Melissa Boberg

Melissa Boberg is an undergraduate student, studying English and Philosophy at Boston University. She is passionate about writing, astrology, and Great British Baking Show. You can find her on Instag

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The Socially Mandated Selfishness of Your 20s: Socioeconomic Status, Exploitation, Empathy, and Care

I am not a statistician, but I would bet that you’d be hard-pressed to find any college student who has not heard the cliché “your college years are the best four years of your life.” Even though this advice seems easily ignorable given the relative circumstances of individual life,

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The Shape-Shifting Body: On Beauty Standards, the Male Gaze, and Lizzo

I was once told that I had a face on which every feature could be the most prominent, depending on which one you looked at. At first, this answer seemed like a cop-out to the question that had prompted it: “What do you see as my most noticeable feature?”. But,