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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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EDITORIAL: Returning to in-person classes may invite new anxieties, but will undoubtedly help stabilize our lives

Editors April 29, 2021

If you’re on campus at Boston University and witnessing the city’s slow transition into spring — barring unpredictable Boston weather — the news of in-person classes and Commencement has arrived...

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Moving Forward: Acknowledging your humanity and feeling unpleasant emotions

Divya Sood April 12, 2021
Our feelings are neither solely good nor bad, but they are essential to our existence as human beings.
zinneken's food truck on commonwealth avenue

Boston food trucks take to the streets after a difficult 2020

Daniel Kool April 6, 2021
Thirty vendors participated virtually in the City’s 2021 Food Truck Lottery in March.
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A Room With a View: Being forgetful is healthy

Antonia Lehnert March 8, 2021
When Nietzsche wrote, “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders,” his aim was not to portray all forgetfulness as bliss, but rather to encourage a healthier relationship with our past and our memory.
Boston University’s College of General Studies. After arriving on campus in January, CGS students await news of the Summer 2021 London program. LAURYN ALLEN/ DFP FILE

CGS Class of 2024 ponders effects of COVID-19 on London program

Amanda Cappelli February 11, 2021
Awaiting a decision about the annual London summer program, which was remote due to COVID-19 for students last year, CGS Class of 2024 students reflect on their hopes and concerns for the semester.
Joel Herbert

Diamonds and Rust: Taking Not Taking Yourself Seriously, Seriously

Joel Herbert September 20, 2020
We either take ourselves way too seriously or not seriously enough, and we have that very typical human quality of assuming that whatever works best for us will work best for everyone else.
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