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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Feeling frazzled: Bridget Jones and the dreaded ’30’ | Mad Women

Hailey Pitcher January 29, 2024
"Bridget Jones's Diary" portrays a 32-year-old "spinster's" quest for love, but should women feel pressured to have their life together before the dreaded "30?"
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

‘Triangle of Sadness’ — Simply funny | Picture This

Ariadna Sandoval March 29, 2023
“Triangle of Sadness” proves the magic of simplicity.
Brett Abrams | Graphic Artist

Lacking self-awareness is alarmingly profitable | Cultspiracy

Kim Schneider February 17, 2023
Dunning-Kruger lending itself to success may seem surprising at first, but with the growth of social media and the inherently selfish structure of capitalism (or human nature?), maybe it just makes sense.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

What is fascism? | Hard Right Turn

Nathan Metcalf January 30, 2023
In the United States, a superpower in its twilight days, the specter of fascism looms. 
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

In A Word: “Do what you love” mantra perpetuates the exploitation of disadvantaged identities

Kim Schneider March 14, 2022
In bubbles of privilege, it’s too easy to forget that doing what you love presupposes the freedom to choose what to do.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Critical Eye: The reality of our dreams

Sarah Goodman February 8, 2022
The concept of “dreams” reveals itself in our language of discourse as an entity of pleasurable and spectacular ideal, of which our attempted realization of the dream’s perfection is, at best, delusion. Its use as a figurative speech and in symbolism does not make it explicit on what it is.
Moneta Ota / DFP Staff

Bubble Burst: Sexual assault accusations go beyond getting canceled

Lydia Evans January 28, 2022
Sexual assault is inexcusable. While actions such as bullying, lying, or cultural insensitivity are not any more valid, people must understand the difference between another case of a canceled influencer and the detrimental and severe effects crimes like sexual assault have beyond the screen.
Sophia Flissler / DFP Staff

Let Your Hair Down: The pressure to succeed pollutes our creativity

Hannah Bohn November 16, 2021
In a society that overly incentivizes success in the form of monetary value, creativity and expression often falls by the wayside.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Let Your Hair Down: A society obsessed with aging

Hannah Bohn November 3, 2021
Society has a compulsive fixation on youthfulness, but to what end?
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The internet has broken my brain

Annie Sheehan October 14, 2021
I wonder how much of what I think and believe is coming from me anymore.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Let Your Hair Down: Lessons to carry with us from the pandemic as we return back to regular life

Hannah Bohn September 13, 2021
The events of the past year forced us not only to be accountable for our own health, but also for the safety of others.
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