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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Screen Time is a vice in a tech-obsessed society | Virtues and Vices

Anna Welsh February 28, 2024
I open my settings app to Screen Time. four hours and two minutes, it reads. Yet as I count the individual app usage — one hour and 12 minutes on Messages, 36 minutes on Instagram, 27 minutes on Safari, 10 minutes on Gmail — I see that something does not add up … literally.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (or Analise): Talk to you later! Or never?

Analise Bruno October 30, 2023
Dear Abby: Help! I don’t know if this boy likes me. We’ve gone out a few times but he’s a really dry texter, and it takes him a while to respond to my messages and calls. I don’t want to seem needy and obsessive, but what do I do?!
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Beauty is now in the AI of the beholder | Tough Love

Analise Bruno October 3, 2023
With the advancement of artificial intelligence, some AI generated beauty filters are becoming more and more popular. However, innovations like these might be doing more harm than good.
Brett Abrams | Graphic Artist

Digital note taking with Notability — leave the notebooks behind

Amber Morris March 21, 2023
Notability offered me a smooth transition from physical notebooks and mechanical pencils to having a digital binder of notes.
Lila Baltaxe | Graphic Artist

Should I buy headphones or earbuds? — Price and practicality

Isabella Lapriore March 3, 2023
With the market of headphones and earbuds constantly growing, the options seem endless. Each new launch seems to have more impressive features than the last.
Kacper Bazan / DFP Staff

Social Media Society: Stay skeptical about social media stories

Gabriela Romero April 22, 2022
Instead of opening up your preferred platform in the morning, make a habit of opening up a news application.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Social Media Society: Dear diary dumping

Gabriela Romero February 13, 2022
Having a safe space is positive, but it does not mean we should impulsively post without taking into account the plausible impacts. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Social Media Society: Social media makes screen time soar

Gabriela Romero January 30, 2022
The technologically reliant characters in the 2008 movie WALL-E may come to reflect reality rather than remaining the comical dramatizations they once were.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Let Your Hair Down: Our Dwindling Attention Spans

Hannah Bohn October 20, 2021
Our dependency on enhanced technology that maximizes productivity comes with a cost of dwindling attention spans.
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Three tips to a good night’s sleep

Annie Sheehan September 13, 2021
After a lot of trial and error, I've slowly found tricks that have helped me wind down at night.
Narek Sahakian / DFP Staff

A Room With a View: Tragedy overflow in calamitous times

Antonia Lehnert September 7, 2021
It is not our place to painstakingly empathize with grief that we could never even come close to understand.
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Screenshots: the weeds of the camera roll

Katherine Wright April 28, 2021
I let my camera roll run wild, and now it’s a chaotic mess of endless screenshots.
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