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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

The language of flowers

Isabella Panichi April 2, 2025
Sometimes the occasion for giving flowers is just because — just because you love someone, just because you were thinking of them or just because you’re there. 
Shanzah Rafiqi | Graphic Artist

Breaking the cardinal sin for book lovers: movie before the book

Lea Tran April 5, 2024
Next time you’re in a movie theater, don’t let the phrase “based on the book” scare you away from a fun movie experience.
Annika Morris | Graphic Artist

‘Twilight’ still holds up

Ayjia Stanford November 1, 2023
Since the genesis of my “Twilight” awakening, I have seen the film upwards of 10 times. I watched it most frequently as a kid, but for the past few years, it’s served as a welcomed respite from the stress of work and school, transporting me back to my childhood. So when I saw the Coolidge Corner Theater was showing “Twilight” on Oct. 19, I knew I had to go. 
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Harry Styles, Bad Art Friend, and fiction

Editors October 14, 2021
If pens are as mighty as surgical instruments, it is worth weighing their reference points.
film reels

Movies for every mood

Maya Frankel September 29, 2021
I hope these movie choices inspire you for your next movie night.
sam castiel and dean in supernatural

What’s up with unrealistic book romance?

Thalia Lauzon April 21, 2021
I can’t blame anyone for crushing on fictional boys, but I advise them to step back into reality.
Sophia Flissler/DFP STAFF

Canceled: The ‘Twilight’ Renaissance and cringe culture

Bini Ollivier-Yamin April 4, 2021
Guilt can ultimately be more productive than the defiance of embracing cringe culture.
WILSHERE: Love, loss and what I wrote

WILSHERE: Love, loss and what I wrote

Meredith Wilshere December 6, 2016

As someone who has kept a diary since her boy-crazy, “Twilight”-enthused middle school years, I have always been a person keen on reflection. As my column and this semester come to a close, I thought...

WILSHERE: Our ever-present pasts

WILSHERE: Our ever-present pasts

Meredith Wilshere October 12, 2016

We come to college to shed the versions of our past selves that have followed us throughout middle and high school. We are handed a new chance to start over, to become the person we always wanted others...

FREEBAIRN: Saying Goodbye to the Cinderella Story

FREEBAIRN: Saying Goodbye to the Cinderella Story

Mandy Freebairn March 26, 2015

By now, you’ve probably heard about Disney’s recent remake of the iconic “Cinderella” film. Originally popularized by Charles Perrault in the late 1600s, “Cinderella” is the quintessential...

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