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The Daily Free Press

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Happiness is an inside job | The Hard Pills We Hate to Swallow

Breanna Pham April 8, 2025

A friend once shared something that hit home: “You can’t expect to be happy in a relationship until you’re happy with yourself.”  This truth was hard to swallow.  For years, I searched...

Grace Lodewick | Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (Or Analise): No more silver springs — how to let go and move on from your ex

Analise Bruno March 30, 2025
Enter the half-joke, half-serious concept of “silver springing” someone. It’s the idea that you and all the love you bring with you are unforgettable — like a ghost that will eternally haunt them.
Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Are all men really trash?

Analise Bruno March 2, 2025
I’m kidding, but it's important to remember why we sometimes make generalizations as a society. Not all bees will sting you, but still we’re scared of bees. We don’t say, “only some bees will sting you”  because that’s a given — it’s redundant. In that same way, no one really means all men are trash. Not all men are the same as Mr. Big.
Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Crushing It in class without crashing and burning

Analise Bruno February 9, 2025
Having a class crush is far more interesting but even more challenging in college than in high school. My roommates used to joke that the first day of class was always a big game of smash or pass. 
Annika Morris | Graphic Artist

The internet’s unfortunate idolization of Gypsy Rose Blanchard | Editorial

Editors January 22, 2024
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was met with online support after being released from prison for the murder of her abusive mother. While her crime can be absolved, can Gen Z's "unseriousness?"
Yvonne Tang

Burning Out: The consequences of being ‘relatable’

Yvonne Tang March 15, 2021
As we collectively exit this pandemic, I hope we can recognize that relatability has become a shallow concept.
Some Boston University students have experienced anti-Asian racism on and off campus, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. THALIA LAUZON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU International students discuss personal identity in the US

Rachel Do February 4, 2021
While the United States prides itself on its cultural “melting pot,” some international students at Boston University said they can still feel as if they don’t belong.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: Context clues and Trump’s disease-ridden body

Bini Ollivier-Yamin October 7, 2020
I’ll admit, it is rather harsh to wish death on another human being. But it is also rather harsh, and rather stupid, to pretend context doesn’t matter.
American Protest: Gay jokes are not funny, Mr. President

American Protest: Gay jokes are not funny, Mr. President

Meredith Varner October 22, 2017

When I logged into Twitter this week and saw an endless stream of tweets in regards to our president, I simply thought, “What did he do now?” It’s a sad reality, but I am growing accustomed to...

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