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The Daily Free Press

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What I learned my freshman year — that no one told me

What I learned my freshman year — that no one told me

By Nino Machavariani April 24, 2025
The takeaway is that anxiety will always be there in some shape or form, but you can learn to work with it instead of fighting against it. Just be present with yourself and the situation at hand, even when things feel like they are about to fall apart every other week.
Emma Hart | Graphic Artist

Happiness is an inside job | The Hard Pills We Hate to Swallow

By Breanna Pham April 8, 2025

A friend once shared something that hit home: “You can’t expect to be happy in a relationship until you’re happy with yourself.”  This truth was hard to swallow.  For years, I searched...

Gianna Horcher | Senior Graphic Artist

Keys to joyful employment

By Sophia Keohane April 1, 2025
Say goodbye to the panicked version of me, searching for something I don’t want, and say hello to a girl who has a thing or two to say on joyful employment.
Iris Ren | Graphic Artist

Everyone’s going to law school

By Sophia Keohane October 17, 2024
My father has advised me to never, ever, become a lawyer. He’s been practicing law for 21 years, and that’s one of the biggest pieces of legal advice he has ever given to me and my little sister. It was one of those things he would state at a family dinner while we picked at potatoes and prayed for the ice cream our grandad got us. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

In A Word: Redefinition is the key to successful resolutions

By Kim Schneider February 4, 2022
I needed to make any resolutions malleable or else they’d crack under the pressure of expectation and stringency.
Embarrassing situations can have positive outcomes

Why embarrassing yourself is the key to success

By Kendall O’Brien December 2, 2021
Embarrassing yourself is a painful experience that can be your kickstart to success.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Moving Forward: Self-growth starts with self-love

By Divya Sood April 6, 2021
Be it a single affirmation or action step, one move can launch a life of limitless growth.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Let Your Hair Down: The changing nature of internships as we begin to exit the pandemic

By Hannah Bohn March 30, 2021
There is more to life than the steps we take to advance our careers and being students.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Burning Out: What’s a successful person? It’s you and me

By Yvonne Tang March 29, 2021
It’s important to evaluate our personal definitions of success and realize we’re already there.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Let Your Hair Down: What’s really going on when we procrastinate?

By Hannah Bohn March 16, 2021
Treating procrastination as a symptom of idleness is problematic and harmful. We have to stop stigmatizing procrastination and dig deeper into the underlying, neurological roots of what’s actually causing us to respond — or not — to our responsibilities.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: The commodification of age

By Max Ferrandino March 10, 2021
The perceived age of an actor or actress is important, not just for the viewer's entertainment but for the overall success of a TV show or movie. Fundamentally, age is not just a number — it’s a commodity. The younger you look, the more likely you are to be successful in Hollywood.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: College acceptances portrayed in adolescent media perpetuate a dangerous, unrealistic standard

By Editors March 8, 2021
A better depiction of college applications in the media would be showing a sincere reason for the character’s choice of school and a more personalized college search. If producers lead with characters’ genuine motivations rather than sticking with the tried and true big-name school, it will give way to a diversity of acceptances and more realistic representations on what college is truly like.
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