For those who decide to go on vacations, it's exciting to travel with new friends and explore new destinations on a college student's budget.
This “budget” often includes cheap flights to affordable locations. Unfortunately, our itineraries have lasting effects that we as tourists often don’t take into consideration—ones that are not plain and simple.
In your hometown, you can’t even go to the grocery store without running into someone who knows your mom. But on spring break? You’re just another face in the crowd of frat bros, beach bums and vacationers who will never cross your path again. What happens on the beach stays on the beach — or so they tell themselves.
Playing the long game with climate change politics can be rough, but it might also be our only solution. As cliché as it sounds, some climate action is better than none.
Societal pressures plague us all the time, especially in the age of the internet where everything is documented and publicized — can’t we have one day a year off?
Culture shock is inevitable and is a crucial rite of passage when entering a new environment. Values, norms, standards, and expectations vary from place to place, and while they can sometimes be hard to adapt to, they are critical components to finding your way.
The need for comfort makes sense because when something is over or lost, we try to fill that space with something soothing. It is a defense for us — turning inward to something we know, instead of living in the loss and the unknown.
From wildfires scorching everything west of the Rocky Mountains to rapidly rising sea levels threatening to engulf the eastern seaboard — it’s become increasingly clear to climate scientists, policymakers and observant people alike that climate change has begun affecting everyone, everywhere, in the here and now.
The Boston City Council met Wednesday and discussed plans to increase the number of liquor licenses while separately restricting the sale of miniature alcohol bottles.
Twenty electric school buses will go into commission for Boston Public Schools on Feb. 27, Mayor Michell Wu announced last Monday, a move towards green transportation that the city said follows in its commitment to the Green New Deal.
Prioritizing sustainability could not only cement BU’s place as a pillar of environmental protection, but actually make a tangible difference throughout the world.
