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West Coast, Best Coast?
Now that I, a native Bostonian, have been out in Los Angeles for a month or so, I think I can offer a fair and (somewhat) impartial opinion on which coast is truly superior. I took a few different factors into account and this is what I’ve found out. City…
AdLab Kicks Off the Semester with Creative Shootout
Boston University AdLab, the country’s largest accredited student-run agency, has begun another semester at full speed. The creative shootout was the first challenge students faced this school year: an exercise in developing a quick brief into a well-rounded campaign in just a little more than a week. Every semester, the…
Five Hours East: Rain and Shine in Brighton
During my second weekend in the UK, I went on group trip to Brighton. The day did not start out well for me. I woke up roughly 20 minutes before the bus left, and it was about a 15-minute walk to the departure point. I had to run through some…
September Research Colloquium: Dr. Lindsey Decker’s Hybrid Horrors
On September 27, 2018, Dr. Lindsey Decker, a Film & Television professor at Boston University’s College of Communication, presented her dissertation, Hybrid Horrors: Transnationalism, Film Culture, and British Horror Cinema of the 2000s, to the school’s faculty and students. Decker was a BU Film & Television graduate student herself, with a passion…
From Boston to Buckingham: The Road Less Traveled
I hadn’t originally planned on taking the trip to Wales that Boston University runs for its study abroad students through a company called Preseli Venture. However, when tickets sold out within a day, I was quietly disappointed. As a self-proclaimed hiking junkie, I realized that the trip would have been…
Five Hours East: A Weekend Spent Eastbound
For my first weekend in London, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks to social media, it can be pretty easy to get suggestions for activities, food, and Instagram-able sights. A few weeks before I crossed the pond, I stumbled across a video on Instagram of a cupcake…
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