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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

When you have no calling — and maybe that’s okay

Chloe Saint Mard March 31, 2025
At the end of the day, maybe your passion could simply be creating a life that feels agreeable to you, and that doesn't have to take place in your career. 
CareYaya website. CareYaya is a healthcare startup that employs pre-health college students to provide care for elderly people in Boston. MOLLY POTTER/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

From campus to care: How this startup helps college students become caregivers

Irene Skandalakis February 15, 2024
CareYaya, a North Carolina healthcare startup founded in 2021, recently came to Boston to match families with caregivers in the community who are college students.
The South Entrance to the Global Programs office. Many pre-med students find it difficult to fit a study abroad experience into their academic curriculum. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Pre-med students face unique study abroad challenges

Corinne Davidson November 17, 2023
Every prospective student at Boston University gets the same study abroad spiel. There’s something for everyone, a tour guide says walking backwards along Bay State Road. 
Verde PRLan

BU students spearhead public relations campaign for medical apparel brand

Hailey Pitcher December 1, 2022
A PRLab team worked with the founders of VERDE, which makes sustainable scrubs.
Terrier Hockey Talk: May 18, 2021

Terrier Hockey Talk: May 18, 2021

Caroline Fernandez May 18, 2021

This week on Terrier Hockey Talk, the Boston Hockey Blog is joined by BU Women's Ice Hockey blueliner Julia Shaunessy to discuss her career. Shaunessy talks adjusting to pandemic-era hockey as a...

Lena Papadakis, a pre-medical senior in Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, founded Preemie to Pre-Med, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting child life departments in New England hospitals. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Sargent student’s childhood hospitalization leads her to launch nonprofit

Cameron Morsberger November 3, 2020
Lena Papadakis was born 32 weeks premature. But out of this distress, she is now giving back to the very programs that saved her life.
Students began registering for a revised MCAT Wednesday which will be a longer test with more emphasis on social sciences. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY OLEG TEPLYUK/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Revamped MCAT goes down with spoonful of social science

Sonia Rao February 12, 2015

As of Wednesday, pre-medical students across the nation will be able to register for the revised edition of the MCAT, the medical college admission test, which will be administered in April. For the...

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