Protecting Friendships While Starting A New Relationship By Samantha Rosenberg I am so over feeling guilty when I start a new relationship. It’s a feeling that comes when I first meet someone: I start to think about them, realize I like them and will want to talk to my friends about it. A lot . It’s a consuming feeling—part of me feels like I’m betraying my friends by liking someone else and wanting to spend so much time with them. The beginning of a relationship is pure chao

Why Platonic Break-Ups Hurt So Much More than Romantic By Isabella Hobbs  Heartbreak is a universal feeling depicted in many forms of media: movies, tv shows, books and songs. We witness the tearful, rainy break up scene while mourning over a tub of ice cream, fantasizing of what could have been, and all the stages of grief that follow.  Many people have also experienced this pain in real life; the way it makes you question who you are anymore, how you’ve changed from the per

When Fear Starts Dressing Us   By Rhea El-Madhoun El-Yafi Graphic by Catarina Koehler Forget Vogue; the stock market has always been fashion’s most accurate trend forecaster. When times get tough, hemlines fall, palettes mute and luxury goes quiet.  Welcome to the return of recession chic, where conservatism isn’t just a political stance, it’s a look.  In the 1920s, economist George Taylor came up with the “hemline index,” which is the idea that skirt lengths rise when the ec

Let’s remember who thrift stores are for.  By Sophia Ong Photograph by Mia Bianco It’s difficult to be on social media and avoid the rapidly growing “thrift culture” being cultivated online.  Influencers stand in their sleek Los Angeles apartments and show off their bags upon bags of thrift store finds, and their voiceovers detail journeys to the Goodwill bins where they describe these “insane finds.” Not only am I a consumer of this kind of content, but I’m also a consumer o

Not sponsored — rather, questioning campus fashion. By Lheeya Jayasudha Mathivanan  Photograph by Tsega Seleshi With summer slipping away and denim shorts getting buried in my closet, I knew Boston’s cold was creeping in. Out came the puffers and the UGGs, ready to dominate winter fashion. Comm Ave, after all, doubles as the campus runway, with each season debuting a new collection.  The winter is no exception to this, and there is one jacket that dominates the BU show: the C

How nepo-babies are a window into all the things we want but can’t have. By Sofia Galarneau Image by Diya Kapoor From Romy Mars to Hailey...

Social Media Once Represented Us; Now It Only Rejects Us  By Samantha Rosenberg  Photograph by Hannah Sender I love Instagram; I won’t...

How Content Creation is Creating a Lasting Digital Footprint by Isabella Hobbs Graphic by Ian Nugent If you were to scroll on social...

It just means you’ve changed, and that’s a good thing.  by Gabriella Di Dea Image by Tomoki Narukawa I have another confession: I don’t...

Parasocial Relationships & The Democratization of Fame: Is Rejecting Attention the Key to Survival? by Gisella Zerlotti Image by...