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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Graduates laugh and wave to the crowd at BU’s commencement ceremony. CLARE ONG/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

GALLERY: Graduates celebrate, protest at 2024 commencement

Clare Ong May 28, 2024
Boston University held its 151st All-University Commencement on May 19 at Nickerson Field.
Farah Delgado

Obituary: Boston University student Farah Delgado remembered for kindness, selflessness

Jesús Marrero Suárez August 14, 2021
Delgado, a student in Sargent, died on July 31 at 21 years old. She is remembered for her passion for public health, her deep love for her family, her unique laugh and her kindness.
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White Massachusetts residents more than twice as likely to own a business than Black, Latinx residents

Anna Stjernquist March 31, 2021
Less than half a percent of Boston’s 2014-2019 contract spending went to Black-owned business.
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A Room With a View: What do you want to do with your life?

Antonia Lehnert February 16, 2021
Most fresh graduates feel they are drowning in a sea of indecision and distress. In reality, the sea is only a pool, and all of our peers are also trying to keep their heads above water.
Alexia Nizhny

Sincerely, Ally: LinkedIn promotes a competitive, sometimes negative online culture

Alexia Nizhny September 24, 2020
LinkedIn shares the same features of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter — timelines, chat boxes and status updates. Yet despite its large number of users, LinkedIn has somehow avoided controversy regarding the toxic online culture it perpetuates.

EDIT: From Bachelor’s Degree to file clerk

Daily Free Press Admin February 21, 2013

It’s been said that you can work your way up in a corporation, or any workplace for that matter: Start low, work hard, get noticed, and then get promoted. That’s the general process. So at first it...

Employers favor BU grads over NYU, Brown, survey says

Daily Free Press Admin October 28, 2012

Boston University students are the seventeenth most employable graduates internationally, according to a survey published by The New York Times Thursday. According to the survey, “Ideal Young Graduates,”...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells BU grads to solve world’s problems through technology, innovation

Daily Free Press Admin May 20, 2012

Standing before Boston University’s Class of 2012, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told graduates although the economy is not good, they have a competitive edge. “You have an innate mastery of technology,...

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