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“MADE” Meets BU

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Between Tuesday and Wednesday this past week, 50 Boston University students auditioned for their chance to be “made” into something. In the past, typically pubescent teens signed on to star [...]

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Feb 10, 2012 | Leave a response

tweetcreep

BU TweetCreep: February 5th – February 10th

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This TweetCreep is a desperate plea to the BU community: Please stop making memes. Please stop making Shit ____ Say videos. PLEASE. Yes, some of them are funny. Some of [...]

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Feb 10, 2012 | Leave a response

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Feel the Love: Fun Fashion For the Single and the Attached This V-Day

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Red and pink hearts. Heart-shaped boxes of chocolates. Aggressively marketed lingerie. Yes, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, spawning obnoxiously romantic ads for diamonds and a flurry of sappy [...]

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Feb 10, 2012 | Leave a response

BU Memes

Meme Mania! BU Memes Makes a Splash on the Web

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Odds are that any college student has encountered a meme while Internet-surfing. Some of these images, such as Scumbag Steve, Forever Alone, Good Guy Greg, and Success Kid, have reached [...]

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Feb 9, 2012 | Leave a response

Sh*t Nobody Says at BU

“Sh*t Nobody Says at BU” Goes Viral

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This past week, the YouTube video “Sh*t Nobody Says at BU” went viral across the BU campus, getting passed around like a note during class via Facebook and Twitter. With [...]

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Feb 6, 2012 | Leave a response

This is an evil labyrinth, but there isn't even any David Bowie. Come on, BU. | Screenshot by Allan Lasser

Boston University’s Buried Techno Treasures

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A short look at the web services BU provides to students yet are hidden within the bu.edu/tech webpage.

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Feb 6, 2012 | Leave a response

Let's talk football, people. | Image courtesy The U.S. National Archive

The Quad’s Superbowl Superblog (Formerly Live)

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Welcome to the BU Quad’s live blog of the Super Bowl. As our wonderful host (and die-hard Pats fan) , Julia Butler has put it, “It is Armagedeon.” The match-up–New [...]

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Feb 5, 2012 | Leave a response

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BU TweetCreep: January 29th – February 3rd

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Well… hopefully this TweetCreep gets out to the public. Or perhaps the movie Groundhog Day will serve as a premonition and I will spend the rest of my life hunting [...]

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Feb 3, 2012 | Leave a response

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Fem Co: A Feminist Force to Be Reckoned With

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This past Monday night, students of Boston University gathered in the Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism for this semester’s first meeting of Fem Co. Fem Co is short for [...]

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Feb 2, 2012 | Leave a response

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A$AP Rocky: Live at the Middle East

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Few rap artists in recent memory have utilized social media and the “blogosphere” music mediums as successfully as Harlem-based A$AP Rocky, whose real name (rather prophetically) is Rakim Mayers. Since [...]

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Jan 31, 2012 | Leave a response

Newt Gingrich and current wife/former mistress, Callista. | Photo courtesy Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

The Personal Misdeeds of Public Figures: An Immoral Story

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“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” The 1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal irreparably damaged President Bill Clinton’s image as a faithful family man. Despite this, Clinton’s approval rating [...]

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Jan 30, 2012 | Leave a response

FitRec

Orienting to FitRec: A Dummy’s Guide to FitRec and Scary Gym People

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Orienting to BU Fitrec is a series one-time post aiming to help the Class of 2015 gym newbies in the sometimes bumpy transition from high school to Boston University the couch to Fitrec.  Boston University’s Fitness and [...]

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Jan 29, 2012 | 1 Response