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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

A little goes a long way: The effects of romanticization

Payton Renegar March 1, 2022
I am still learning how to face difficulties head-on while my dreams and aspirations remain intact.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Beautiful Boston — to romanticize or not?

Editors February 10, 2022
Every city has its good and bad aspects. If people choose to focus on the good, why should we stop them?
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Sincerely, Ally: Our romanticization of a simpler past forgets the beauty of the present

Alexia Nizhny February 23, 2021
Life isn’t a waiting game. I want to be able to look down at my 20-year-old self from the top of the staircase and admire her just as fondly as I do the young girl fishing with her grandfather in the Russian countryside. To do so, I have to stop spending each day waiting for the next one. With so much time left, what’s the rush?
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: Period pieces often glaze over a dark history

Max Ferrandino February 17, 2021
These period pieces should be taken with a grain of salt. While the clothes and houses may look pretty, unethically using and enslaving people certainly is not.
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