how we should be living.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

EDITORIAL: Where’d all the empathy go? — BU and its entitlement crisis

Editors March 27, 2023
There is something in the air at Boston University— and no, it is not the refreshing springtime aroma—but rather the pungent scent of entitlement seething from all four-corners of campus.
COVID-19 testing center employee lay offs

Laid off COVID-19 testing-site workers search for new jobs as surveillance testing ends

Fiona Broadie May 1, 2022
As COVID-19 surveillance testing comes to an end, testing site workers prepare to be laid off.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Burning Out: How to exploit your employees and get away with it

Yvonne Tang October 7, 2021
Passion — or general satisfaction — is not everything a human needs to survive, and it should be okay to admit that.
Alexia Nizhny / DFP Staff

Gaming the System: Sexist workplace culture in game development runs deep

Nick Speranza September 16, 2021
The culture within gaming companies needs to be overhauled, and the burden of fixing these issues rests on all of us. 
Alexia Nizhny / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Public infrastructure is more important than it seems

Editors September 14, 2021
It is worth asking how many accidents it will take for any significant progress to be made in public infrastructure?
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Let Your Hair Down: Lessons to carry with us from the pandemic as we return back to regular life

Hannah Bohn September 13, 2021
The events of the past year forced us not only to be accountable for our own health, but also for the safety of others.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Should we be dreaming of labor?

Editors September 7, 2021
It is difficult to parse the value labor should have in one’s life, but there is always going to be inherent value in simply being.
book talk at boston university on the lost orchard: the palestinian-arab citrus industry, 1850-1950

Authors reflect on the citrus industry in the Middle East for new book at BU event

Molly Farrar April 27, 2021
The new book was last of three events in the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies booktalk series.
construction worker walks across a steel beam

Janey announces programs aimed at tackling city contract inequity

Sam Trottenberg April 12, 2021
The new Boston Contracting Opportunity Fund will grant up to $15,000 to companies looking to bid.
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