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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Situationship survival guide: Lessons in love, loss and letting go | The Hard Pills We Hate to Swallow

Breanna Pham March 25, 2025
The way of surviving life and situationships is that you have to know that you can’t control someone’s thoughts or actions — you can only control your own. Here are just a few tidbits of advice and lessons I’ve learned that have helped me navigate my experiences with situationships. 
Gianna Horcher | Graphic Artist

Cozy tunes to keep you warm this winter | Liv Listens

Olivia Stapleton January 30, 2025
I curated a playlist of songs that make me feel warm, anticipating that I’d need some soothing music to help me get through the next few months of cold temperatures. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (or Analise): Love on autopilot — the dangers of getting too comfortable with your relationship

Analise Bruno October 20, 2024
Dear Abby: I feel like my boyfriend doesn’t love me anymore, or at least he doesn’t love being around me. We’ve been together for some time now, and he treats me totally differently than when we first met. We don’t even go on dates anymore. What is going on?
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.
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?
Max Ferrandino

Politics Philosophized: Can you be moral in today’s society?

Max Ferrandino October 4, 2020
Trying to be a moral or kind person is often not defined by only yourself. The authority figures in your life, and society as a whole, define your morals.
VALLUVAR: Beauty is arbitrary, varies from culture to culture

VALLUVAR: Beauty is arbitrary, varies from culture to culture

Revathi Valluvar November 2, 2016

It has been nine weeks since I first arrived in America, and it is still incredibly disorienting to me when people describe height in feet and speed in miles per hour. People still honk because I am looking...

LETTER: Best colleges

Daily Free Press Admin September 16, 2013

Love or hate them – and there’s usually no middle ground —  the U.S. News and World Report rankings are a big deal in higher education. So, congratulations for BU for their placement at spot 41...

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